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DelRita Patty

Food & Coffee · Caribbean Coast · Food & coffee

Tiny family stand on Cahuita's main road selling Caribbean patís, baked pastries with beef or sweet pineapple filling, until they sell out; visitors say it is worth going early.

Hours
About 11:00-17:00 (Google listing); closes when patties sell out
Ratings
4.9 on Google (453)

Dishes to try

beef patí · pineapple patí · plantain patí · yucca patty (yucado)

Contact & directions

  • Phone: +506 2755 0032
  • Location: 9.737583, -82.839574 — Google Maps · Waze

Secret spots nearby

  • Cahuita Village (Main Street)Landmark · FreeLaid-back Afro-Caribbean beach village with one main street of wooden shops, sodas and bars, right at the edge of Cahuita National Park.
  • Cahuita National Park (Kelly Creek)Trail · about $2The donation-only entrance to Cahuita National Park at the edge of town: a flat beachside trail through the forest where sloths, howler monkeys and raccoons are very likely sightings.
  • Playa Blanca (Cahuita)Beach · about $2Cahuita National Park's main beach, a long arc of pale sand fringed by forest, just a short walk past the Kelly Creek entrance.
  • Playa Negra (Cahuita)Beach · Free · hidden gemA long black-sand beach on the north side of Cahuita village: palm-lined, quiet and a world away from the park crowds.
  • Punta Cahuita ReefNature spot · about $2The headland at the heart of Cahuita National Park, wrapped by the largest living coral reef on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, with parrotfish, rays and two colonial-era shipwrecks offshore.
  • Playa Puerto Vargas (Cahuita National Park south entrance)BeachLong beach and forest edge at the south end of Cahuita National Park, reached through the paid Puerto Vargas gate.