Beach Breakfast In Sámara To Beach Dinner In Flamingo: Food Fight Friday

My gosh, Friday just keeps popping up on me and I find time speeding along quicker than I can wrap my head around.

Buenas tardes mi favorito amigos y amigas! Dandays and I have been away from our current pad this week to spend a few days in a semi neighboring beach town. We drove 2 hours south along the coast and parked at Sámara Beach, Costa Rica. Neither of us had ever been there before, both of us got a great vibe upon entering town, and the place we stayed at was pretty neat.

We stayed above a souvenir tienda (souvenir shop), right on the Main Street so we could see the open bars, restaurants, beach peeps all from our kitchen window. It was pretty rad. Dandays even got out of the shower one morning to a brand new “Pura Vida” tank top I copped from the store below. You can’t have too many tank tops here, I swear.

The beach itself is pretty cool in that there were a ton of restaurants just lined up on the water there. You could literally come out of the ocean and walk up to any one of 15 or so restaurants for a bite to eat or a cold libation. Of course the seafood is on point, and of course yours truly sampled a lot of it.

It’s a trip doing what we are doing right now. It’s almost as if life isn’t real at the moment but like it’s a dream I’m about to wake up from. Mind you, it’s not without it’s many challenges, but everything is so brand new, an adventure waiting to be discovered around the corner, there’s absolutely no time for boredom or complacency.

Sometimes I miss the comforts of home, the knowledge of everything familiar, the accessibility to everything one may desire but usually those thoughts are quickly replaced with the excitement of our next mission. It’s actually a smidgen of work to bounce around trying to figure out where you want to plant yourself. Plans are constantly changing and being re-coconstructed by us so both of us are definitely kept on our toes.

When we woke up Thursday morning to check out of our place in Sámara our entire “future” plans had changed. Sámara was an eye opening experience that may have closed a window or two but opened a plethora of doors that are about to put the “venture” in adventure. Dandays and I are all good as long as God is leading us and he’s always leading us. As I ramble I’m sure you’re wondering “what in the heck, where is your @foodfightfriday post puravidaville?”

Yeah, yea, I’m getting there… I didn’t cook a whole lot this week because we were gone and my eating out will probably look pretty boring to all you normal eating lucky blusterds, so, I present to you, on Food Fight Friday, a Beach Breakfast in Samara and a Beach Dinner in Flamingo… it’ll work for a triple F post, right?!?

Thursday morning we woke up from our initial “plan”, hungry and a bit drained. I didn’t have anything to make breakfast at the spot before checking out so we both took showers and got out early to head to breakfast. As you may know my dietary restrictions really put us in a minimal option situation, so it’s my job to find the place that has something on the menu I can eat. This sometimes takes more time than we have patience for. Lucky for us I scoped this place the day before while eating lunch…

I don’t know what comes to your mind when you hear “Costa Rican food” but I used to think of all the Mexican food staples. You know, enchiladas, guacamole, empanadas, tamales, beans, chips, salsa, margaritas, the list is endless. However, now that we live here I realize just how silly that thought was. You can find cuisine from all over the world here- I swear. There’s Thai, Chinese, pizza, Italian, American, French, Mediterranean, (yum, falafel 😋), and just about anything else you can think of.

The outdoor French cafe that moonlights as a yoga studio had a menu that worked for me so French cafe it is. It also amazes me how many people come from other places to live in Costa Rica and how many languages they can speak. Dandays and I really need to up our language game…

The guy running the joint was really sweet. He totally worked with me and my dietary restrictions and we came up with a pretty delicious and what I consider healthy breakfast.

I don’t know about you but the guacahummus was calling my name on that menu. I swear I’m so deprived right now 🤦🏼‍♀️ All of the bread is made fresh that day, the fruit looked super ripe and juicy, the coffee drinks just smelled magnificent and the pastries, my God, the pastries- all of which I could have zero of. Dude hooked me up though. He said he was going to put together a 3 egg omelette with fresh herbs, tomato, sweet peppers, onions, and pair it with fresh avocado and cut tomato. I was all in on that deal.

We turned around to find a seat and wait for our food and this is what we saw…

Yep, those tables seats are actually swings. Dope, right? We actually see this kind of thing semi often here 🧐. But we preferred a stationary seat so we kept looking…

The high table in the middle looked comfortable enough. We took our seats and I began to check out the joint even more. It’s hard to tell we are in Costa Rica from the pictures, don’t you think?

The cafe was real cute, and the WiFi was fast considering where we were, that’s always a plus. Not that we are on our phones while we are at a restaurant (it’s actually a rule of ours to stay off our phones in eating places) but when we are traveling we sometimes need to map routes, find other destinations, etc, so WiFi is great.

Finally, our food has arrived. Both of us were getting a little hangrilicious waiting. My plate was dropped in front of me and I was immediately jealous of @Dandays plate. He had fresh bread, paninied with pesto, peppers, eggplant, veggies, oh my and I had my omelette I described earlier. The food was good, I was thankful the guy who took care of us went out of his way to hook me up; I’m just over omelettes right now. I ate every bite anyway and thought “I can make it up at dinner” 🤡.

Before heading out I needed to find the bathroom. A lot of restaurant bathrooms are a little different than what you might be used to. Most are outside (atleast in beach towns) and all ask you to put your toilet paper in the waste basket rather than the toilet. You’ll rarely find a toilet seat cover so your squatting game gets on point pretty quickly 😉.

Coming out of the bathroom I ran right into this huge area that I don’t know how I missed before…

A huge, outdoor, mirrored, yoga platform that opens right up to the restaurant cafe. Now that guacahummus makes so much more sense to me (not that it didn’t make sense before but you know, yoga and guacahummus go hand and hand). Doesn’t it look like a cool yoga spot?

And when I turn my back to the yoga platform and take a picture, it’s the cafe seating area. I thought it was pretty neat but then again I’m a nerd and anything “healthy” food wise, spiritual wise, gets me all excited (even if I can’t eat all of it).

After taking a few pictures we got back in the car and headed back up toward the beach town we are currently in. The drive was supposed to be a little over two hours. About half way through Dandays spotted a firestone auto shop and wanted to pull in to get our brakes checked out. Believe it or not you got to just pounce on something when you see it around here because you never know how far the next one will be from your pad. Alright, I’m game. We got out and dropped our car off. You know there’s a funny story behind all of the communication we had to navigate through to get this done but I’ll save that for another time.

We ended up waiting for a few hours and got hooked up once again. We even left there with a shiny clean car when we rolled in with a “wash me” type car. Cool!

Now, it’s hot and we are both getting hungry again plus we want our second shower. The big decision: head back to the house for those showers, miss the sunset and go back out to eat or just head straight to a sunset watching restaurant to get dinner and worry about showers later… yeah, I know, it’s obvious…

Blackened Mahi Mahi with steamed vegetables, a side salad and guacamole. What? You don’t order guacamole as a salad dressing? Yep, dinner made up for it…

The food, the view, my company, was all perfect. Thank you @dandays for our incredible life. Thank you friends for hanging out with me on Food Fight Friday. I’ll be checking your contenders tonight.

When was the last time you gave the food fight Friday host some love? Shoutout to @jlsplatts for keeping this thing going strong and @dandays for getting all of the contenders lined up each week. We appreciate all of the resteems, upvotes, mentions, and follows from you too @weirdheadaches. Those are your triple F hosts, folks. Show em some love :)

God Bless and Pura Vida ✌️