Casa Planta
Vegan-friendly Manuel Antonio restaurant at IGLOO Beach Lodge, with farm-to-table cooking, local produce and beachy nature-first ease.
Casa Planta sits at IGLOO Beach Lodge in Manuel Antonio, close enough to the national park to make lunch feel like part of the landscape rather than a break from it. It is a sustainable, nature-connected restaurant with vegan and vegetarian-friendly dishes rather than an exclusively meat-free address.
That precision is useful. Plant-forward travellers will find plenty to work with, from vegetarian pizzas and empanadas to mushroom sandwiches, black bean burritos, chickpea bowls and a watermelon poke that sounds like it was designed for humid afternoons. The kitchen’s farm-to-table ethos and local-produce focus are the point, not a side note.
Celebrity chef and wellness entrepreneur Matthew Kenney is part of the restaurant’s story. His influence suits the brief: Costa Rican produce, lighter technique and a polished version of pura vida that does not confuse wellness with denial.
The setting does plenty of work. After a morning in Manuel Antonio’s forest and beaches, Casa Planta gives you a way to keep the day gentle: bright food, casual ease and enough plant-based choice to make ordering feel expansive. That is sustainability at its most persuasive: delicious first, virtuous second.
