La Divina Comida by Marco Antonio

Name

La Divina Comida by Marco Antonio

Legal name

La Divina Comida

Website

https://ladivinacomidacr.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant / Casual and Fine Dining

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Casual Dining Restaurants (THAFACAB)

Keywords

• Costa Rican cuisine
• Sustainable seafood dining
• Locally sourced restaurant
• Breakfast and lunch service
• Fine dining experience

Headquarters

HQ city

Costa Rica

HQ country

Costa Rica

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining Services: Revenue generated through on-premise dining services, including breakfast and regular menu offerings. Customers make reservations via OpenTable platform or walk-in, paying for food and beverages consumed at the restaurant.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

La Divina Comida by Marco Antonio operates a Costa Rican restaurant serving locally-sourced cuisine through on-premise dining. The restaurant offers a main menu featuring Costa Rican lunch and dinner dishes and a dedicated breakfast menu, with all ingredients sourced from local fishermen and producers under sustainable and responsible fishing practices. Reservations are managed via an OpenTable-powered online booking system for parties of 1 to 10.

Product overview

La Divina Comida is a Costa Rican restaurant led by Chef Marco Antonio, offering a unified dining experience centered on local cuisine. The restaurant provides two distinct menu offerings: a main menu (Menú Principal) featuring Costa Rican lunch and dinner dishes, and a breakfast menu (Menú Desayuno). All menus emphasize locally-sourced ingredients from local fishermen and producers, with a commitment to responsible and sustainable fishing practices. Table reservations are managed through an OpenTable-powered online booking system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Menú Principal (Main Menu) Full lunch and dinner menu featuring Costa Rican dishes made with local, sustainable ingredients sourced from local fishermen and producers, served to restaurant guests.
• Menú Desayuno (Breakfast Menu) Breakfast menu offering morning dishes with Costa Rican ingredients and flavors, served to restaurant guests seeking an authentic local breakfast experience.
• On-Premise Dining Service

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Local Fishermen (Pescadores Locales)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe restaurant has built alliances with local fishermen to source fresh, sustainable seafood. The restaurant is committed to responsible and sustainable fishing practices, ensuring that Costa Rican marine resources are preserved for future generations.
• Local Producers (Productores Locales)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnerships with local Costa Rican producers to supply ingredients for the restaurant. Emphasizes consumption of local, Costa Rican ('Tico') products to support the local agricultural community.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Soda Tapia: Long-established Costa Rican casual dining institution serving traditional local dishes. Comparable as a same-market full-service Costa Rican cuisine operator, though with less of a sustainability-led positioning than La Divina Comida.
• Restaurante Silvestre: Costa Rican chef-driven restaurant in San José focused on modern interpretations of local cuisine with emphasis on domestic producers. Most directly comparable to La Divina Comida by geography, cuisine category, and supplier philosophy.

Broad incumbents

• Maní: Helena Rizzo's Brazilian restaurant in São Paulo blending Brazilian ingredients with contemporary technique. Comparable as a chef-led Latin American restaurant leveraging personal brand and local sourcing for differentiation.
• Maido: Mitsuharu Tsumura's Lima restaurant celebrating Peruvian and Japanese culinary traditions with local sourcing. Comparable as a Latin American chef-driven fine-dining concept that leveraged national cuisine into international recognition.
• Pujol: Enrique Olvera's Mexico City restaurant elevated Mexican cuisine through chef-driven storytelling and local sourcing. Comparable as a Latin American chef-led concept that built a global brand from a national-cuisine foundation.
• Noma: René Redzepi's Copenhagen restaurant pioneering seasonality, foraging, and direct producer relationships. Comparable as a globally recognized chef-led concept whose sustainability and supplier philosophy shaped the playbook La Divina Comida follows at a smaller scale.
• Central Restaurante: Virgilio Martínez's Peru-based restaurant organized around Peruvian ecosystems and indigenous ingredients with direct producer relationships. Comparable as a Latin American chef-driven sustainability concept with proprietary supply chain.
• Boragó: Chef Rodolfo Guzmán's Chile-based restaurant focused on endemic Chilean ingredients and sustainable sourcing. Comparable as a Latin American chef-led concept with a strong producer-relationship story and a stated mission to elevate local ingredients.

Others

• OpenTable: Reservation platform that powers La Divina Comida's booking system. Included as an ecosystem/infrastructure peer whose technology is integrated into the restaurant's core customer acquisition and table-management flow.

Regional players

• Café Malpaís: Costa Rican farm-to-table concept in the Central Valley emphasizing local producers and traditional recipes. Comparable as a domestic Costa Rican peer pursuing a similar sustainability-and-local-sourcing narrative, though located in a different micro-region.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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