Top Spritz

Tourism Service in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Fire-oven Italian cooking in Playa Flamingo

Top Spritz is an Italian restaurant on the south side of Super Masai in Playa Flamingo, a small Guanacaste beach town between the marina and the white sand of Flamingo Beach. The kitchen is built around fire-oven pizza and homemade pasta, with chefs from Italy, table service, and a menu that includes vegetarian-friendly and vegan dishes. That mix is useful in a corridor where many rooms lean on grilled fish, burgers, or a casado plate, and where a sit-down Italian meal is a distinct evening choice rather than a default.

Flamingo is compact: beach in the morning, errands around the commercial cluster, dinner before the town goes quiet. Super Masai is one of the easiest landmarks on that loop, so the restaurant is simpler to aim for than a nameless side street. If you are staying in Potrero, Brasilito, or Reserva Conchal, this is still a short hop rather than a highway project. If you are based in Tamarindo, it becomes a dedicated evening drive north along the coast instead of another night on Tamarindo’s busier strip.

Pizza, pasta, seafood, and the bar

Order with the fire oven and the pasta board in mind. Pizzas come from a fire oven; pastas are homemade, with spaghetti and tagliatelle among the shapes, and seafood pasta sitting in the same Italian lane as the pies. Antipasto, salami, tarts, and steak widen the table when a group does not want pizza alone. The bar side of the room covers cocktails and wine, which makes this a full dinner stop rather than a slice window.

Vegetarian-friendly and vegan options matter if someone in the party does not eat meat or dairy. Say those needs when you sit down so sauces, cheeses, and seafood stock are not a surprise. For mixed tables, a practical split is one fire-oven pizza to share and a pasta or steak for whoever wants a plate. Seafood on this coast moves with what the kitchen has that night; if lobster pasta or a black-ink seafood dish is what you came for, mention it early rather than waiting until the oven is already committed to pies.

Cocktails and wine sit with the food, so you do not need a second venue for a drink. If wine is the point of the evening, ask what is actually open and what pairs with a tomato pie versus a cream or seafood pasta. Keep dessert and after-dinner liqueurs as a maybe: they appear in some meals and not in others, and they should not be the reason you skip a soda or a beachfront ceviche earlier in the day.

Finding the south side of Super Masai

The address is Lado Sur Super Masai, also written Lato Sud Super Masai, in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste. In local terms that is the south side of the Super Masai complex. The phone number is +506 4705 4255. No email is posted with the contacts, so the phone is the channel for hours, a wait, or a dietary question.

Most visitors reach Flamingo by rental car from Liberia, by taxi, or on foot from nearby lodgings. The Super Masai cluster is a working stop for groceries, so you can fold dinner into an errand run if that is how your day is shaped. After dark, give yourself a few extra minutes for parking and for walking from the car in a beach town that is still more village than city. If you are coming from Tamarindo, leave before you are already hungry; the point of the drive is a fire-oven Italian meal, not a race against closing.

Evening timing on the Guanacaste coast

Hours for Top Spritz are not consistent across public listings. Evening service is commonly shown around 17:00 to 22:00, and at least one schedule has Wednesday closed, while other listings show no hours and some tags still mention lunch. Treat this as a dinner restaurant until you hear otherwise, and use the phone before you drive over on a Wednesday, a holiday, or a peak-season Saturday.

Dry-season months, roughly December through April, fill Flamingo with visitors who want a sit-down meal after the beach. Wet-season weeknights are often easier if you prefer a quieter room. Fire-oven kitchens usually run a tighter window than all-day sodas; arriving near the start of dinner service is calmer than a late seating when pies are already stacked. If you are eating with children or heading out for an early wildlife tour the next morning, pin the opening time that day rather than arriving at 17:00 on a closed night.

Choosing an Italian room in Flamingo and Tamarindo

Playa Flamingo and Tamarindo together cover beachfront seafood, Costa Rican sodas, sushi, fusion rooms, and more than one Italian kitchen with an oven. Choose this restaurant when the goal is fire-oven pizza and homemade pasta in Flamingo, not a sunset deck or a tasting menu. The address is inland of the sand, next to a supermarket landmark, so it is the wrong tool if ocean view is the main requirement. It is the right tool if you want Italian cooking without driving all the way to Tamarindo, or if vegetarian and vegan plates need to be on the menu rather than improvised.

Filters that actually help on this coast: whether the oven is fire-based, whether pasta is made in house, whether vegan dishes are listed, and whether the room does table service. Top Spritz meets those on pizza, homemade pasta, vegetarian and vegan options, and table service. Seafood pasta and steak give a second path when one person wants a pie and another wants a plate. Group size and heat change the rest of the decision. A pizza-and-pasta room is usually easier for mixed ages than a fine-dining counter. If anyone needs vegan cooking, say so at the start.

If cocktails matter as much as the crust, you already have a bar on site.

Budget and dress on this stretch of coast are informal compared with city dining. Bring a light layer for a cooled dining room after a hot beach afternoon, and have a card and a little cash, because coastal restaurants vary in what they take. Share food if you are ordering both pizza and pasta; homemade noodles plus a fire-oven pie is a lot of food after a day of sun.

A Flamingo day that ends with Italian dinner

A straightforward visitor day here starts on Playa Flamingo or with a short drive to Playa Conchal’s shell beach, a grocery or marina walk in the afternoon, and an Italian dinner as the last indoor stretch. Flamingo winds down earlier than Tamarindo’s bar scene, so this meal fits an early night better than a crawl. Residents in the Flamingo–Potrero corridor can use it the same way: pizza and pasta without leaving town, with Super Masai as the meeting point.

If you are coming from Tamarindo, treat the drive as the outing and keep the rest of the evening simple. If you are already in Flamingo, you can walk or drive over after showers and still have the night. Either way, the distinctive pieces are the Italian kitchen, the fire oven, the homemade pasta, vegetarian and vegan options, and a location you can find by aiming at the south side of Super Masai. Call +506 4705 4255 if you need that day’s hours before you go.

Location

Phone: +506 4705 4255