Experts' Choice Award Restaurante Silvestre
What the experts agree on
Chef Santiago's creative tasting menus showcase Costa Rican ingredients with global techniques—the upstairs fine dining dazzles while the downstairs cantina offers relaxed, affordable takes on traditional Tico food.
Independent "Silvestre’s eight-course menu (affordable at £64 a head, or more for optional wine pairings) is a sophisticated crash course in Tico cuisine"
Lonely Planet Top Choice
"Chef Santiago has created a sensation upstairs with his six-course tasting menu. Equally enjoyable and more relaxed, the downstairs cantina serves variations on traditional cantina food" Full review
Fodor's "The regularly changing menus use local and organic ingredients to take diners on a journey into some of the most creative (and delicious) food Costa Rica has to offer." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Chef Santiago Fernández Benedetto, a native of the city, combines global cuisine influences with local ingredients for dishes like pasta with pesto made from culantro coyote"
