Lunch - El Mirador de San Luis Restaurant, Grecia

In late November of 2022, we went to El Mirador de San Luis for lunch. Here are our driving routes:

We took a different route going home. As is true of all of Costa Rica, the vistas are stunning. “Mirador” means lookout and the restaurant is aptly named. 

Some of the views:

For lunch I ordered the seafood soup and Lance decided on rice with shrimp:

Lance ordered an Imperial beer. I like the way they serve beer with ice here.

Beautiful setting and the food was good. As we were leaving, we met a gentleman walking his dogs and enjoying a glass of red wine as he walked along. There are a lot of dogs and dog owners in this area!

We made a wrong turn as we left the restaurant and stopped to ask him for directions. You can hear our discussion on the dash cam video which I have posted below. Some of the views while driving downhill were spectacular.

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Dim Sum in Sarchi, Alajuela, Grecia!

I had read good reviews about Bar Restaurante Sabor Oriental in Sarchi, a town about a 20 minute drive from our house in San Roque de Grecia. So we decided to drive there and try it out for ourselves.

Map of our drive:

When I looked at their menu on line, I discovered that they served dim sum, one of our favourite traditional Chinese meals. All prices indicated are in Costa Rican colones.

We ordered the ha koa, the siu mai, the lao won bao and the empanadas chino al vapor (steamed not fried), aka gyoza.

The traditional drink to have with dim sum is tea but we opted for frosty cold Imperial beers.

When the food arrived, I was so busy eating it that I forgot to take pictures but did remember at the last moment and so here we have a photo of two of the items we ordered:

The dim sum was excellent. We will definitely be going back here for dim sum. It’s so much closer then driving to the Asian restaurants in San José.

We made a dash cam video of our drive to Sarchi:

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