La Fortuna is a glut with restaurant options, even if you had the desire and budget to sample them all, it would take a long time just to eat at each of them once, let alone enough times to really make an evaluation of the foods they have to offer. TripAdvisor is great for crowd-sourcing this kind of information, so I won’t get into too much detail on many restaurants.
However, while TripAdvisor does provide cost estimates on food, I wanted to give some advice about places that provide quality food, at prices that aren’t marked way up for tourists. I also like to recommend restaurants that I know the owners are good people. All the restaurants I recommend are small local businesses that support the local economy.
I have separated out the restaurants into their own posts since this post was getting a bit long. Click the links that follow to find out more:
For Pizza/Pasta check out Cafe Mediterraneo.
For Coffee and typical food check out Rain Forest Café & Restaurant.
For traditional wood fired Rotisserie Chicken and BBQ check out Pollo Fortueño.
For craft beer and pub food check out La Fortuna Pub.
Our restaurant recommendations:
What about your favorite “Soda” in Costa Rica? Personally, if I travel to a different city/country I want to be exposed to that culture’s food. From what I’ve heard that is a “soda” restaurant in the CR.
To be honest they pretty much all serve the same food. Rice, beans, and meat. It’s good to experience, but I recommend other stuff because while it’s representative of the culture, the culture is not known for it’s food.