Restaurants in Playas Flamingo and Potrero
In addition to the spots below, you also can’t go wrong with the rabbit pappardelle or pizza cooked in a wood fired oven at Angelina’s ★★ (www.angelinasplayaflamingo.com; tel. 2654-4839), on the second floor of La Plaza shopping center. For grilled fare and comfort foods, in Playa Potrero, there’s the restaurant and bar The Shack (https://theshackcr.com; tel. 2654-6038) in the Surf Side neighborhood. It offers tasty sandwiches, ribeye steak, casados, and whole fried red snapper.
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- Costa Rican/Seafood
Coco Loco
Chef Jean-Luc Taulere, who owned the much beloved but now closed Mar y Sol restaurant, now runs this casual beachfront bar and restaurant. It has a lovely setting, with teak tables under white canvas umbrellas spread out on the sand at the far southern end of Playa Flamingo. The menu…$Playa Flamingo - Costa Rican/Seafood
Marie's
Marie has been serving fresh, fairly priced food here for decades, and her restaurant is justifiably popular. She’s still running the show, which means the menu thankfully hasn’t changed from burritos and quesadillas, plus simply grilled fish or slow cooked baby-back ribs. The large,…$$Playa Flamingo - Café
Surf Box
Cute and colorful, this Instagram-friendly breakfast and brunch spot run by an expat couple is like an updated Jewish deli, but redesigned for the tropics. Start with the fresh fruit smoothies before moving to the açai bowls, shakshuka, Montreal style bagel sandwiches, or challah…$Playa Flamingo - Cafe/Deli
Surf Box
It’s hard not to love this cute and colorful, Instagram-friendly breakfast and brunch spot run by an expat couple. The menu reads like an updated Jewish deli, but redesigned for the tropics. That means that along with fresh fruit smoothies and açaí bowls, there’s shakshuka,…$Playa Flamingo Surf Box
It’s hard not to love this cute and colorful, Instagram-friendly breakfast and brunch spot run by an expat couple. The menu reads like an updated Jewish deli, but redesigned for the tropics. That means that along with fresh fruit smoothies and açaí bowls, there’s shakshuka,…$Playa Flamingo
