Flowas Café

The Flowas café is housed in a charming building right on the beach with two circular thatched roofs.  The cuisine is based on the simple and creative combination of fresh prime products: fish, seafood, white meat, fresh fruit and vegetables, olive oil, garlic, seasoning herbs. Homemade jam, yogurt and bakeries. They offer pastas, salads, nachos, quesadillas, and burgers with delicious smoothies and fresh fruit juices to drink.

They feature traditional Garifuna cuisine (tapou or tapado, hudutu or machuca, rice and beans, green banana cakes), as well as and Mediterranean cuisine (pasta al pesto, marinated chicken fillet, fish fillet, fresh fish and shrimps…). The menu includes several vegetarian options.

Overview 

Getting here:  Once you are on the pier in Lívingston, get a taxi (for Q. 10) to take you to “Callejón de Flowas”, in Barrio Campo Amor. You walk down the alley towards the beach some 100 meters, and then another 100 meters down the beach until you reach us. It is easy and well indicated. Once you are here, it is worth the trouble!!

Price range:  25-80Q, cash only

Hours of operation:  8am - 9 pm

Is there a bar:  Yes

Contact

Owner: Sara Martínez Juan

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Phone: 502-7947-0376  or  5860-1040

 Sustainability

Local dishes/recipes: Traditional Garifuna cuisine (tapou or tapado, hudutu or machuca, rice and beans, green banana cakes).

Local Ingredients/Products used: Almost all of the products cooked in the restaurant are bought and grown locally.  The fish come from local, traditional fisherman and the eggs are farm-raised at the hotel.

• Well water and rain water are used for cleaning the hotel.  For cooking purified water is used, but the hotel does NOT use plastic water bottles.  The drinking water comes from large barrels which are recycled and you can use them to refill your glass or bottle.
  
• To cook, they combine the use of a conventional gas stove with the use of a solar-powered stove.

• The beach is cleaned daily for trash.  Organic waste from the ocean is used to refill and reinforce the land (which protects the beach from erosion).  Some of the found objects have become incorporated into the interior decorations of the hotel, and in some cases plastic bottles and other waste has been used for the construction of furniture which is also incorporated into the décor of the hotel.

• All of the organic waste matter from the kitchen is used to make compost or to feed the chickens which provide the hotel with fresh eggs.