Fans Only
Vol. 1 · Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Aly and Juan at a bar, blown sideways by a huge fan. Drinks and napkins in the air.
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Fig. 1 · Field test · Wind tunnel

Fans OnlyNot that kind. The kind that moves air.

Tamarindo’s bars and restaurants, rated on the one thing nobody else will: how many fans they have. Your food is great. We just want to taste it, not sweat it.

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From Aly, one sweaty night

We don’t do stars.

I have joked about this for years. Then I ate the best meal of my life in a packed, beautiful restaurant with zero moving air while mosquitoes worked on my ankles. Nothing wrong with the place. Everything wrong with the air. So here we are. We count fans. Spinning ones.

    Aly rates · You vote

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    Fans go up, fans go down. Owners: it is cheaper to buy a fan than to argue with us.

    Holding page. Votes and nominations stay on your phone for now. Real voting is coming, right after the .cr domain stops being difficult.

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    Know someone who sweats?

    Every great bar in Tamarindo is one fan away from an A. Send this to the friend who always picks the table under the dead ceiling fan.