Monday nights are all-you-can-eat sushi down at Chile Rojo in the Puerto Viejo town center for $12.
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Though you'll find a variety of different toppings, the most popular pizza is the Rustic $12, a hearty tomato sauce and a layer of fresh mozzarella topped with ham, salami and bacon sprinkled with rosemary laid out on a wooden block straight from the oven. Follow your nose and you might just end up at A Mi Modo, where there is sure to be fresh baked pizzas in its wood-fired oven. Walk down the main street that cuts through central Puerto Viejo and you're sure to find more than one of each. Puerto Viejo's restaurants are a reflection of its international community: Costa Rican, Spanish, German, American, Asian and Italian. Live music starts about an hour before sunset dousing patrons with smiling calypso and languid reggae rhythms. But for the best place to enjoy those dwindling twilight hours, head over to the Lazy Mon's shaded patio beside the sand and sea of Salsa Brava. to 6 p.m., you can get two-for-one drinks at any bar in town for $6. Happy hour runs like wildfire through Puerto Viejo. Located seaside on Playa Chino, Deelite scoops locally-flavored gelato like passion fruit, mango, chocolate orange and dulce de leche into cups and cones for $2 to $5. Humor your sweet tooth with homemade artisanal gelato at Deelite.The meal is a little bit of a splurge, but it's worth it. Top it off with an ice cold local brew, Imperial or Pilsen, for $2. Taste Mopri's specialty the mixed seafood plate, $13, clams, mussels, calamari, octopus, shrimp and fish tossed in a creamy, Cahuita rum reduction. Mopri is the local favorite for fresh seafood and leisurely extended lunches.Try the Caribbean-style chicken, pork and beef (pick one) marinated in herbs and spices, slow-cooked and served with coconut-milk-simmered rice and beans, crispy patacones (fried green plantains) and salad all for about $6. Tasty, cheap and different than the rest of the country, Caribbean sodas infuse their food with rich and bold flavors. With the sun reaching its zenith and your shadow having all but vanished, duck for cover in any of Puerto Viejo's local sodas (small, family owned restaurants). Monday through Saturday and cost $15 per person. Visit with monkeys, sloths, deer, snakes and jungle cats at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Playa Chiquita.
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Cruise around Puerto Viejo then ride up the coast to Playa Cocles, Playa Chiquita and Manzanillo enjoying the town, the forest and the ocean along the way.