toward the rich, creamy stuff. You can order scoops of house
ice cream, choosing from vanilla bean, chocolate,coffee, rum
raisin and strawberry, or more exotic ginger or green tea. Sorbets
usually include mango, pineapple or mora (blackberry). But Burkhardt's
frosty piece de resstance is a pecan praline ice cream pie with
caramel and chocolate on an old fashioned graham-cracker crust.
As with the kitchen staff, Burkhardt is training locals to serve,
and the table service is certainly attentive and friendly ,
if not yet completely polished. The wine list also is not yet
up to the quality of the food, although the two Spanish and
two French wines are a cut above the lower-echelon Chilean wines
on offer in most out of the way restaurants. But as you sit
in the in the elegant terrace restaurant, bathed in candlelight,
surrounded by a sophisticated soundtrack, you can forgive these
small failings, especially when you consider you are on the
fringes of civilization. Here you are a stones throw away from
the wilds of the Osa Peninsula, enjoying a world-class meal
that would cost a fortune in the concrete fortune in the concrete
jungle of Manhattan. Jade Luna (735-5739) is open for dinner
5 PM - 9 PM Mon - Sat
