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Distinct restaurants across one connected estate, all open to guests of any of the three Costa Rica resorts.
Culinary classes: wine, cooking, coffee, mixology, and rum, each a skill you carry home.
The culinary tourism market by 2033, growing nearly 22% a year. One in five travelers now book trips for the food.
One rainforest, three kitchens
Imagine the intimacy and privacy of your own secluded hotel, with access to the culinary world of three world-class properties.
That is what awaits at Nayara Gardens, Nayara Springs, and Nayara Tented Camp in Costa Rica's Arenal region. Each property keeps its own character and quiet, yet guests share one ecosystem of dining that turns a stay into a journey through a single magical rainforest. You are not choosing between three hotels. You are choosing one interconnected destination where culinary excellence is at every turn.
The culinary tourism market, valued at $16.1 billion in 2025, is projected to reach $76.4 billion by 2033, and nearly one in five travelers now book trips specifically to explore food. At Nayara, food is not a service. It is a vocabulary, spoken across six restaurants, five bars, and five immersive classes.
Where it all begins
La Terraza is the open-air family restaurant, serving local and international cuisine with Arenal volcano views from every table, only local produce and fresh fish and meat, hundreds of wines, and live music nightly. At the adjacent Bar Azul, the bartender invents tropical drinks on the spot.
Asia Luna is a culinary crossroads, pairing Costa Rica's fresh produce with Asian technique. Try the signature Nayara Roll with sweet plantain, or the grilled yellowfin tuna, at an intimate spot with an outdoor terrace and an inside sushi bar.
Nostalgia Wine Bar pours Latin American and European vintages through an Italian dispensing system, in a warm room of leather, wood, and candlelight. A certified sommelier leads tastings that illuminate terroir and vintage, always in service of pleasure, never pedantry.
Elevated dining
Amor Loco, the signature restaurant at Nayara Springs Relais & Châteaux, is a curated journey through Costa Rica's flavors: small, creative plates that pair pejibaye with coffee and fresh seafood, mixing tradition with innovation.
Mis Amores showcases Northern Italian cooking from old family recipes, wood-fired pizzas and a live-cheese pasta finished tableside, with Arenal framed from every outdoor table.
And at Mi Cafecito, the journey runs from cherry to cup, tracing Costa Rica's 200 years of coffee heritage and the bright, chocolatey, smoky notes of Arenal's beans.
Fire, earth, and open air
At Nayara Tented Camp, Ayla serves modern Mediterranean cuisine with a Middle Eastern touch, and it is here that cooking with fire reaches its fullest expression. The open-fire grill is central: meats slow-cooked over native hardwoods, vegetables charred to sweetness, even desserts touched by smoke.
Lamb kofta, grilled octopus, flatbreads from the wood-fired oven, and mezze for sharing arrive in an elegant open-air tent above the infinity pool, with the volcano beyond. Afterward, Henry's Bar next door offers a fireplace, a library, and a well-made cocktail while time slows.
Gelato by day, cocktails by dark
Lyla's Gelato at Nayara Gardens is handcrafted in small batches with Italian technique and Costa Rican ingredients: guanabana, cas, local Caribbean chocolate, churned fresh daily. It is perfect for families, where a child tasting guanabana for the first time turns dessert into discovery.
When the sun sets, the bars come alive. Lapa's Pool Bar at Nayara Springs keeps it tropical, cocktails built on fresh juices, local rum, and garden herbs with the infinity pool and volcano behind. Las Thermas Bar at Tented Camp serves drinks poolside at the hot springs, a passion fruit mojito while you soak beneath the stars. And Henry's Bar leans intimate, with Costa Rican spirits, guaro, rum, and coffee liqueur, mixed beside the fire pit.
Five classes that transform
Why simply eat when you can learn, create, and carry the experience home? Five signature classes go deeper into Costa Rican culinary culture.
Wine Tasting at Nostalgia moves through five to seven wines, each with a paired bite. The Cooking Class at Ayla teaches open-fire technique and Costa Rican-Mediterranean fusion, hands-on, family welcome. The Coffee Class is a two-hour journey from cherry to cup, and you take home beans you roasted yourself. The Mixology Class makes you a bartender for an afternoon. The Rum Tasting moves through five rums aged from two to twenty-three years.
These are not tourist add-ons. They are invitations to understand a culture through its flavors, and to take a piece of Costa Rica home.
At Nayara, food is not a service. It is a vocabulary
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One rainforest, every flavor
Stay at one of the three connected Costa Rica resorts and dine across all of them.
