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Café Mundo Frommer's Highly Recommended

Calle 15 and Av. 9, San Jose

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Cuisine International
Hours Mon-Thurs 11am-11pm; Fri 11am-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight
Location 200m (2 blocks) east and 100m (1 block) north of the INS building, Downtown San José
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 2222-6190
Prices Main courses $5.50-$18 (£2.75-£9)
Credit Cards AE, MC, V

Café Mundo Review

This popular place mixes creative cuisine with an ambience of casual elegance. Wood tables and Art Deco wrought-iron chairs are spread spaciously around several rooms in this former colonial mansion. Additional seating can be had on the open-air front veranda and in the small gardens both front and back. The appetizers include vegetable tempura, crab cakes, and chicken satay alongside more traditional Tico standards such as patacones (fried plantain chips) and fried yuca. There's a long list of pastas and pizzas, as well as more substantial main courses, nightly specials, and delicious desserts. One room here boasts colorful wall murals by Costa Rican artist Miguel Cassafont. This place is almost always filled with a broad mix of San José's gay, bohemian, theater, arts, and university crowds.

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