JP’s Bar & Grill

Tourism Service in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

A sports bar across from Marina Flamingo

JP's Bar & Grill is a sports bar and restaurant in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, on Ruta Nacional Secundaria 180 across from Marina Flamingo. The room is built for live games, grill food, and a full bar in the compact marina district of this small Pacific beach town.

Playa Flamingo concentrates its beach, marina, and restaurants in a short stretch. A sports bar is useful when you want screens and a familiar plate without leaving the marina area for Tamarindo or inland towns. You can walk from many marina-side stays, or arrive by car or golf cart from rentals farther along the beach road.

Burgers, shrimp, salads, and desserts

The food is American bar and grill cooking. Burgers sit at the center of the menu, including the Western Burger, a Santa Fe burger, a seared fish burger, and a classic burger. Kamehachi shrimp is a standout plate, and pulled pork is served as a sandwich. Lighter plates include a summer salad and a southwestern salad.

Appetizers include nachos, jalapeño poppers, chicken wings, a chips trio, buffalo tofu, and cauliflower wings. Mary's cheesecake is a house dessert, and brownie with ice cream is the other sweet to know.

Lunch and dinner both run, with table service and takeout. That split is practical in Flamingo, where one person may want to sit through a match and another may want food back at a villa. American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa are accepted. Parking is available, along with street parking.

Cocktails, watermelon juice, and local drafts

Drinks share the menu with the grill. Cocktails and bar pours include a Hugo Spritz, Cantarito, Bourbon Volcano, Bloody Mary, Bay Breeze, Chiliguaro, Mary Good, and a kombucha michelada. Watermelon juice sits on the non-alcoholic side of the same list.

Draft beer is a rotating selection from Costa Rican breweries, spanning lagers and pilsners, hoppy IPAs, and smoother ales. If your table is split between beer and cocktails, both are on the same bar.

The useful questions at the table are which drafts are pouring that day and which games are already on the screens. Because the beers rotate, glance at the taps before you order.

When the kitchen is open

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday hours are 15:00 to 22:00. Saturday and Sunday open earlier, from 11:00 to 22:00. Tuesday is closed.

Weekend late-morning hours line up with beach mornings and boats that return before lunch. Weekday service starts in mid-afternoon, so a post-snorkel meal on Monday or Wednesday belongs later in the day. If Tuesday is your only free evening, use another restaurant in the marina cluster.

For a full sit-down meal, arrive with time to spare before 22:00. Weekend afternoons and nights with major matches are the busy windows in a town this size.

Finding the door on Ruta 180

The address is C6Q6+M3C, Ruta Nacional Secundaria 180, Playa Flamingo 50308. The plus code puts you in the marina and commercial strip, not on the far curve of the beach. From marina-area hotels and most Flamingo Beach Road rentals, the trip is short.

If you are driving from Potrero, Brasilito, or the Tamarindo corridor, Ruta 180 is the main approach. Sunset is when beach traffic, marina drop-offs, and dinner arrivals overlap, so a little extra time then is enough. Street parking and available parking help if you are in a rental car rather than a golf cart.

Phone +506 8925 8663 and email info@jpsbarandgrill.com cover takeout timing, a large group, or whether a particular match will be on.

Picking a grill in a marina town

Flamingo dining runs from marina seafood rooms and taco counters to cafés and a handful of grills. A sports bar is the right pick when you want televisions, burgers, wings, and a beer or cocktail at an informal pace. It is the wrong pick if you want a quiet fish dinner with no screens.

Ask what is on tap, which games are showing, how hot the wings or poppers run, and whether a fish burger, salad, or tofu plate can cover a mixed table. For dessert, Mary's cheesecake and the brownie with ice cream are the two sweets to know.

Come with a card and, if you like, colones for small extras. Guanacaste afternoons are hot; a light cover-up is enough after dark. Shake off beach sand before you sit. This is a restaurant on the marina strip, not a palapa on the tide line.

Fitting a meal into a Flamingo day

A Flamingo day usually starts on the wide beach, moves onto a catamaran, snorkel trip, or pool, and ends with a meal near the marina. On Saturday or Sunday you can come off the sand at 11:00 for a burger and a match. On weekdays the 15:00 opening pairs with a late lunch after a morning charter or an early dinner before a quiet night.

Takeout helps when the group is split, kids are done for the day, or a villa is too far for a late walk back. Eat after a boat if you want a heavier plate and the screens; eat before sunset if you still want time on the beach.

If you are landing in Liberia and driving south, a weekday arrival still leaves room for dinner after check-in. A Tuesday itinerary needs another kitchen. Sports fans come for the screens. Everyone else can plan around the marina-side address, the Tuesday close, weekend hours from 11:00, and the mix of burgers, Kamehachi shrimp, cocktails, and local drafts.

Location

Phone: +506 8925 8663