Costa Rican Food

Who doesn’t love snacks? Yeison and I do and we loooove trying the local snacks whenever we travel abroad. It’s a ton of fun to browse the supermarkets seeing what interesting snacks the locals eat. In Costa Rica, there are a lot of snacks in the chips, crackers and cookies variety. In this post, I […]

Although Costa Ricans love their national beer, there isn’t a great variety. However, craft beer has grown immensely the past several years with many locals and foreigners creating unique beers in the country. If you’re interested in sampling Costa Rican craft beer, here are some of our favorites as well as recommendations for best places […]

Costa Rica’s favorable climate and fertile soil allows all sorts of fruits and vegetables to grow plentifully. Whether the fruit you see in Costa Rica is native or exotic, they are all worth trying! You will definitely get your fill of fresh Costa Rican fruit like papaya, watermelon and mango but make sure to check […]

Vegetarian food in Costa Rica is much more readily available than people think. Although much of the Costa Rican diet consists of meat as farming is a huge industry, vegetarian dishes are not hard to find. Despite not having a great number of dedicated vegan/vegetarian restaurants in Costa Rica, there are already a few vegetarian […]

If you’ve visited Costa Rica before, you most definitely have eaten gallo pinto, the traditional breakfast of the country. If you want to bring some pura vida to your kitchen, here is our Costa Rican gallo pinto recipe (given to us by Yeison’s brother). All the ingredients are easy to find: rice, beans, onion, cilantro […]