Olga’s Place, San Ramón, and Pequeña Polonia, Atenas - Costa Rica

One activity we have always enjoyed doing is going out for breakfast or brunch. We’ve eaten at all of the restaurants that are open early for breakfast in the Grecia and surrounding area and had run out of places to eat at.

Lance came up with the great idea that we should start eating lunch at restaurants instead of breakfast - and our choices expanded enormously. So once a week each of us gets to choose where to have lunch.

First choice was Lance’s and he selected Olga’s Place in San Ramón, about a 35 minute drive from our house. I can recommend this restaurant - good food and fantastic views. We sat outside on a small covered patio. Our server was very nice and helpful. She suggested we have the red sangria and it was a good recommendation.

Menu photos:

My choice was the shrimp a la Diabla (and it was indeed spicy!):

Lance opted for pasta with jumbo shrimp:

Views from the restaurant:

We had occasion to drive to Atenas this past week - the town where we lived for six years when we first moved to Costa Rica. We had a craving for cabbage rolls and new reading material and the best place for both of these is Pequeña Polonia (Little Poland). This is the restaurant originally known as Kay’s Gringo Postres, owned by Kay and Tom Costello. It was one of the first restaurants we ate at in Atenas. There has always been a free lending library there and we’ve never run out of reading material in ten years.

The present owners are from Poland via Canada. Their menu reflects their background - the cabbage rolls are so good! I always order them with the dill sauce.

Take-away cabbage rolls with two salads (carrot and cucumber) and mashed potatoes:

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