Restaurants in Playa Hermosa
In addition to the places listed below, you’ll find good restaurants at both the El Velero Hotel and the Hotel Playa Hermosa Bosque del Mar.
- International/Tapas
Ginger
With a design by famed Costa Rican architect Víctor Cañas, creative cocktails, and a wide-ranging tapas menu, this is easily the hippest place to drink and dine in the Papagayo area. The entire restaurant is open air, on a raised deck under tall trees, with angled steel supports and…$Around Town - International
Los Sueños
You get dinner and a show at the restaurant of the Villa del Sueño Hotel and condo complex. Throughout the high season, a house band, which features one of the owners, usually plays (Celine Dion reportedly once joined in). But even if there’s no music, this open-air restaurant is…$$$Around Town - Fusion/Bistro
Makoko
Beneath a wooden, spaceship-like open-air structure near the pool inside the Mangroove Hotel, Makoko uses local ingredients, from 30-day aged Costa Rican beef to mahi mahi, to craft elegant meals that wouldn’t be out of place in a top restaurant in any North American city. Start your…$$$Around Town
