Roca Verde Bar

Surfers walk straight off Playa Dominical with boards still dripping and order a round before the wax is dry, the horseshoe-shaped bar and the Basil Passion Fruit Margarita have quietly become local legend.

Vegetarian and fresh fish by day, Dominical’s hottest nightspot after dark, Maracatu somehow runs both shifts convincingly.

Thatched roof, picnic tables in the sand, and bonfires overlooking one of the South Pacific’s best surf breaks, El Vaquero is the kind of sunset that makes canceling your flight home feel entirely reasonable.