www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Gven that perspective, I'll try the lengua when I return to SJ next week.

_________________
Providing humanitarian assistance to self employed chicas, one cash grant at a time.

Ultra Clean? Guess if you can get past the mice eating the bird seed in the aviary, about 2 feet from your table, you could say that

_________________
Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

I didn't see that. But, I am still trying to decide if I'll eat the tongue

_________________
Providing humanitarian assistance to self employed chicas, one cash grant at a time.

I've seen plenty of dogs licking their butts and balls, but I don't remember ever seeing a cow accomplish that same feat. Anyway, even if they did, they peel or cut the surface area including all the taste buds off the tongue meat before serving. I recall doing that myself as a K*D whenever my family prepared tongue (it is considered a delicacy in jewish cooking usually served with lots of mustard, yum). Actually, it is kind of a pain to prepare yourself and is best had as a dish when you go out (as in a jewish deli sandwich or en salsa at latino restaurants). I think it really is quite good and everyone should really try it.

Re: any mice? Screw that. There you go ID with that negativity again. If truth be told there are probably mice scurrying around most restaurants in CR. Do you think the cat at Mariscar is there just as a pet rather than to do a job? And there was even a report of mice being spotted at higher end places like the Del Mar. As long as those mice are only eating bird seed rather than getting into the ingredients they serve me, I can deal with it.

I think the setting in the back courtyard at La Criollitta is a wonderful place to spend a relaxed lunch. The key is to avoid the lunch crowd by NOT going there between 12 and 1 when it gets quite packed and hard to get a table in the back.

Still cant not resist the cheap shot can you Pro. Grow up man no one is interested in your personal vendettas.

_________________
Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Now boys, stop fighting or you won't get any tongue.

Mice is nice. Hey, you probably would freak out at the variety of critters which inhabits your local restaurants in the States. A good friend, now deceased had a very successful pest control business in Minneapolis. Mice, rats, bats, the occasional squirrel, roaches, ants, sand fleas, silverfish, sow bugs, centipedes can all be commonly found in U.S. kitchens. As Prolijo points out, as long as the pests don't come in contact with food or utensils, you're probably okay.

Of course, there's no guarantee that Pixie and Dixie aren't supplementing their birdseed diet with rice, bread crumbs and other delicacies found in the kitchen.... but it's a risk I'm willing to take.

BTW, I'm still not clear about the location. I'm getting Av. 7 west of c. 7, south side of the street...right?

_________________
Pura Vulva! Wandering through the dark, I am El Ciego.

Man.... I wanna party with you sometime. So, where is La Criolita located??

_________________
Pura Vulva! Wandering through the dark, I am El Ciego.

Ultra Clean? Guess if you can get past the mice eating the bird seed in the aviary, about 2 feet from your table, you could say that

Admin..your post thingy is reversed!!

send $5 to my paypal....or fix when U have time....your call.

"but then I remembered that cows lick their butts with that same tongue"

What is wrong with that, Come on guys if you could you probably would and just not tell anybody. Had the lengua dish and it is very good.

_________________
"QUID PRO QUO" in CR and the rest of the world!

I refuse to frequent any place that charges gringos more for the same food. That's just plain wrong.

Can you imagine if a place here in the U.S. started having a menu that charged more for their Latino clientele? No doubt they'd be sued by the ACLU and etc..

I've had a restaurant actually charge me gringo price (more) even though the menu was in Spanish and the price was stated. When I complained, he said, "Oh, that's an old menu. The new menu is higher." I never went back there. They have to learn that we won't tolerate being ripped off, or else they'll (some of them will) keep doing it.

I wasn't aware they had a gringo and tico menu......I'll remember that.

Seems to be quite common in most of latin america.

They often don´t seem to grasp certain concepts well, like if you don´t screw me out of $1 today, I might spend enough in here to give you $10 profit tomorrow, then you have $9 more dollars than if you had not screwed me.

oh well...I suppose there are many a thread on here about this particular culturual phenom. Some kind of live for the moment, now is everything philosophy i guess.

Now, as to the Conan comment:
Scaring me Conan...I dont rub my finger on one and then the other, so can´t make the jump you can here. Always a good reminder tho that people like you are out there, sometimes I forget, thanks bro. You don´t think the CR gals?, no..no..at least not the ones that I....maybe just some of the cooks.

I've eaten there on many occasions and got the same lunch specials that everybody else got. I've never spoken English there though, so that may be part of the problem. When I lived in Austria some restaurants had "English" menus that were dictionary word by word translations that were hilarious.

_________________
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

VITTORIO DE SICA

I can't swear to it....but it seems to me that the menu they handed me was in both English and Spanish.