Teca Beach

Very good grilled fish. Room for service improvement. Please be careful you need to pay for tap water: 5 dollars per bottle. The reason was that it was “purified”. My guide told me that we can drink tap water in all Costa rica safely without any purification except in the poas vulcano region close to san José.

I stopped here one evening for a snack. It was quiet when I was there and I enJoYed singing along to the classic rock being played! My server was really helpful in assisting me with dietary requirements. The kitchen prepared some homemade vegetable chips of plaintain, sweet potato and yuca instead of the bread, which were great. I believe a mark of a good business is their ability to serve the different needs of their customers. Thank you Guys!

I hardly like reviews like this, but I would hate for other people to waste a ridiculous amount of money as I did. STAY AWAY from this place if you know what halfway decent food tastes like. I have eaten at many restaurants across the globe, good and bad. I cannot think of a worse meal. The appetizers (fried fish with some kind of mango sauce, and hummus and “garlic bread”) were entirely flavorless. I’ve never had a warm piña colada but I had my first here. My partner and I ordered a daily special, a filet mignon and grilled shrimp. We asked for the steak to be cooked medium rare. It was medium well. The shrimp was the worst i’ve ever had. Overcooked and definitely previously frozen, and worst of all had no seasoning WHATSOVER. Not even salt. In fact, one tasted like dish soap. The burger was no good either, and cost 13,000 colones ($26) WITHOUT FRIES (which taste like drinking sunflower oil), and the most measly strips of bacon I have ever seen. The cheese wasn’t even fully melted, and the bun was dry and crumbly. Unfortunately, I had spend all day traveling so was quite literally starving. We do not like to waste food so we finished most of it and did not complain, and after eating 75% of it, my partner said the aftertaste was like when you drink way too much after a night out and end up regurgitating it back into the toilet. The service was good and our waitress was very nice, but I am in actual disbelief with how awful this food was. Maybe I would be less upset if the prices were in the same universe as the quality.