A traditional Costa Rican food guide to must-try dishes, regional flavors, dining customs, and what each meal reveals about everyday life in Costa Rica.
Pink Pineapples: What Makes Them Special?
Pink Pineapples stand out for their blush color, sweeter taste, and novelty appeal. Here’s what to know before you buy, taste, or grow one.
Tropical Treasures: Discovering Costa Rica’s Exotic Native Fruits
Costa Rica’s exotic fruits are some of the most colourful, flavour-packed and surprising foods travellers can discover. From roadside fruit stands to farmers’ markets and breakfast plates at jungle lodges, native and locally grown tropical fruits offer a delicious way...
Tropical Sips in Costa Rica: How to Make a Perfect Piña Colada and Cosmopolitan
What makes a Piña Colada in Costa Rica so special? The difference is the pineapple—locally grown, naturally sweet, and bursting with flavour. Costa Rica’s pineapples are among the sweetest in the world, which means your Piña Colada doesn’t need heavy sugar or...
What to Say in Costa Rica: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spanish for Travellers Wining & Dining
What to Say in Costa Rica: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spanish for Travellers Landing in Costa Rica is easy. Communicating as if you belong there? That’s where the fun begins. Whether you’re ordering a cold beer, asking for the bill, or trying to track down a taxi...
Blue Valley Chocolate Costa Rica: How Sustainable Cacao is Redefining Fine Chocolate
The Standard of Excellence in Sustainable Cacao: The Blue Valley Story The global chocolate industry is undergoing a significant shift. For decades, the gap between the farm and the final product was wide, obscured by complex supply chains and industrial processing....
Plantain Fritters: Crispy, Golden, and Full of Tropical Comfort
Plantain fritters are one of those dishes that feel generous from the very first bite. They are simple, affordable, and wildly satisfying: crisp at the edges, tender in the middle, and flexible enough to swing sweet or savoury depending on what you stir into the...
Five Iconic Costa Rican Dishes You Need to Try
Costa Rica’s food is not about flashy presentation or overcomplicated recipes. It is about comfort, balance, freshness, and the kind of meals that quietly win you over after the first bite. Across the country, from roadside sodas to family kitchens and bustling...
Eat Your Vegetables in Spanish: “Comer las verduras” and the Essential Words to Know
Learning food vocabulary is one of the easiest and most useful ways to build confidence in Spanish. Vegetables appear everywhere: in markets, on restaurant menus, in family kitchens, at roadside sodas, and in everyday conversation. When you know the names of common...
Golden Garden Cocktail
Ingredients A delightful cocktail made with Don Julio Tequila. This cocktail has a beautiful presentation and is just delishious. You will want another when you're done... Serves 1 • 1 ½ oz. Don Julio Reposado tequila • ¾ oz. Cointreau • 1 oz. lemon juice • ½ oz....
Don Rogelio in Cañas: the “leche dormida” stop Costa Ricans whisper about (and travellers brag about)
Don Rogelio Café in Cañas is best known today as the humble little soda shop where a single, almost mythical drink—la leche dormida (sleeping milk)—turned a family recipe into a local legend and a small town stop into a must-visit waypoint on the Pan-American Highway....
Pitahaya in Costa Rica: The Night-Blooming Cactus That Grows Dinner and Decor in One Plant
Pitahaya (dragon fruit) is the kind of plant that feels like a friendly prank by nature: a cactus that behaves like a jungle climber, throws out aerial roots like grappling hooks, and saves its biggest floral performance for the middle of the night. In Costa...