The Contemporary Costa Rican Foodie Tour | San Jose

Our Costa Rican Contemporary Cuisine Tour in San Jose "Barrio Escalante", will be an innovative experience of Costa Rican modern cuisine, where the chefs use their creativity to transform traditional recipes into contemporary culinary creations.

Each dish is prepared with fresh products that are all sourced from ingredients grown within the country. Our Tico chefs or managers will explain to you the concept of each local dish, and which traditional recipe they used as inspiration to create their own signature dish. Their challenge is to preserve the local gastronomy but to apply modern cooking techniques to take each recipe to a higher level!

Two ways to taste San Jose

Farm to Table — traditional Costa Rican cooking, made with local seasonal produce and lightly reinterpreted by the chefs who serve it.

Contemporary Cuisine — San Jose's fine dining scene, where chefs reinterpret those same roots as author cuisine.

Neither one is better than the other. They are two different ways of eating the city, and the choice is yours.

• Minimum 2 People

• Price per person

Tour Description

At all restaurants, coffee shops and cocktail rooms, you will be welcomed by the chef, manager or owner (or meet them at the end) as they explain to you what goes into preparing the signature dishes and drinks hand-crafted by each proprietor. Guide will translate when necessary.

The restaurants for this tour are chosen for their modern Costa Rican cuisine and author-driven cooking, always built on local, traceable and sustainably sourced produce. These are not the same restaurants we visit on our Farm to Table tours — this route takes you into San Jose's fine dining scene.

The tour has several alcoholic drinks, so please advise if you will be drinking natural juice or non-alcoholic drinks instead.

This is a walking tour. Walking time between restaurants take less than 10 min.

Tour last 4,5 hours approx.

If you have food allergies please let us know in advance to make adjustments.

Itinerary

Available Tuesday to Sunday. No tours on Mondays.

The tour has two schedules: for lunch starting at 12:00 and for dinner starting at 15:00

Private tours on request: our tours run at set start times, and other guests may join the same departure. If you prefer a private tour or a different start time, just ask us from 2 guests and we will check availability.

We will make 4 stops while we walk through Escalante neighborhood.

For 12:00 Tour:

• First stop: 3  starters, a drink + digestive.

• Second stop: 4 course tasting menu: 3 course meal tasting + dessert + an artisan beer/wine or soft drink.

• Third stop: Coffee workshop + 3 coffee tastings + an appetizer.

• Fourth stop: Mixology workshop by mixologist + 1 cocktail made with local liqueur + boca (small local tapa)/ or local shot.

For 15:00 tour:

• First stop: Coffee workshop + 3 coffee tastings + an appetizer.

• Second stop: 3 starters + a natural drink + digestive.

• Third stop: 4 course tasting menu: 3 course meal tasting + dessert + an artisan beer/wine or soft drink.

• Fourth stop: 1 cocktail prepared with local liqueur + a workshop by a mixologist (World Class Mixologists) + boca (local tapa) / or local shot.

Digestives are small sweet cocktails, it has liqueur.

What is included?

• 1 hour coffee workshop - Costa Rican specialty coffee

• Mixology workshop 

• 8-course tasting menu

• 7 drinks (includes cocktail + digestive)

• English-speaking guide

• Visit to 4 restaurants on private reservation.

What to bring?

• Comfortable shoes.

• Umbrella, if you see it is cloudy or during the raining season.

• Sunscreen

Meeting point:  Luz de Luna Boutique Hotel, we will send you the address by email if you need. We can pick you up at your hotel for an extra fee. 

Please contact us to book transportation.

Reservations

Price per person based on minimum 2 people, if you are 5+ people we can give you a group discount. (Doesn't apply for promotions)

Bookings are confirmed by our team. Send us your request through the contact form, by WhatsApp, or by email to info@foodietourscr.com, and we will check availability with our restaurants and guides. You will receive a payment link once your date is confirmed, usually within a few hours and always in less than 24 hours.

We are on WhatsApp: +506-8844-4301 (you can call or sms anytime)