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Learning to Eat in Costa Rica: Adventures in Tropical Fruits

The more time I spend in Costa Rica, the more I use these strange ingredients to my advantage. We would never have attempted lentil burgers or Thai green curry had bags of legumes and cans of coconut milk not been so plentiful. We are no longer distracted by the frozen vegetables and heat-and-serve dinner kits we once bought from Trader Joe’s.

Costa Rica’s New floating restaurant on Isla Venado

“Proyecto Camarón,” (shrimp project) on Venado Island, in the Gulf of Nicoya, is a floating restaurant that promises a unique experience for all visitors....

Guaro is a Local Costa Rica Drink You Should Try

Anyone who has read my haphazard musings can probably discern, in the shadows of my current incarnation as an “oh, maybe just one glass...

Delizia: The Art of Fine Wine in Costa Rica

Delizia is a family owned business, located in Escazú, San José, that sells and distributes the finest wines from the US. It is the...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s the chemistry that makes your beer taste good (or bad)

In a recent study, researchers found that more layers of foam on top of a liquid make it less likely to spill. So going with some hearty traditional beer may be good for more than just your holiday spirit. It could keep your clothes dry, too, as you get tipsier.

Costa Rica’s Hidden Harvests: 6 Foods You’ve Never Seen

Here are six tropical foods and spices that grow in Costa Rica that you definitely know but probably have never seen au naturel.

Add some Costa Rican love to your Thanksgiving Table

How would one serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal with a few Costa Rican twists? Tico Times columnist and culture editor Katherine Stanley and her husband, chef Adrián Obando, explore a few possibilities.

6 Popular Tropical Foods of Costa Rica you thought you knew

Here are six tropical foods and spices that grow in Costa Rica that you definitely know but probably have never seen au naturel.

Scotland-based multinational brewery and pub chain BrewDog comes to Costa Rica

BrewDog's expansion throughout Central America begins in Costa Rica "as a door for the rest of the region."

Cabra Negra’s warm rompope foams its way until Christmas

"It's a visual experience and that seems to motivate people a lot. I have never seen another place that offers rompope like we do."

Can it still be agua de sapo if El Portón Rojo mixes it with rum?

I sat down to eat pizza at El Portón Rojo (200 meters east and 75 south from Arenas store, at Los Yoses) and ordered my usual pizza for two —prosciutto, arugula, and parmesan cheese— but instead of the usual beer, I asked for a drink that seemed familiar: the sapo bautizado.

Buchón cantina: Spritz cocktails to dine for

Buchón was the first place I tasted the Aperol Spritz, months before it became fashionable around San José.

Costa Rica Restaurant: Holiday

Visiting Holiday is like stepping into a foreign land. I’m surprised they don’t ask for your passport at the door. The food is not...

Two winning drinks with Costa Rica’s best bartender at Mil948

It seems like Isaac Montero barely looks at the bar while he is assembling his equipment. He quickly stacks cocktail mixers, puts down tiny bottles of homemade cocktail bitters and fastens his black leather apron all while talking. Everything he needs is meticulously arranged to be at the reach of his hands.
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Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan Slips to Second in UN Race

Costa Rican economist and former vice president Rebeca Grynspan has fallen to second place in the race to become the next secretary-general of the...

Costa Rica Investigates Hepatitis A Outbreaks in San José

The Ministry of Health is investigating active hepatitis A outbreaks in Desamparados, Hatillo and Hospital, three heavily populated areas of San José. Health teams...

Cincinnati Open 2026 Sets All-North American Semifinal

An American man is guaranteed a place in the Cincinnati Open final after Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima won their quarterfinal matches on Friday....

Astronomers Discover Fastest Known Star in the Milky Way

Scientists have discovered S301, a star traveling at 8% of the speed of light around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Its orbit could help test Einstein’s theory of relativity and reveal how quickly Sagittarius A* rotates.