El Cafecito Santa Cruz
Food & Coffee · Guanacaste · Café and breakfast
Cozy café in an old house in the middle of Santa Cruz, the cowboy town of Guanacaste, with casados, milkshakes and vegan options. Rated 4.6 on Google.
Dishes to try
casado · batidos · desayunos
Contact & directions
- Phone: +506 2680-1404
- Location: 10.259702, -85.584043 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Parroquia Santo Cristo de Esquipulas (Santa Cruz)Landmark · FreeSanta Cruz's parish church holds the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas, a dark crucifix that draws pilgrims every January; the old pink bell tower stands beside the modern church.
- Parque Bernabela Ramos (Santa Cruz)Park · FreeThe shady central plaza of Santa Cruz, best known for its domed stone kiosk carved with Chorotega-style motifs.
- Plaza Los Mangos (Santa Cruz)Park · FreeThe square also known as Plaza López, in Costa Rica's 'folklore city', where the wooden bullring and grandstands go up every January for the Fiestas de Santa Cruz in honor of the Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.
- Guaitil Pottery VillageLocal shop · FreeA village where families still make Chorotega-style pottery by hand — coiled, burnished with stones, painted with natural clay pigments and fired in wood kilns — and sell it from their front porches.
- Humedal Lacustrino Río CañasNature spotA protected wetland created in 1994, managed by the Tempisque Conservation Area.
- Parque Nacional Diriá (ranger station)Park · hidden gemA little-visited forest park south of Santa Cruz in the Nicoya Peninsula highlands, with tropical and cloud forest, deep river valleys and a ranger station that starts two trails, one to the seasonal Brasil waterfall.