La Cocina Bonita

La Cocina Bonita is a garden café and grill focusing on serving sustainable, high-quality food on local ingredients. The food is a mix of Scandinavian and Mayan cooking, focusing on bringing the very best out of each of the gifts we get from Mother Nature.

Here you can:

  • Enjoy a cup of super good coffee from the volcano in our backyard, served with unpasteurized milk from a 5-cow-farm in a nearby village.

  • Eat super tasty and naturally healthy food made on the very best ingredients from around Guatemala. Like chicks from a regenerative farm cooked on a woodfired rotisserie grill, caldo (soup) with fresh herbs or a banana split on criollo bananas and permaculture chocolate.

  • Cool down with fresh-made ice cream on local, organic ingredients or beverages made on local fruits and homegrown healing herbs.

  • Bring your kids and your swimsuit! We are placed just a few minutes from the beach and with play areas for the little ones.

  • Hang out with hummingbirds, cicadas, butterflies, bees and fireflies – depending on the season – in our little garden.

  • Get cosy and experience true ‘hygge’ from morning till night most days of the week.

About our food

We believe that food is medicina so our principles are based on avoiding refined foods, seed oils, chemicals etc. Instead, we focus on vitality, joy, taste and beauty.

Most ingredients are from regenerative farms very close by or non-certified organic (that's how it works here in Guatemala). Exotic fruit like coconuts are from the coast 2 hours away. We use very little sugar and hardly any flour – our food is mainly naturally gluten free. We cook on fire. We support local suppliers who avoid Big Agro and we are the workplace of many locals.  



Scandinavian ‘hygge’ by the volcano

As Scandinavians ‘hygge’ is important for us. That means that you can let down the shoulders and chill in a friendly and cozy atmosphere. We combine our Scandinavian roots and our 25+ years of experience with Scandinavian cooking with the best of what San Pedro and surroundings can offer. And it can offer a lot! 



Read more about our background here.

 

Opening hours

We are open Thursday through Monday from 11.30-20.00.

Menu

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Booking

You are welcome to just show up, but if you want to make sure we have a table ready for you, we advise you send us a message in advance.

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