Vegan-friendly
International
Fast food
Caribbean
Breakfast
Tica
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Small restaurant which offers several vegan dishes on the menu. Includes a vegan gallo pinto, a vegan burger, vegan sandwich, vegan nachos and vegan casado. Open Mon-Fri 8:00am-9:00pm, Sat 8:00am-10:00pm, Sun 12:00pm-12:00am.


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11 Reviews

First Review by umeboshi

MelodyDmd

Points +469

Vegan
24 Sep 2024

Generous portions and tasty homemade burgers

There are some nice options here. I tried both gallo pinto for breakfast and a casado for dinner and both were tasty and filling. Price for each was 3850 colones (including service charge). You can pay by card.

Pros: Big portions, Tasty burger (veggies/chickpea flour patty), Reasonably priced

MidwifeBec

Points +601

Vegan
15 Apr 2024

Separate vegan menu

Refreshing to see a separate vegan menu. The burger was great, and a welcome change to rice and beans

Velo

Points +2817

Vegan
27 Apr 2023

Cheap-ish good food

I really likes the vegan Pinto Gallo here with some of the hot sauce mixed into the rice. We also tried the vegan sandwich which was decent, the Gallo was cheaper and better, though.

Izzyveg

Points +1816

Vegan
12 Mar 2022

Decent and cheap place to eat

There are 3 vegan mains on the menu which includes vegan casado, vegan burger and vegan sandwich. The casado and burger are pretty much the same as far as the patty goes. You get fries with the burger and beans, salad, rice with the casado. It tasted OK but the burger could be made differently hence why 3 stars. Well-priced lunch 🍝🥗🍱.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Not much variety

LOL22

Points +231

Vegan
30 Jan 2022

Very good vegan food

The vegan food is very good and tastes fresh. If you ask for coffee with alternative milk you get it. The owner and cook is so nice. I ate there three times and it was always yummy, only have two fotos.
The portions are big.

Pros: Very good food, Friendly Staff or Owner, Yummy and big portion

AlanJamesBurns

Points +379

Vegan
01 Jan 2022

Quick and easy

I got the vegan casado. It was ok, simple
Nothing special but quick and easy.

Updated from previous review on 2022-01-01

Pros: Quick food, Simple

Cons: Not the cleanest

AnneHeiners

Points +1163

Vegan
28 Sep 2021

Simple but good

Offers many vegan options. We took a virgin Piña Colada and the garlic spaghetti. Nothing special but simple and good. The restaurant is lovely decorated and the owner is very friendly.

Veganvoyagers

Points +1798

Vegan
01 Apr 2021

Vegan Casado

They offer a vegan Casado, which was the first one we tried in the country. It came with a chickpea patty which was good, but after trying other casados, this one was one of the worst- still yummy though.

Ffion89

Points +647

Vegan
29 Apr 2020

Nice place

This is a nice restaurant with friendly staff and it seems like an unlikely place to have vegan options listed in a town with very few vegan friendly places!

I ordered the vegan burger. It was a bit weird, not the best burger I've ever eaten, but it was nice enough and great to have the option there.

Pros: Friendly staff, Good selection, Vegan options marked on menu

Cons: Average food

Lilli73

Points +264

Herbivore
16 Mar 2020

Really friendly

Really friendly service and you get a free juice. For Costa Rica you can‘t complain!

umeboshi

Points +165

Vegan
06 Dec 2019

Vegan options and good cocktails.

Nice restaurant, several vegan options. I had the vegan casado which was pretty good and included a lot of veggies. The cocktails were great by the way!

Pros: Vegan options in a town with little vegan options, Menu available in english, Good cocktails




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