RLT Cuisine · Playa Potrero, Guanacaste

Meet Chef Gilberto.

Creative Chef & Founder of RLT Cuisine, Playa Potrero, Guanacaste.

Chef gilberto briceño, founder and executive chef of rlt cuisine, playa potrero, guanacaste, costa rica
The founder

A Costa Rican who went looking, and came back.

Gilberto left Costa Rica with a one way ticket and a curiosity for how people eat in other parts of the world.

For the next few years, he cooked, traveled and learned his way through kitchens across five continents. Then he came home to Guanacaste and realized that much of what he had gone looking for was already here.

The fishermen pulling in that morning’s catch. The farmers growing a few rows of something because it happened to thrive that week. The ingredients that never make it to a supermarket shelf.

That became the foundation of RLT.

Today, Gilberto leads a kitchen that cooks close to the source. Menus change with what arrives, who harvested it and what the season is giving us that day.

The idea is simple: know where the food comes from, know the people behind it, and cook it in a way that makes the place impossible to ignore.

“Every plate should tell you something about where you are.”

Gilberto Briceño · Creative Chef & Founder, RLT Cuisine

In his own words

The road less traveled, explained.

Your turn

Cook with Gilberto.

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