Best Things We Ate in Uvita, Costa Rica
Dining in Uvita operates by a different set of rules — ones that the best restaurants here have learned to follow with impressive results. Open-air structures that blur the boundary between interior and jungle, furniture crafted from local materials that would look at home in a well-curated design shop, and a commitment to the view as an organizing design principle. In a region this naturally dramatic, the restaurants that succeed are the ones that understand how to frame what's already there.
"In a region this naturally dramatic, restraint is the most sophisticated design choice a restaurant can make."
The cuisine follows accordingly: produce-forward, locally sourced, plated with the same lightness that defines the architecture around it. In Uvita, the best meal is inseparable from the setting in which it's served — and the best restaurants understand that completely.

