Gracia La Vid

Tourism Service in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Gracia La Vid is an indoor-outdoor eatery and lounge in Playa Brasilito, a short drive from Playa Flamingo on Guanacaste's Gold Coast. The kitchen turns out gourmet wood-fire pizza, house-made pasta, salads, and cheese plates, while the bar pours hand-crafted cocktails, craft beer, and an extensive wine list. Food is served family style to the center of the table, so the night is built for sharing rather than a stack of separate entrees.

Wood-fire pizza, pasta, and the bar

Dinner is the meal. The menu is grouped as pizza, pasta, salads, and cheeseboards, which makes it easy to feed a mixed table without wandering into a long, unrelated list of dishes. Wood-fire pizza is the main draw. House-made pasta is the other. Cheese plates and salads give you a slower start or a lighter plate if the rest of the table wants a pie.

That format works for two people as cleanly as it does for a larger group. A pair can split a pizza and a salad. A bigger table can add pasta and a cheeseboard and still keep the order simple. Because plates are meant to be shared, you do not need everyone to commit to the same dish. Pass the pizza, keep the salad in the middle, and let the oven set the pace.

The bar is part of the same evening. Hand-crafted cocktails and craft beer sit beside an extensive wine list, so you can open with a cocktail, settle into wine with the food, or make the bottle the point of the night. If wine is why you came, start with the list and build the pizza and pasta around the bottle. If the group is more cocktail-minded, start there and let pizza follow.

Indoor seating and the teak deck

La Vid reads as a lounge as much as a restaurant: indoor and outdoor space, a low-key beachy mood, and a soundtrack of ambient-electro with infusions of house and funk. Outside, an outdoor teak deck is set with comfortable loungers, fire pits, and string lighting. That deck is the distinctive setting for a long sitting after the beach, when the air has cooled and nobody is in a hurry to leave.

Indoor seats cover the same kitchen when you want a more enclosed table. Either way, this is a proper dinner, not a snack on the sand. Come from Flamingo or Brasilito in easy evening clothes; you will be at a shared table with wine service, not a beach grill.

Family-style plating suits the deck. The fire pits and string lights encourage people to stay for another glass after the last slice. Plan the night as the main evening activity. This is not a quick in-and-out stop between other bookings.

Hours, Route 180, and how to get there

La Vid serves dinner Tuesday through Sunday from 4:00 pm, with last seating at 9:30 pm, and it is closed on Monday. If you are coming from a late sunset at Flamingo or Conchal, call ahead to see whether a table is still possible.

The 4:00 pm opening is earlier than many Gold Coast dinners and is useful for families, for people who eat soon after the beach, and for anyone who prefers not to drive Route 180 late. Last seating at 9:30 pm means the kitchen is not a midnight option. Put swimming and sun in the first half of the day, then make this the evening.

The restaurant is at 500 meters east of Patagonia Del Mar, on Route 180 between Patagonia Del Mar, Brasilito, and Aqua y Sal, in Brasilito 50308. Off-street parking is available if you are in a rental car. From Playa Flamingo, Potrero, or Playa Conchal the drive is short. From Tamarindo it is a longer, dedicated dinner trip. Taxis and hotel drivers along the Flamingo-Brasilito corridor know the village. After dark, give the road a few extra minutes.

Phone +506 7054 3498 or email info@graciacostarica.com if you are a larger group or arriving close to last seating. Mastercard and Visa are accepted.

Birthdays, tastings, and private nights

Gracia hosts special events at two places. Gracia Mar Vista is a larger, elegant room with ocean views, used for weddings, engagement parties, milestone birthdays, chef tastings, and business meetings. Gracia La Vid is the intimate option, with a loungy, boho atmosphere that suits birthdays and more casual gatherings.

The group takes weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and other celebrations, plus chef tastings and private bookings. Private chef tastings are set up as exclusive use of the space, a custom menu, and service from Chef Frankie, built around fresh local ingredients. For a smaller, casual celebration, La Vid is the room to ask about. For vows, a terrace, and a bigger guest list, Mar Vista is the other address.

When you get in touch, have a date, an approximate headcount, start and end times, and a sense of whether you want a pizza-and-wine gathering or a seated tasting. Phone and email are enough to begin.

A Gold Coast evening that ends in Brasilito

Brasilito sits between its own wide beach and the hotels, marina, and bay around Playa Flamingo. A day that ends at La Vid usually starts on the water—swimming at Brasilito or Flamingo, a boat from the marina, or a slow morning in town. Midday heat in Guanacaste pushes people into shade or a pool. By late afternoon, the 4:00 pm opening lines up with the first comfortable hour to sit outside.

Choose a wood-fire pizza and pasta lounge when the table wants to share, when wine or cocktails matter as much as the food, and when a teak deck sounds better than eating on the sand. Look elsewhere if you need lunch, a Monday table, or a kitchen that runs late into the night. If Monday is your only evening in the area, pick another Brasilito or Flamingo restaurant.

Bring a car or a ride, a card, and enough time to sit down before last seating. At the table, the decisions are small: pizza, pasta, or both; a salad or a cheese plate to start; cocktails or the wine list. For visitors staying in Flamingo, this is a nearby village dinner, not a long excursion. For anyone already in Brasilito, it is a short hop along Route 180.

Leave space after the food. The lounge side of the night—fire pits, string lighting, another glass—is as much the point as the oven. Share the pizza, pass the pasta, and take Route 180 home while the drive is still easy. Beach first, wood-fire pizza and house-made pasta second, and a slow finish on the deck is a solid shape for a day in this stretch of Guanacaste.

Location

Phone: +506 7054 3498