If you're staying in Jacó and want to stock the villa — or you're curious where your chef shops before cooking at your table — the answer is simple: Más x Menos. It's the biggest, best-stocked grocery store in downtown Jacó Beach, and it's where we buy the fresh ingredients that go into every meal at www.jacobeachchef.com. Here's a tour of why we love it.
A real full-size supermarket — just like the States
Más x Menos (the name means "more for less") is a Costa Rican supermarket chain, and it's owned by Walmart — which means huge variety on just about everything, and a lot of familiar store brands like Great Value and Marketside right alongside local favorites. If you're visiting from the U.S., it'll feel just like home: fresh rotisserie chicken in the hot case, everything you need for a sushi night, and a whole wall of great hot salsas. For a beach town, the downtown Jacó store is impressively complete — a full produce section, a butcher and deli, dairy, a big dry-goods aisle, and a surprisingly deep imported-foods selection. It's air-conditioned, easy to reach, and has everything you need for a week at the villa.
Fresh produce & proteins
Great cooking starts with great ingredients, and this is where a bio chef jaco beach stocks up. The produce bins are piled with ripe avocados, tomatoes, plantains and tropical fruit, and the meat counter and deli keep things easy — including a hot case of fresh rotisserie chicken (pollo rostizado) if you want dinner handled the moment you walk in.
A pantry that lets us cook anything
What really sets Más x Menos apart for a chef is the imported aisle. We can build almost any cuisine from these shelves — toasted sesame oil, sriracha mayo and wasabi sauce for Asian dishes, sushi rice and jasmine rice for sushi night, hot sauces for Costa Rican and Mexican flavors, and shredded cheeses for everything from tacos to pasta. It means that wherever your tastes go, your bio chef jaco beach can follow.
Local flavor, too
It's not all imports. The hot-sauce aisle is a love letter to Costa Rican and Latin flavor — Tío Pelón chileros, Santa Cruz chipotle and Caribbean sauces, and classics like Frank's RedHot — and the shelves are full of fresh cheeses, whole-wheat wraps and everyday staples at honest prices. For a bio chef jaco beach, it's the perfect mix of local character and international range.
Or skip the shopping entirely
Here's the best part: you don't have to shop at all. When you book www.jacobeachchef.com, the grocery run is on us. We hand-pick everything fresh at Más x Menos, cook it at your villa, and clean up afterward — so you get restaurant-quality meals without ever pushing a cart. Want to see what we can make? Check out our menu and services.
Plan your villa meals
Shopping for yourself or leaving it to us, Más x Menos is the place in downtown Jacó to eat well all week. Tell us your dates and group size and we'll handle the rest.