Bar y Restaurante La Cabaña

Restaurant in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Bar y Restaurante La Cabaña sits 150 meters east of the Banco Nacional in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, in the 50304 postal area. It is a bar and restaurant whose menu runs from a típico breakfast and avocado toasts through carpaccios, plantain baskets, casados, ceviche, salads, mains, fast food, desserts, and a drinks list of smoothies, milkshakes, cocktails, liquors, and other beverages. Delivery is offered with a ₡15,000 minimum and a 15-to-25-minute window, and the phone number is +506 7191 8561.

Finding the door east of Banco Nacional

Flamingo still gives directions in meters from a landmark. Banco Nacional is the pin: from the bank, continue east about 150 meters. The town sits on the 911 corridor in Guanacaste, the same coastal road that ties Flamingo to Potrero and the turn toward Brasilito and Conchal.

If you are coming from inland Cartagena or the Santa Cruz hills, treat the trip as a short drive, not a walk. Many villa guests use Flamingo for a half day of beach, a meal, and a bank or grocery stop. If you already have a rental near the commercial strip, the bank corner is close, though heat and thin sidewalks make a taxi or a parked car easier than a long midday walk.

Taxis work this town, and almost everyone moves on the two-lane 911. Leave a little extra time when tour vans and Saturday shopping slow the road between the marina, the main bay, and Potrero.

Carpaccios, plantain baskets, casados, and ceviche

Starters are specific. Three carpaccios—lomito, salmon, and tuna—are each ₡12,000. A plantain basket with shrimp is ₡7,000; with beef or chicken it is ₡6,000. Patacones arreglados are ₡6,000. Cheese sticks and guacamole with chips are ₡5,000 each. Those plates work as a shared first round at a table or as something substantial with drinks.

Casados and ceviche have their own sections. A casado is the Costa Rican plate built around rice, beans, salad, plantain, and a protein. Ceviche is the lime-cured seafood you eat all along this coast. Mains, salads, and a fast-food section sit on the same board, with desserts after. In Flamingo the useful habit is to hear what fish is in and which casado proteins are running before you order.

Drinks are not an afterthought. Smoothies and milkshakes sit next to cocktails, liquors, and other beverages, which is the usual shape of a Guanacaste bar-restaurante: a full meal, a cold drink after the beach, or both without changing rooms.

Breakfast before the bay

Breakfast is its own block. The típico plate is ₡5,000. Avocado toast with ham is ₡4,000, avocado toast with eggs is ₡4,500, and cream cheese toast with strawberry jam is ₡3,000.

A típico in this province is the plate people eat before a boat, a drive to Liberia, or a long morning on the sand—eggs, cheese, tortillas or bread, and usually gallo pinto or plantain. The toasts are the lighter, faster option. Hours open at 08:00. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday run until midnight; Friday, Saturday, and Sunday run until 02:30; Wednesday is closed. If you arrive late morning, a quick phone call is the clean way to know whether breakfast is still coming out.

Delivery when you would rather stay in

Delivery quotes 15 to 25 minutes with a ₡15,000 minimum. That minimum is larger than one toast or a guacamole, so it fits a household order—several casados, a ceviche, drinks—better than a solo snack. Use +506 7191 8561.

Condos without a car often do better with delivery than with circling the bank block at lunch. If you are already in town, walking over for breakfast or a late plate avoids the minimum. Keep some colones as a backup for beach-town bills.

Friday and Saturday evenings in high season fill along this strip. Weekend hours until 02:30 mean dinner can run late, so groups do better arriving on the early side rather than at 19:00 with a large table.

A Flamingo day around one meal

Mornings here belong to the main bay, coffee, and errands at the bank and the small shops around it. Midday is hot, and many people eat then rest. Late afternoon thickens traffic toward the marina and Potrero. Nights are informal: dinner, a cocktail, then either sleep before a tour or a long sitting.

Breakfast at 08:00 or 09:00 pairs with a snorkel or a drive south to Conchal and Brasilito. Ceviche and patacones work after swimming, when you want something cold. Dinner can be a carpaccio to share and a casado, then a milkshake or a cocktail if you are not driving 911 in the dark.

When you compare this bar-restaurante with oceanfront rooms in Potrero or a bakery by the bank, decide what you actually need. A breakfast section matters if you have an early boat. A separate ceviche line matters after the beach. Carpaccios and plantain baskets matter if the table wants to share. Delivery minimum and window matter if you are feeding a rental. This address is a town kitchen east of Banco Nacional, useful when you are already on that block or staying nearby.

Choosing among Flamingo's casual kitchens

For a small town, Flamingo packs in seafood rooms, bakeries, pizza, and other bar-restaurantes within minutes of the same bank. Match the kitchen to the meal. Gallo pinto and eggs point you toward a breakfast section. Lime-cured fish points you toward ceviche. Shared plates point you toward carpaccios and canastas de plátano. Food sent to a villa points you toward a stated minimum and a time window—here, ₡15,000 and 15 to 25 minutes.

Before you commit a drive from Cartagena or a taxi from Potrero, it helps to know whether the kitchen is firing, what fish is in the ceviche, which protein is on the casado, and whether the típico is still available after mid-morning. For delivery, confirm the minimum that day and whether they reach your side of Flamingo.

Sunscreen off the table, a light layer for the evening breeze, and a plan for colones or card will cover most visits. Drivers should park once and walk the bank block. Anyone drinking should use a taxi on 911 rather than the unlit road back toward Potrero or inland.

The useful picture is simple: a known spot 150 meters east of Banco Nacional, a menu that names its carpaccios, plantain baskets, casados, ceviche, and breakfast toasts, and a delivery option when you want the same food at a rental. Fit the plate to the hour, and the rest of Flamingo—the bay, the bank, and the road south—arranges itself around the meal.

Location

Phone: +506 7191 8561