Kapi Kapi

Kapi Kapi Review

Low lighting, ocher walls, dark hardwoods, and potted palms provide Manuel Antonio's best ambience for dinner. The name is a greeting in the indigenous Maleku language, but the menu is the cosmopolitan invention of a Californian chef and includes such un-Costa Rican starters as a lemongrass, chicken, and coconut soup, and "seafood cigars"—a mix of fresh tuna, shrimp, and mahi mahi deep-fried in an egg-roll wrapper and served on a cabbage salad. The main courses include such Asian-inspired dishes as prawns with a tamarindo-coconut-rum glaze and macadamia-encrusted mahimahi with a plum chili sauce. Only in dessert does the chef reveal his nationality, with the chocolate s'more cake.