Soda Rancho La Palma

Caribbean Coast


Right next to the dock, no-nonsense doña Amelia serves up fresh, tasty fish and meat casados, plus rice and beans cooked in a coconut Creole-style sauce. She also keeps the small plaster statue of the Virgin that is paraded during a boat procession in July.


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