El Chivo
Food & Coffee · Nicoya Peninsula · Lunch
A Nosara staple since 2009, nicknamed the town's 'Cheers': tacos, burritos, sandwiches and burgers with solid vegetarian options, local craft beer, a kids' menu and games. Taco Tuesday is when locals pack the place.
Dishes to try
tacos · burritos · burgers
Before you go
- Kids
- Good for kids
- Fewer people
- Taco Tuesday is the busiest – and liveliest – night.
- Checked
- 2026-10
Contact & directions
- Website: https://www.chivorepublic.net/
- Phone: +506 2682 0887
- Location: 9.956209, -85.671982 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Playa PeladaBeach · FreeNosara's smaller, calmer beach, with rocky points, low-tide pools, shady trees and a blowhole that fires spray around the turn of the tide.
- Pelada–Guiones Trail & Lookout (Nosara NCA trails)Trail · FreeNosara's beaches are tied together by about 9 km of forest trails that the Nosara Civic Association protects on some 250 hectares through Guiones, Pelada and Boca Nosara.
- Reserva Biológica Nosara (river mouth and tide flats)Nature spot · hidden gemWhere the Nosara River meets the Pacific: rocky tide flats and tide pools, a sandbar river mouth and plenty of pelicans, terns and shorebirds.
- Playa Nosara (Boca Nosara)Beach · FreeA long, peaceful stretch north of Playa Pelada, inside the Ostional refuge, where fishermen still haul their boats up the sand and the Nosara River reaches the sea.
- Playa GuionesBeach · FreeNosara's long surf beach: forgiving, consistent waves on a sandy bottom and a green, forested shoreline with no buildings on the sand.
- Playa GarzaBeach · Free · hidden gemA calm, reef-sheltered bay between Sámara and Nosara with a fishing village in the middle, tide pools at the rocky ends and shade from trees along the sand.
Sources: https://www.chivorepublic.net/