Jalapeños Central — Restaurant in Alajuela

This restaurant is great! I found the menu to be quite large with a lot of local and Mexican dishes. The selection was so good it was hard to make a choice!

This restaurant and the one next door (Señor Patacones & Doña Arrepa) have the same owner and if you want you can ask for both menus and order from either one.

The patacones here are the biggest you will find with more selection of toppings than most. The mixed plate is a lot for one person and I noticed that many of the meals were big, but the prices were surprisingly low.

The service was the best that we had during our two week vacation and the owner was very kind and friendly.

I highly recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for good Latin comfort food.

Muchos...

Instead of staying at sterile airport hotels the night before your departure, stay in Alujuela at one of many inexpensive hotels and see some of the local cultura! This is a Tex-Mex style restaurant and it was excellent. I could have been at any of the best little San Antonio restaurants near the Alamo. Very fresh, crunchy lettuce, excellent dollop of guacamole on the Mexican rice, they brought a very nice picante sauce (concentrated and deep brown). I put drops of it on all parts of my dish, and mixed it in to the elements. That made it great. Without the salsa, it would have been a very good plate. With...

This place is seemingly 2-3 restaurants in one. One with more of a Colombian vibe/food, one that is tex Mex and one that's bar-ish. They'll bring you food and menus from all of those places though , just ask. I think they have common kitchen or some setup like that. Yummy and filling food all around , I especially liked their full plates with entree which comes with drink , Gallo pinto , guac ,pico for minimal upcharge. This place also accommodates most if not all dietary needs so gets an extra vote from me. Good food for a reasonable price in the middle...