Óptica is our eight-course tasting menu

A different way to sit down to a meal. There’s no menu to read and no decisions to make. Just a sequence of dishes that arrives little by little, and that tries to share how we understand Costa Rican cooking right now.

Eight courses built around the product, the season, the fire and our own curiosity. It usually runs between two and two and a half hours, because some stories need a little more time to be told.

₡66,000 per person (Costa Rican colones).

Fire is part of the conversation

Before the first dish arrives, what usually reaches you first is the smell of wood smoke.

At Óptica, fire, smoke, embers and time show up again and again across the meal.

Some ingredients spend days close to the fire before they make it to the table. You can taste that time in the aromas, in the textures and in the depth of the flavors.

Ingredients you already know, seen from a different angle

Almost everything that comes into this kitchen comes from Costa Rica.

We work with line-caught fish, small producers, ingredients in season, vegetables, fruit, cacao, grains, root vegetables and many of the products that have been part of our food culture for generations.

Some ingredients feel familiar. Others turn up in a direction you didn’t expect.

We like to look at them closely, figure out what they can do, and keep exploring what they become when you give them time, technique and respect.

Sometimes it’s a surprise. Sometimes it brings back a memory. Often it’s both at once.

A night that builds little by little

Óptica starts light.

One dish opens the conversation, another carries it on, and slowly the table gains depth. Corn, beans and squash from the milpa, dishes drawn from what the sea gives us, vegetables worked over the coals, memories turned into something new, flavors you didn’t see coming.

The dishes change all the time, because the seasons change, the producers change, and so does our own curiosity.

What stays the same is the intention: to share a night that grows as it goes and finds its own rhythm somewhere between the kitchen, the table and the conversation.

So all you have to do is sit down

Óptica is ₡66,000 per person.

If you’d like something alongside it, we offer a few pairing options. We especially recommend the Silvestre Pairing, built around wines, ferments and macerations we make in house, at ₡32,000 per person.

There’s also a non-alcoholic option at ₡16,000 per person, where we work with ferments, kombuchas and drinks made by our own team.

For anyone who’d rather let us take the wheel, we also offer the Chef’s Selection at ₡38,000 per person.

The ending is one of our best-kept secrets

The whole night is built dish by dish.

Some people remember an ingredient. Others a story, a conversation, or one particular flavor. What we like most is that everyone leaves with something different.

We recommend booking ahead to hold your spot.

Reserve at restaurantesilvestre.com/reservaciones or write to us on WhatsApp at +506 8308 3388.