Due to the number of foreigners living here, there's plenty of excellent restaurants to choose from. Israeli felafels, Argentinean wood-fired chicken, French-influenced seafood restaurants, sushi bars, Thai soups, Italian pizza, the list goes on. But the pick of the bunch is actually a humble Costa Rican soda situated RIGHT on the beach in Mal Pais about 2km from the intersection of Santa Teresa/Mal Pais. It's called Soda Piedra, it serves typical Costa Rican food, it's as cheap as chips, the staff are pretty grumpy, but the view up the jungled coastline is by far the best in the area. They do a scrumptious gallo pinto (beans and rice served with eggs), casados (full meals of meat/fish with rice and beans and veggies) for $4 and the fish here is as fresh (and inexpensive) as it gets, and is caught daily by the hard-fishing owner.