Restaurants

San Jose has a wide variety of restaurants; everything from Pizza Hut to Thai and Japanese food! Students will have a wide variety of dinning options from typical Costa Rican cuisine to Peruvian food!

“…during the San Jose Walking Tour, you'll visit some of the best restaurants in all of San Jose.”

San Jose Restaurants

Tin Jo
One of the best Thai restaurants in San Jose is Tin Jo. Located downtown, this restaurant is very busy on the week-ends and has probably the best Pina Coladas in the city! Here you can order anything from Sushi, to Thai curry, to Chinese (a nice change from typical Costa Rican beans and rice).

Machu Pichu
This fantastic Peruvian restaurant in San Jose is based on the legend of the famous Machu Pichu mountain in Peru, this restaurant serves fantastic ceviche (kind of like sushi), sea bass, calamari, and shrimp.

A fantastic spread of seafood, and a great way to start your vacation in Costa Rica.

Costa Rican Cuisine
Typical Costa Rican food consists of rice and beans. The typical breakfast is gallo pinto, which is a mixture of beans and rice, usually served with eggs and bread or tortillas.

For lunch, Costa Ricans usually eat a “Casado” which is rice, beans, and your choice of meat, eggs, chicken or fish. “Casado” literally means “married” and that word is used because it’s the type of food you get when you are married!

Costa Rica is also popular because of its coffee plantations and banana fields. Tours are offered for both, and are usually very entertaining and informative.