| Restaurante Colibri
on the Tronadora Road in San Luis has changed management and language,
reopening on January 20 as Hummingbird Restaurant and Lava Rock Bar.
The Hummingbird will add an Italian emphasis to the traditional fare,
featuring a variety of pastas. The new owner is San Jose's Roxana
Diaz, who has five years of food and beverage experience in the capital.
Her older son, Rajinder Dhillon, manages the Khanda Restaurant in
Rohrmoser. Assisting her at Hummingbird during time off from his university
studies is her younger son, Andres. The entrepreneurial Roxana will
also feature coffee and pastries in the afternoons for people who
want to hang out for a bit to admire Hummingbird's wonderful view
of Lake Arenal through its array of picture windows. In an alcove
of the restaurant Roxana will also function as a concierge, offering
services especially to newcomers but also to current |
residents who could
use the help of a thoroughly bilingual person. She claims 20 years
experience as a concierge. She says she's fallen in love with the
Arenal area and so has moved from San Jose.
Speaking of new residents as
well as of Puerto San Luis, Richard and Mary Kelly, who on January
18 broke ground on a property they've purchased near Cinco Esquinas,
held a potluck open house on January 22 at the house they are renting
in San Luis from Christina Glass. With flyers headlined "Una
Fiesta de Los Amigos (Nuevo y Viejo)," Richard and Mary, who
are from Bend, Oregon, invited the local expats "to celebrate
friendships both old and new." The Kellys supplied bocas and
bebidas to get the party rolling and led the way in an afternoon
and evening of conversation and dancing.
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