Café Mediterraneo

La Fortuna


This delightful osteria is worth the trip, cooking up homemade pasta and pizza such as the Arenal: bacon, egg, ham, mushroom and basil. Customers rave about the personable service and decadent desserts such as Nutella on pizza dough. Strangely, it also offers Texas-bred Angus beef, while a herd of highly affronted Tico cattle stare from across the road.

Located just after Bike Arenal and before El Establo bar, on the road out of the town center.


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