Las Olas — Restaurant in Cahuita

🤢AVOID AT ALL COST - FOOD POISONING ALERT‼️

This restaurant was recommended by La Shamana eco lodge mentioning that as a vegetarian herself we will find many options as one of us is vegan and that the food was good.

They only offered, the bruschetta and the vegan ratatouille as a viable vegan option.

We chose the seafood pasta, seafood soup and the vegan ratatouille which were quite expensive.

The food was pretty greasy full of garlic and the ratatouille was just rice and vegetables cooked in garlic and oil it is not at all a ratatouille but more of a gigantic fried rice.

The following day we all had food poisoning that lasted 24h, I will spare the details…

The only positive side was the waiter who was very nice.

I would suggest to not base yourself on the ratings but to read the other bad food poisoning reviews and save yourself from a horrible night!

This place should be closed as having so many food poisoning reviews should be an eye opener to the owner who clearly does not care about...

Delicious, simple, fresh food. A little expensive but high quality. Extremely charismatic waiter, who speaks good French, English and Spanish.

I need to knock stars off though, as the waiter told us two things that were not true:

tried to tell us VAT in Costa Rica is 23%, but this was not included on the bill,

and told us that the service charge was not included (despite an extra added 10% to the bill). He claimed this 10% was some sort of reduced rate of tax (as a sort of gesture of goodwill), but this was clearly an effort to get us to tip double.

I was already aware that 13% (not 23) is the rate of the VAT here, and that 10% extra on the bill was actually already the service charge (not a special reduced tax rate) so he was fishing for extra tips.

It's a shame he felt the need to lie twice because he was otherwise extremely personable and charismatic, and the...

Found the food here neatly served but not that mind blowing as the rating would suggest - bruschetta was nice, my main dish was supposed to have curry and coconut milk in it, I didn't find any of them present. The dish was in general not bad but boring. My brother ordered shrimps and got 4 (Four) piece of it - all for 11.500 colones :) That's 4 piece of shrimp for about 18 dollars. I wouldn't honestly recommend going here. Service was polite but the prices are...