Costambar Bars & Restaurants
As you’d expect with a beachfront community there has to be some bars and restaurants. The beach has seven or eight bars, most of which also do a good range of food. Fried chicken and chips, or locally caught fish are popular here, and sometimes in the morning you can see the restaurant owners sitting at the water’s edge scaling the fish for the lunchtime ahead. Other choices include burgers, goat, pizza, pork snitzel, and whatever specials the restaurant owners have that day.
The beach restaurants tend to be pretty basic. No fine dining, but you do get to sit outside on plastic patio chairs with a great view of the water, palm trees and everything going on around you. During the week, it’s nice and quiet so you can relax. The service is friendly and prices are not too expensive, but noticeably some of the beach bars have increase their prices recently.
Away from the beach, that bars tend to be a little busier in the evening. The central road in Costambar, just through the entrance gate and in the same area as the supermarket is where most of the locals congregate at night or for an after work drink. There are a couple of small restaurants here, and the bars are patronized by residents and visitors who know they can meet up with others and chat about the day’s events.
Aside from this main stretch, there are a handful of other bars and restaurants dotted around Costambar, and they tend to have their unique qualities. If you not sure, ask one of the residents where is a good place to go on the night in question, as being a relatively small community, word of mouth tends to be the most effective way of finding anything out. One or two of the bars will be open until the early hours of the morning on weekend nights, with music, karaoke and dancing, so for vacationers, there should be enough to do.
There are also some good restaurants just outside of Costambar, within a 5 minute drive. To check on the latest happenings, get the local free newspaper, the ‘Adscene’, or the 'CostambarMonthly' available from the supermarket or many of the bars, or just ask one of the locals. Most will be more than happy to give you the lowdown on local eateries.
Some of the bars/restaurants in Costambar last time we checked were Biekes Bar, Spikes Bar (Gym bar), Las Rocas, Buddies (which we think may be shut down now), Solo Mia Pizza Restaurant, Marco Polo Restaurant (also possibly shut down), El Carey on the beach, Sea Witch bar, the Catamaran Beach Bar now renamed Tazu.
