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San Jose Travel Guide

San José is one of the youngest capitals of Latin America. Nowadays it's a modern city with bustling commerce, brisk expressions of art and architecture, and spurred by the country's improved tourism industry, a significant destination and stopover for foreign visitors.

About San Jose

San Jose covers an area of 3.7 sq. miles (9.47 sq. Km) and is estimated to have a population of 1.6 million people being the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and is at the heart of the sprawling Gran Area Metropolitana or GAM in the Central Valley.

Restaurants

Even after a relocation, remodeling, and expansion, this elegant restaurant is set around a lovely interior courtyard of the wonderful Hotel Grano de Oro. The atmosphere here remains intimate, relaxed, and refined, all at the same time. The menu features a wide range of meat and fish dishes. The lomito piemontes is two medallions of filet mignon stuffed with Gorgonzola cheese in a sherry sauce, while the pernil de conejo is a rabbit thigh stuffed with a mushroom pâté and served with a Dijon mustard sauce.

If you opt for fish, I recommend the macadamia-encrusted corvina, which is served with a light and tangy orange sauce. Be sure to save room for the “Grano de Oro pie,” a decadent dessert with various layers of chocolate and coffee mousses and creams. This place has a good wine list, including a range of options by the glass. When the weather’s nice, grab a table around the fountain in the courtyard, a particularly nice option for lunch.

El Chicote

Cafeteria 1830

Café Mundo

Bacchus



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