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I was at Andiamo La Restaurant in Santa Ana last Saturday for lunch, with my wife. Our experience wasn’t so good, either as to the quality of the food, or the service. I certainly agree with you Scott, that the wine list is over-priced. Our main dish, ravioli stuffed with crab and tomato sauce, arrived after a considerable wait, with the sauce being more of a soup, than a sauce, and without much flavour. The waiter that served us primarily, was also in a bad humour. We complained to the Manager about the food quality and they did offer to replace it, but because of the initial wait, we declined the offer. No adjustment to the bill was made, or offered. A really good restaurant is the new Vino Mundo Restaurant in Brasil de Mora, 100 meters south of the school.
[quote=”maravilla”]no, we did not do ethiopian food (which i love by the way, if only i could get teff here !). we had Italian fine-dining restaurants, where every single thing was made from scratch — even in the 90’s it was expensive to do that and then chemicalized, industrialized corporate food took over. people like cheap, and cheap is what they got at every restaurant but ours. so really, the prices scott quoted are NOT expensive if you want to eat well prepared FRESH food, and not some glop out of a 5 gallon bucket that the food service companies supply to most restaurants. you get what you pay for.[/quote]
often wanted to open an organic resteraunt here in states, but the cost is prohibitive to profit mmargin and most people think that organic is a gimmick and slop up those buckets…..that and investing in anything in the states is out for me…….any land, business,etc I do in the future is out of the States….not investing in a dead carcass.
you don’t have to live on rice and beans to eat cheaply in costa rica. we do eat beans — limas, garbanzos, black beans, fresh red beans — and we do them in many different ways from a variety of cultures. we don’t eat meat, but we do occasionally eat chicken and some fish or shrimp (and lobster when it’s available). where it gets expensive is buying gringo packaged stuff. but there is every kind of vegetable available here and all the herbs so tonight we are having fresh pesto sauce with bucatini and grilled aspargus as an appetizer. total cost for two people: about $3.00.
[quote=”maravilla”]you don’t have to live on rice and beans to eat cheaply in costa rica. we do eat beans — limas, garbanzos, black beans, fresh red beans — and we do them in many different ways from a variety of cultures. we don’t eat meat, but we do occasionally eat chicken and some fish or shrimp (and lobster when it’s available). where it gets expensive is buying gringo packaged stuff. but there is every kind of vegetable available here and all the herbs so tonight we are having fresh pesto sauce with bucatini and grilled aspargus as an appetizer. total cost for two people: about $3.00.[/quote]
man, sounds good, I do eat meat, though less then used to
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