Private chef · Private dining · Costa Rica

Costa Rica,at your table.

Costa Rica, interpreted through modern cuisine — cooked and served in your villa, wherever you're staying.

Based in La Fortuna · 10.47° N — 84.64° W

what we do

A restaurant that comes to you.

SYVA is a private chef service working across Costa Rica — Costa Rica, interpreted through modern cuisine. We design a menu around your group, buy from local markets and producers that same morning, and cook a tasting dinner — or a long, unhurried lunch — in the kitchen of your villa, rental or lodge. The chef plates and presents each course at your table; the bar pours beside the kitchen. Based in La Fortuna; we travel wherever you are staying.

Tasting & family-style menus Groups of 2–12 Nationwide English & Spanish

Ingredient first. Always.

Most of what we serve is grown, fished or raised in Costa Rica — bought direct and cooked the same day.

a glimpse of the evening

From the kitchen to your table.

The preparation, the cooking, the final touches. A little of what happens before we serve.

the table

A taste of the table.

A few dishes from our signature menu. Every menu is built around your group and your dates — these are simply where the conversation starts.

And many more — breakfasts, long lunches, fully bespoke menus. Find your menu

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Build a menu around it

the bar

Drinks built at your table.

Fresh-pressed juice, local fruit and flowers, clear ice — with or without alcohol. The bar sets up beside the kitchen and pours through the whole evening.

Strawberry and mint cocktail
strawberry · mint
Hibiscus spritz with flower petals
hibiscus · bubbles
Lime highball with clear ice
lime · clear ice
Dark hibiscus and cherry cocktail
hibiscus · dark rum

Bought direct.

Cacao from Upala. Cheese from Zarcero. Fish from the docks. Vegetables from ferias we can name — and will, at the table.

the team

A kitchen of two.

Stephanie Molina is the head chef. She designs every menu, leads the kitchen and presents each course at your table. Manrique Rojas cooks alongside her and runs the service — the timing, the table and everything that happens around the food.

Small on purpose: one event at a time, nothing outsourced.

Meet the chef
Stephanie Molina and Manrique Rojas, the chefs behind SYVA

costa rica

The whole country is the pantry.

We are based in La Fortuna and we travel. The menus travel with us — what changes is the market. We buy where we cook, so the same dish arrives with whatever that coast, valley or forest gave us that morning.

From the dry forest of Guanacaste to the Caribbean reef, from the cloud forest to the Osa Peninsula. If you can stay there, we can cook there.

Read the country, region by region
La FortunaMonteverdePapagayoTamarindoNosaraSámaraSanta TeresaJacóManuel AntonioUvitaOsa · DrakePuerto ViejoSan José

how it works

Four steps. No friction.

i.

Write to us

Date, location, group size, allergies and appetites.

ii.

We design

A menu proposal within 24 hours, priced per guest.

iii.

We cook

We arrive with everything — our equipment, your kitchen.

iv.

We vanish

Kitchen spotless, printed menu stays with you.

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What brings you to the table?

Tap one — we move on by ourselves.

Who's joining?

How should the evening feel?

Now we're getting somewhere.

We already have a feel for your table. Two more minutes — the palate, the drinks, the details — and we can write your first menu before you even call us.

How many at the table?

Including you. Children count too.

Plated menus for 2–12 · family-style and buffet beyond that

When, and where?

Rough is fine — we can confirm later.

Time of day

How would you like it served?

How adventurous is the table?

From comfort to complete surprise.

What does the table lean toward?

Choose as many as you like.

Which of these make you hungry?

Pick up to six. We build around what you choose.

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Flavours the table loves

And the heat?

What should be in the glass?

As many as you like.

And to finish?

Anything we need to know?

Allergies are always taken seriously.

Tell us about the evening.

Optional — but this is where the best menus start.

Your table, at a glance.

Preferred language

We read every answer ourselves and reply within 24 hours with a first sketch of your menu.

reserve

The table is already yours.

Tell us the occasion — a birthday, a beginning, a good excuse. We come to you, and we bring the rest.

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