Dining in Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica

While is Flamingo we did eat home a few nights. The kitchen is great to cook in and there is a grill on the deck. The best food store in the area is the super Maasai. You will find most everything you need there. For chicken or meat you need to go to the mega super, about 15 minutes outside flamingo. I just love the food store names they are either a mega, mini. super, or a maxi. Funny what comes to mind and I will leave it at that.

On the road in Pottero just passed the Beach House Restaurant  is a fruit & vegetable stand. Everything is fresh and inexpensive.  

                                                        All this for $2.00

 We did try a few restaurants all within the Marina area and within walking distance from the condo. We found pricing to be a bit more expensive here and the food not very good. 

 Marie's has live music a few nights and they come on early 7:00pm - 8:00pm. Thursday night there was Latin music - Trans-Flamenco Experimental.  It was just 2 guys Tony & Roy who play Spanish Guitar & Bongos and are excellent. Thursday night this is the place to be, seriously not a empty seat in the place. 

As for the food it was not very good. I have had fresh fish all over the country and this was probably the the worst I have had. I enjoy the Casado it is a perfect meal, fish (can get beef or chicken) rice, beans, and a small salad. Tonight the fish is mahi mahi and is offered blacken, burger, or casado all for different pricing. The blacken can not be ordered with the Casado, you can only get it fried with the casado 

 Okay, that makes little sense but I am willing to paid a little more for blacken fish. It came with mashed potatoes & green beans. The fish came out with a red coating on it and had no flavor at all. The mashed were tasteless and the green beans well how hard is it to mess up beans. The whole meal was bland with 0 flavor, I didn't even finish it. Marie's is #1 and highly recommend by frommer who normally is spot on. Maybe a off night?   

The music more than made up for the food. Next time eat at home and go for drinks. 

 We also tried the Mariners Inn which is in the top ten here. I am starting to question the taste buds of the people who eat at these places. Fried fish Casado which I think came out of a freezer.

Lunch one day we wondered down to the monkey bar after seeing tortilla soup on the menu. It is a nice pool side grill with great views. The beers are cold. Tried the soup along with a club sandwich & fries. The soup watery not much flavor didn't finish it and the fries barely cooked. Plus expensive.

 We did find one home run, Angelina's. They have a brick oven and pizza. How can one go wrong with pizza and they didn't. The pizza's are great. 

  Outside the Beach House I found the food here to be more expensive and just not