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Where to eat in Tamarindo

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Tamarindo probably has the widest selection of restaurants of any beach town on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.   
Our restaurant is located on the beach and near the pool, but if you would like to explore other restaurants besides Capitán Suizo during your stay, there are many options for every taste - Tamarindo offers around 50 different restaurants.

We asked our receptionists and our concierge for their best recommendations and about the gastronomy options our guests love the most, and here are the top 5:


Pangas Beach Club 

Pangas Beach Club restaurant is located on the sands of north Tamarindo beach and is popular for its seafood dishes. Pangas is a breezy beach club by day and a relaxed restaurant and bar by night.

“Our chefs use the area’s freshest local seafood caught straight from the region’s best fishermen with all-natural, local ingredients to accent the beachfront flavors of the Costa Rican coast in every bite.” - Pangas Beach Club

© Pangas Beach Club

© Pangas Beach Club

Patagonia Argentinian Grill & Restaurant

Patagonia is located in the centre of Tamarindo and is a great choice for meat lovers. 
Argentinean steaks, beef tenderloin, chorizo are some of the options, but they also offer seafood and a few pasta dishes. Besides pretty good cocktails and wine.

© Patagonia Argentinian Grill & Restaurant

© Patagonia Argentinian Grill & Restaurant

Seasons

Seasons offers Mediterranean cuisine in a cosy yet elegant setting.

“Seasons offers an experience to the senses, in the form of poolside dinning with a Mediterranean fusion menu. Our menu consists of the abundant fresh seafood in the area, a variety of vegetarian and vegan dishes along with several meat dishes. We also feature daily specials according to the daily catch as well as you catch it, we cook it.” - Seasons

© Seasons

© Seasons

Dragonfly

Dragonfly is located near the centre of Tamarindo and offers a nice, tropical setting.

“Dragonfly consistently delivers exceptional cuisine, fantastic wines, cocktails and craft beers with gracious and knowledgeable service. Sourcing fresh local ingredients and seasonally adapting our menu options, Dragonfly offers creative culinary cuisine in a charming and romantic atmosphere.” - Dragonfly

© Dragonfly

© Dragonfly

Bamboo Sushi Club

Bamboo Sushi Club in located in the town centre and offers some of the best sushi in Tamarindo. 
They offer sushi, sashimi, uramaki, poke bowls, combo boats, and other Asian cuisine specialities.

© Bamboo Sushi Club

© Bamboo Sushi Club

 

¡Buen provecho!

 

Compiled by Milena Re
Marketing Assistant – Hotel Capitán Suizo
October 27th, 2021

Wildlife in Capitán Suizo

Costa Rica is very well known for its diverse flora and fauna and for its environmental protection and nature conservation, and we try our best to be part of this commitment. 

The garden of Capitán Suizo is a little tropical paradise, with more than 60 different species of trees, many of which are native, and ornamental plants.
Thanks to this wide variety of plants and to a large amount of our organic waste and the production and application of 100% organic fertilizers, our lush garden has become a safe place for all forms of life. 
The flora in the hotel grounds offers wildlife a site to feed, mate, nest, rest or move freely.

In each corner of the hotel one can observe the magnificent beauty of Costa Rica’s nature.
Here are some of the animals that can be seen almost daily throughout the hotel’s garden:

With some luck, sometimes nocturnal wildlife such as porcupines, anteaters, skunks and opossum can also be seen.
If you would like to know more about the animals you can spot in our garden, please visit our wildlife page.

It is very important to us to be able to live in harmony, side by side, with many different species of wildlife and nature in general.
We are grateful to all the animals that choose our tropical garden as their home or that come visit from time to time, and we are very happy that our guests can enjoy their presence as well.

Compiled by Milena Re 
Marketing Assistant – Hotel Capitán Suizo 
September 29th, 2021

"El Capitán" Island

Costa Rica is known for its beautiful beaches, the tropical rainforest and its volcanoes, but did you know that it also has more than one hundred islands?!
One of this islands is the “El Capitán” island, located at the end of the bay in Tamarindo.
This small island is about 700 meters from the shore and is home to many hermit crabs.

More than just coffee

“Allegory of coffee and bananas” Famous painting by Aleardo Villa, on the Costa Rican 5 colones bill

“Allegory of coffee and bananas” Famous painting by Aleardo Villa, on the Costa Rican 5 colones bill

Coffee

Coffee keeps us alert, helps us burn fat, and improves our physical performance, among many other health benefits. It is even said that coffee consumption is the reason why Costa Ricans have a high life expectancy and that is why CHANEL® uses Costa Rican green coffee as one of the main assets for one of its skin treatments, along with ingredients from blue zones in other countries where people live the longest and healthiest lives.

Coffee is also an ideal drink to share with friends or family, the socialization that takes place around coffee makes it the most consumed drink in Costa Rican culture. In Costa Rica we produce one of the best coffees in the world, however, for us Ticos, coffee is more than just a drink.

More than coffee, history

For Costa Rica, coffee is so much more than just a basic traditional drink that is found in every home.

Coffee is impregnated as part of Costa Rican history; it was a fundamental part of the economic, social and political development of Costa Rica. During the mid-nineteenth century, being Costa Rica already an independent country from Spain and thanks to the escalation of coffee exports to England, coffee became the state´s formation product since the whole country was organized according to the export of this product. This was lead and organized by the coffee oligarchy which established the foundation of the state system.

Although the power was in the hands of the oligarchy, there was no slavery in coffee production in Costa Rica as in other countries. This allowed for a more inclusive activity where all social groups could participate and benefit from the development of the activity.

Y aunque el poder estuvo a cargo de la oligarquía, no hubo en Costa Rica esclavitud en la producción de café como en otros países. Esto permitió una actividad más inclusiva donde todos los grupos sociales podían participar y beneficiarse del desarrollo de la actividad.  

One of the best coffees in the world

100% of the coffee grown in the country belongs to the Arabica species, of the Caturra and Catuaí varieties, it is produced between 800 and 1600 meters above sea level in fertile and volcanic soils. The grains are manually extracted from each plant ensuring its quality.

Costa Rica is not a major coffee producer compared to other countries in the world, however, our coffee has been listed as one of the best in the world due to the high quality of the product. Costa Rica, as it has done in other activities, in terms of coffee, focused on a philosophy of quality and not quantity.

“At Capitán Suizo we wish to invite you to enjoy
an exquisite coffee, in front of the Pacific Ocean!”

Compiled by Helen Soto

Assistant Manager – Hotel Capitán Suizo

Source: Instituto del Café de Costa Rica, Icafe.

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