The food of Costa Rica
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These notes were made during a week long trip to Costa Rica. These are just our food experiences and you may have a totally different experience depending on your budget, where you travel and where you eat.
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Notes from February 2005
Bread products are available in most towns, but are usually sweet. Mussanni is a chain of bakery stores found all over Costa Rica. They sponsor one of the local triathletes! Also packaged corn chips are a common snack food everywhere.
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Some Costa Rican food (called 'Comidas') and drinks
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Casado - the word means 'marriage', but if you order this off the menu you will usually be served a mix of beans, rice, meat, cabbage salad and pasta.
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Gallo Pinto - the word means ´painted roster, but as food it is a mix of leftover rice and beans, and it is served with almost every meal.
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Frutus Bebidas - mixed fruit drinks served with agua (water) or leche (milk) and comes in a variety of tropical fruit flavours or mixto.
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Soda - this refers to a small locally run restaurant or cafe, always the place to eat if you are looking for an authentic Costa Rican meal.
Fruit Seller -
Vishnu - a chain vegetarian restaurant in Costa Rica, never seen elsewhere.
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mango salad - green mango slices served in a bag with a dash of salt, lime juice and sweet vinegar, this salad gives a real tang to the taste buds.
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guaro - a local alcoholic drink, apparently potent (although we only tried one I still felt the effects), it is light rum made from sugar cane, served as ´guaro sour´ with lime juice and sugar syrup, or as ´guaro gin´.
- Noni fruit - the magical cure all fruit juice in Australia, is just a normal fruit here in Central America, and found in most local market places.
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More Information
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read the food diary from other Central American countries: Honduras, Belize, Mexico , Nicaragua, Guatemala
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Travel Guide to Costa Rica
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