The art of gathering well.
Private dining experiences in La Fortuna, Costa Rica — a chef, a bar and a table, set wherever you're staying.
10.47° N — 84.64° W
Private dining experiences in La Fortuna, Costa Rica — a chef, a bar and a table, set wherever you're staying.
10.47° N — 84.64° W
what we do
Syva is a private dining service. 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.
Most of what we serve is grown, fished or raised in Costa Rica — bought direct and cooked the same day.
the table
The menu changes with the season and with your group. Recent courses from the table:
Yellowfin in tiger's-milk, mango, fresh chile.
Slow-fired shells, finished and poured at the table.
Market fish, crisp yuca, pickled onion, coconut cream.
Bacon-wrapped, forest-berry glaze, corn purée.
House syrups and macerations, made from what grows around us.
salud
Cacao from Upala. Cheese from Zarcero. Fish from the docks. Vegetables from ferias we can name — and will, at the table.
the team
Stephanie Molina and Manrique Rojas — one cooks and presents the menu, the other runs the table, the bar and the timing. Small on purpose: one event at a time, nothing outsourced.
how it works
Date, location, group size, allergies and appetites.
A menu proposal within 24 hours, priced per guest.
We arrive with everything — our equipment, your kitchen.
Kitchen spotless, printed menu stays with you.
your own menu
An anniversary, a proposal, the close of a project, a company retreat. Tell us what the evening is about — the people, the occasion, the feeling you're after — and we'll write the courses around it.
reserve
Tell us the occasion — a birthday, a beginning, a good excuse. We come to you, and we bring the rest.