El Pescador Beach Club

Every Tamarindo best-of list includes Nibbana for a reason, right on the sand with a drink menu solid enough to make dinner turn into an entire evening.

Wild Nights on Wednesdays and Saturdays spill the dance floor right onto the beach, and Pacifico has been Tamarindo’s anchor bar long enough that half the town treats it as a landmark.

Twenty-five thousand Instagram followers were not wrong, Ocho runs breakfast through dinner with sunset cocktails in between and earns the hype every single time.

AFAR Magazine says it is never going out of style, and El Be backs that up with a DJ terrace for the dancers and a sandbar for everyone else, sunset to sunrise energy either way.

The tide comes in close enough to feel the spray here, and the howler monkeys occasionally crash the party looking for snacks. Walter’s makes Tamarindo feel less like a tourist town and more like home.