Economical Spanish Restaurants in San Jose Costa Rica Are Affordable and Good. Dining out away from your resort is affordable and painless. You and your companion can enjoy economical full course Spanish meals at local Spanish Restaurants for less than $20.00 From this sample menu, you and your companion can choose an appetizer, entree, dessert, and beverage for two for less than $20. Seafood on the menu includes Sea Bass, Shrimp, Chowder, Seafood Bisque, Octopus, and Squid. Standard plates of chicken, rice, potatoes, and other vegetables help round out the economical menu. Haardy local cooking is available everywhere. Most local restaurants offer staple menues for lunch and dinner that normally includes meat, beans, a vegetable such as cabbage slaw, and fried plantians. Seafood is also available everywhere, and as you might expect generally fresh and tasty.
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Sample Menu
Sea Bass Fillet
$3.50
Fresh Sea Bass fillet, garnished with a slightly
spicy garlic, onion, and coriander sauce
Sea Bass a lo Macho
$6.95
Chef Specialty prepared with garlic, onion,
Peruvian hot pepper sauce, variety of seafood and aromatic white wine.
Sea Bass Limena
$5.85
Steamed fillet of Sea Bass, with delicate white
wine, mushroom sauce, baked with parmesan cheese a gratin and served with
boiled potatoes on the side.
Sea Bass Florentina
$3.50
Delightful fillet of fresh Sea Bass with an
exquisite spinach sauce.
Stuffed Sea Bass
$6.65
A fillet of fresh Sea Bass, stuffed with Jumbo
Shrimps and covered in its natural sauce.
Shrimp
$6.25
Medium sized breaded shrimps.
Seafood Cau Cau
$6.65
A luscious assortment of seafood delicacies
prepared in garlic, onion, and yellow Peruvian Aji (hot pepper)
Seafood Chowder
$3.15
A hearty blend of assorted shellfish, generously
seasoned with garlic, onion and aromatic spices and white wine.
Seafood Bisque
$3.15
Concentrated fish-head soup stock revved up with
a variety of shellfish, garlic, onion, and coriander. Called the
Lazarus Soup, capable of reviving the dead.
Peruvian Tenderloin Stir-Fry
$2.95
Bite size pieces of tenderloin, onion, tomato,
parsley, stir-fried when you place your order.
Black Peppered Chicken
$3.50
Chicken medallions prepared with a delicious
black pepper sauce.
Chicken Piquant
$2.75
Tender slices of chicken, prepared with nuts,
milk and bread crumbs.
Chicken Chaufa
$2.75
A Peruvian version of Cantonese rice with ham,
chicken, and eggs.
Rice
$5.00
Sea Food Rice
Queen Sea Bass Ceviche
$2.95
Queen Sea Bass cut into bite-sized pieces,
cooked in lime juice, seasoned with garlic and garnished with slivers of
lime-juice marinated onion. Served with sweet potato and sweet corn on the
cob, to put out there for our famous aji pepper sauce.
Octopus Ceviche
$5.00
Tender slices of cooked octopus marinated in
lime juice and garlic. Served with marinated onion slivers, sweet
potato and corn on the cob.
Sea-Food Ceviche
$3.00
Sea bass, octopus, shrimp, and squid marinated
in lime juice, smothered in onion slivers with sweet potato and corn on
the cob. Can be dipped in aji pepper sauce.
Potato Huacaina
$1.50
Boiled potato slices, smothered in a delicious
cheese white sauce.
Causa Limena
Potato Puree, stuffed with jumbo shrimps with an
exciting onion sauce.
Special Assorted Seafood Platter
$6.50
A delicious platter of assorted sea-food
prepared in a variety of special ways--Serves 2.
Stuffed Potatoes
$2.00
Potato puree, stuffed with minced meat Peruvian
olives and covered with a delicious onion salad.
Anticuchos
$2.30
Bite Sized slices of pickled beef heart,
charcoal broiled and served with golden-browned potatoes and a light
Creole onion sauce
Chicken Cracklings
$2.75
Crispy strips of fried chicken, served with our
special tartar sauce.
Squid Cracklings
$3.15
Tender crispy strips of fried squid, served with
our special tartar sauce.
Shrimp Parmesan
$2.30
Delicious parmesan cheese a gratin shrimp
pieces, baked in small fan seashells.
Ceviche on-the-rocks
$3.00
A delicious specialty of Northern Peru served
hot.