Fodor's Expert Review Café Mundo
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North and East of Downtown
Café
The upstairs café at this corner restaurant serves meals on a porch, on a garden patio, or in two dining rooms. Try the soup of the day and fresh-baked bread to start; main courses include shrimp in a vegetable cream sauce or lomito en salsa de vino tinto (tenderloin in a red-wine sauce). Save room for the best chocolate cake in town, drizzled with homemade blackberry sauce. Café Mundo is a popular, low-key gay hangout that draws a mixed gay-straight clientele. This is one of the few center-city restaurants with its own parking lot.
Quick Facts
C. 15, Avdas. 9–11
San José,
San José
10102,
Costa Rica
2222–6190
Known For:
- Popular LGBTQ hangout
- Delicious chocolate cake
- Place to see and be seen
Restaurant Details:
Rate Includes: Closed Sun. No lunch Sat.