Nibbana Beach Bar

Beachside service that runs from lunch straight into sunset cocktails without a single hiccup, El Pescador is built for people who have no intention of leaving before dark.

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.

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.

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.