It saddens me to have to write my first bad review, but I can’t let this slide. As a Costa Rican national who lives abroad, I am anxious to try foods that I haven’t had in years, so I was excited to eat here. The food didn’t taste bad to me, except the elote. My mom (a 72 year-old very Costa Rican woman) was not as keen on it. The real issue was realizing that, whether it was just the server or the establishment as a whole, trying to take advantage of foreigners is a very real thing. I ordered tons of food, knowing that I could take it home, but we were not given all we had left over. My mom kept a very sharp eye on what the server was doing, especially after I asked him where certain things had gone. When it came to paying, I was given the choice to either do it in colones or dollars, to which I chose the colones. Had I chosen dollars, I would have been charged and extra $5 for no apparent reason. My bank statement confirmed that my total would have been around $78, not $82. I come expecting a service and I’m more than willing to pay for it and more (as my ¢5000 tip, to my mother’s dismay, will attest to), but I will not permit such behavior to exist without denouncing it. It is indecent to try and rob people just because they’re tourists and may not understand how things are. I will not go back there and will have to give a bad reference to everyone I talk to when I go back home to the US.