www.CostaRicaTicas.com

I know both of these places reviewed in the article linked below. Both are very clean sodas where you can get a fresh square CR tipico meal in Jaco for $6. Good deal for a good meat or fish or chicken and potatoes and salad meal in Jaco, generous full plate servings, or a great bk with lots of options made to order. I think both are owned by the same people. Rustico has been around for a long, long time, for sure since when Jaco was the Jaco we now have forgotten Jaco once was

Alot of guys complain that the town is now an overly expensive tourist trap. Yes, Jaco eating can get very pricey, many high season gringos get steered to the "hot/in crowd" places and spend 3x? that much not knowing an alternative for when you are not trying to impress your new found honey as to how wealthy you are . Save your $$ for the game plan .

Rustico is in town so you can walk to it. Marea is out close to the highway so it's a good location for when you are coming to Jaco chica hunting but staying at your digs in Los Suenos or Playa Hermosa.

Here's a recent CR Gringo E-newspaper review, followed by the link to the Facebook page for Rustico:

http://www.costaricantimes.com/hidden-g ... tico/24992

The Facebook page for Rustico with good fotos: https://www.facebook.com/MareaBajaJaco? ... co?fref=ts

Get excellent reviews in TripAdvisor.

Viva Rustico!!! Great place. I give them my fish catches…and eat my own caught Ceviche all week.

Hey Austinrica buddy, you at Los Suenos? Saw there were a couple of records broke last week.

Why didn't you mention https://www.facebook.com/Tacobar for $3 breakfast before 10 because I forgot about that deal.

TacoBar must be doing something right--their FB page mentions locations in 6 different locales. The one in Jaco sure did me right. Bravo!

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Love Taco Bar, one of my favorites. Eaten their breakfast, lunch and dinner and was happy each time.
Did the free breakfast at Cocal, then wandered over for the $3 breakfast deal several times. The three fish taco special for dinner hits the spot for the night.

Hey, we forgot $1 Tacos, meat or fish, (do the fish) Mon-Fri from 4to7 at the "Backyard" on Playa Hermosa, cool place to hang with excellent chance of meeting someone, draws a very good often very big crowd to watch the ever so exciting sun drop below the horizon. ESPECIALLY LADIES NIGHT ON WEDNESDAY. and good cheap eats

Also, a popular place to stay for many experienced Pacifico tourists, good locals or us. Enjoy a much better beach experience at a hotel there and at night chase the $$$poosy in Jaco 5 mins away.

For the newer guys, if you want to be close (2 hs) to SJ and be able to lazy the day off at a decent beach and get some sun or go fishing, yet want access to P4P at night, Jaco/Hermosa is your only option. Unless you can afford the magnif $$$$ Los Suenos condo resort 15-20 minutes north, the other direction from Jaco. Regardless, at night you will both wind up at the the same poosy places in Jaco, the only choice for either. Period.

Forget Tamarindo, Flamingo, Coco, Montezuma, St Teresa, Tambor, Liberia, etc., and the very remote $high-end resort locations, like RIU for example, that your dippy wife or dopier bachelor party organizer chooses on an all-inclusive, 20 miles off the main road in the middle of fuckin no where remote CR except for monkeys, close to where Christ lost his shoes, and that the board often gets dopey 1 time nubey inquiries about "where can I get laid around here".

In CR for P4P, it's either the SJ gulch or Jaco. End of story unless you are the type that likes hunting . Or can do a stinky fat drunk pig in the back room of a floppier then floppy shit hole bar in a Guanacaste beach town on a C*ck roach condominium "bed" and swear she was a 10 in the Garden of Eden--but those places are around in virtually any CR town with a population over 250, that's the very good diff between the US & CR.

Anyway here are the links to Backyard Hotel in Hermosa.

http://www.backyardhotel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/backyard.costarica?fref=ts

So with the other three others eateries mentioned in the above psots, you can do cheap eats in Jaco and save your cash for the ass.

Didn't mean to slight two other Hermosa "good hotels for the area": http://surfinnhermosa.com/ and http://www.mareabravacostarica.com/webcam.html.

My opinion, having seen all 3 hotels though very occasionally over a long period of time, but a 2-4 time a year visitor to Ladies Night, is that they are all pretty cool in their own way and are nice digs, but way over-priced for the product because there ain't much else to realistically choose from at Hermosa and they know it? However, they are smack dab walk out to the beach properties which is really sweet--tough to beat that in the a.m. How cool is that? Walk out of your room onto the Pacific?

I remember posts from SpecialEd that he spent considerable time at Playa Hermosa in an apt so he or others may chime in with a much better seasoned and recent perspective on accomadations and eateries in the area.

dinner at isaga ~ cameronnes con salsa blanco & fettuccine (shirmp in white sauce w/spaghetti) ~ a personal favorite when i am in jaco ~ forget how much the camerone soup is but is delicious as well ~ ask anyone who knows me & they will confirm i am no foodie ~ but it can be 1 of life's pleasures ~ a local favorite open late isaga is my 1st choice without having to think!

From a real estate site: http://jacobeachinfo.com/blog/index.php/tag/soda-isaga/ << they list other fave restaurants as well
From TA (address, [sort of], reviews): http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_R ... renas.html << they loved it as much as Bro Edikted did

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Taco Bar - Excellent choice - very good, very fresh food - not particularly cheap, but good value for the money.

I believe the owners are from Israel

This is the kind of info the board needs to share more

Simple info - I would have posted (assuming I knew) if they were from San Diego, or Cleveland - there is a great Italian res't in Dan Jose - cheap and great food - the owners are from Italy, which could explain how great the food is.

And actually, it does have something to do with the food - which you might have a clue about if you:

Have visited Israel (as I have)
Know anything about middle eastern food (the salad bar they have is common to restrauants in that region)

Just between us - are you Vegan Bob's, Hangman, or Adolph Hitler spelled backwards - or some other sock puppet?

There would have been no sting in this if that info was in the original post. I view the owner's origin, standalone, as interesting but incidental intelligence...with a bit of follow-on, like, say, how and why he came to CR (most unusual choice for any Middle Easterner, world travelers though they are). I am NOT trying to up the amperage, just commenting. A Haitian restraurateur in Phuket--now that would be news.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Regarding Middle Eastern food, if you like that type of Cuisine, check out Sisso up in Escazu. Get the combo platters for 2 people and enjoy!