February 21st, 2012
Yes, we moved to this new and exciting location!!
We are offering our legendary dishes and we improved the Seafood selection.
and now the Lasagne, tagliatelle, Pappardelle and Maltagliati are made on the fly and cooked at the moment, including the lasagne, in their new single portion presentation.
And, in this location, we are offering room accommodation in two double bed rooms ( fit two ) and two double bed + 2stories bed rooms ( fit four ).
We have kayaks for our guests, and we can arrange birdwatching, naturalistic and fishing tours.
Special packages that include the room and meals are available, please inquire about them for prices and availability of rooms.
Map of Puerto Jimenez beachfront with the new location of Il Giardino, the only Italian restaurant in Town since 1999
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March 5th, 2011
When we were child, not centuries ago, one of the biggest pleasures we had, for Christmas time, was a gentle gift of one of our neighbours, donna Rosa De Marco, under the form of a jar of Crustoli, a very interesting and tasty kind of small pies, prepared following the ancient recipe that, with all the possibilities, was coming from the ancient Greece culture, that dominated Calabria for centuries before the rising of Roman Empire Read More...
Tags: calabrian Pastry, Crustoli, Honey, South Italy Pastry, Traditional Pastry
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December 28th, 2010
As every year for the last 11, the great Actor, Author and Singer Ruben Pagura, come to stay some days with us, enjoying the beginning of the summer and share some nice moment entertaining us, at Il Giardino, with his music and presence.
[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="Ruben-Pagura,-the-great-Actor-and-Singer,-at-Il-Giardino-Italian-Restaurant-in-Puerto-Jimenez,-Osa-Peninsula Read More...
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October 20th, 2010
As every good Italian, I can't eat a good plate of any kind of food without the accompaniment of Bread.
It is simply written in our DNA, from the old times wen the legion of Rome were marching toward the summer battle fields of northern Europe, the men were eating, most of the time, pure wheat from a bag, for don' have to stop for to cook it and slow down the march, because timing was very important for them, they had to reach the battle field for the late spring, kill'em all before the end of summer and return to the warmer soil of Italy before the arrival of winter and its cold and snow Read More...
Tags: Bread, Bread Recipe, Homemade Bread, il giardino Italian restaurant, Il Giardino Puerto Jimenez, Il Giardino's Bread, Italian Bread, Oven cooking, Wheat, Yeast
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October 19th, 2010
After several years and several kilos of different potatoes thrown in the garbage, I could finally found the right potato, flour, cooking system and balance of ingredient for to make Gnocchi.
Everybody that tried to make Gnocchi, had to face some disaster before to reach the perfect balance of ingredients, and way to prepare them for to avoid to produce useless sticky pieces of flour that once in the boiling water, almost disappear or too compact shells that once boiled can be easily used as tank destroyer bullets, much better than the depleted plutonium ones Read More...
Tags: Gnocchi, Gnocchi Rustici, il giardino Italian restaurant, Il Giardino Puerto Jimenez, LAtin American Sauce, New Sauce, Papaya Sauce, Tropical Fruit Sauce, whole weat flour
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September 17th, 2010
Borucas Masks, are, probably, the most distinctive cultural element that help to spread the name and fame of this Indian Tribe indigenous of the South Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.
The Boruca Indian Reservation is located just out of the boundaries of the Osa Peninsula, on the high Hills few kilometres North-West from Palmar Norte Read More...
Tags: Artesany, Boruca, Boruca Artesany, Borucas Art, Borucas Ethnic Food, Borucas Ethnic Masks, Borucas Masks, Ethnic Masks, Indian Art, Indian Masks
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September 3rd, 2010
In Italy, we have, historically, three main categories that define the kind of food you can find in a certain " eating place" and, normally, the level of quality and care put in the food and its preparation.
In the old time , when everything was transported by Horse powered vehicles, the men that were " driving" that carriages, were called Trattori : the person that haul stuff Read More...
Tags: definition of Pizzeria, Definition of trattoria, History of the Italian Food, Italian Food, Italian Recipes, Puerto Jimenez Italian Restaurant, Restaurant, Trattoria
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August 25th, 2010
One of the most common, and economic fruits, even if the bananas are vegetables nobody can avoid to call them " fruits", available in the whole Osa Peninsula, as everywhere in Costa Rica, are, obviously, Bananas.
This doesn't means that you can find this great fruit in every soda, or restaurant, and you can't expect that this abundant fruit had been used in all the way that it deserve Read More...
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August 13th, 2010
We, at Il Giardino, are offering several of the most well known Italian Recipes of Pasta, Fish and Meat, but when you don't see us, we are working in the back studying, preparing and prove samples of new sauces, stuff for our ravioli or some new, intriguing Pizza.
We would have more time for this creative part of the work, but in a small Family Business, as our one is, the routine activities, often, reduce the time available for experimenting Read More...
Tags: Crab, Crab Ravioli, il giardino Italian restaurant, Il Giardino Puerto Jimenez, Italian Resturant, New Recipes, Pasta, Ravioli
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August 6th, 2010
My friend Erick, from Puntarenas, brought me yesterday a beautiful piece of Marlin.
It was a so good piece of fresh fish meat that I decide to try with it a recipe that I was working around in the last weeks.
I notice that in our Menu, a little ambitious one, following my Wife Cecilia, there was a lack of some fish recipe with some really spicy taste, so I start doing some alchemy with several peppers, herbs, garlic and a variety of condensers for to create a white spicy sauce specific for fish recipes Read More...
Tags: Fresh Fish, Fresh Marlin, Il Giardino Puerto Jimenez, Marlin, New Fish Recipe, New Recipe, New Seafood Recipe
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