Tábaris — Restaurant in Caldera

Terrible food and impressively neglectful service. Our lunch was a 2-hour struggle of trying to get our server (Eva)'s attention as she did her best to completely ignore us for 30-40min periods. We had to yell to her every time we wanted something as she served all her other tables except us. In the end we were only able to muster a single drink out of her as we sat sweating profusely (90F).

My cheeseburger looked like they put the whole thing together with raw meat then threw it in a panini press. It was all mush in blood soaked bread. My girlfriend's "salad" was literally a plate of solid vegetables with no dressing. They gave us black pepper?

Even the check took Eva 20 min to put together after we asked for it. A huge waste of time and put a damper on...

Roadside restaurant that seems very VERY popular with the locals. Its busy but they'll get you your food in a timely manner. The seafood soup was a very generous portion with shellfish still in their shells. You can pull the meat out... And its so creamy. Even the plain fried fish was good. Crispy but juicey. Noce crispy fries. Even the side salad had a tasty dressing. And nice people as well. It is easy to communicate even if you cant speak Spanish. They have reasonable prices too. Would...

Platotes y platitos - Caldereando Ando. Tabaris Caldera (pues es que hay otro en Esparza, por eso la aclaración) está estratégicamente ubicado frente al mar, con vista al estero y al muelle de Puerto Caldera. Pero dejá eso, tienen una terrazita con toldos para que echarse la birra viendo al mar mientras te mandás un pescado entero o un casado sobrepasado de arroz. La comida es de corte criolla puntarenense: casados, pescado entero, filete de pescado, pollo a la plancha, patacones, etc. ¿Precios? Bien, razonables, un poco contradictorios pues un pollo a la plancha con arroz salió igual que un plato de camarones con arroz (en mi imaginario de precios culinarios, los camarones son más caros que el pollo). ¿Servicio? Excelente, te atienden rápido y a la brevedad, te traen las bebidas rápido y la comida no dura en llegar más de 15 mins. Hay parqueo amplio, cervezas nacionales comerciales (no cerveza craft), te ponen un frasco de alcohol en gel en la mesa y es fácil separar las cuentas de lo consumido; práctica necesaria hoy en día donde todos estamos mal en mate para hacer las divisiones en la cabeza. ¿Lo malo? Baños no tan limpios, no hay aire acondicionado (pero es parte del concepto del lugar), envases de estereofón, pajillas de plástico. En suma: si, se puede pasar a almorzar ahí cuando van para Guanacaste. Si no pasan, tranquilos, no pasa nada, hay otros restaurantes más adelante que tienen los...