There are several places where you can buy food in San Juan del Sur. There is a major supermarket in San Juan Del Sur called The Tali. They have canned goods and packaged goods, different kinds of cheese, and vegetables, which are very common in Nicaragua. You can also go to the street market which is much like a farmer’s market (open-air market). There you can buy fruits and vegetables, meat, chicken, bread and of course, fresh fish.
The fish that the fishermen catch wind up fairly quickly in the supermarkets and the open air market so they are extremely fresh. Which fish are being sold depends on what the fresh catch of the day was. They catch different kinds of fish but the quantity all depends on how the fishing went that day. There is not a lot of commercial fishing in San Juan Del Sur. Most of the fishing is long line fishing so that means that sometimes there may be a scarcity of fish depending on the season and different external factors that would cause the scarcity. The types of fish that are common in San Juan Del Sur are Mahi Mahi, Snapper, Group, Mackerel, Yellowfin Tuna, and Bluefin Tuna.
You can also buy fresh meat at the central park. Nicaragua is known for exporting beef so there are a lot of local butcher shops here that sell fresh meat. These are grass-fed cows so the tenderness of their meat would depend on the cut of meat you buy.
There is not as much food variety in San Juan del Sur as there is in the US, but common grocery items like milk, bread, meat, and cereals are very accessible here in San Juan Del Sur.
If you are going to buy imported goods from the US, they are definitely more expensive compared to buying them in the US but the mark up is not that high. Here in my house, we always stock up on Oreos, Cheetos, and Doritos and they are not too expensive. You would pay only about 10% more than its price in the States.
The supermarkets here are pretty organized and almost everything that you need or want coming straight from the US are available in these places. If you have a list of things that you buy in the US, you’ll be able to get about 70% of it in the supermarkets here in San Juan Del Sur.
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