A consistent and reputable upscale dining establishment in San Pancho for years, La Ola Rica is not only a popular restaurant in arguably one of the best locations on main street in San Pancho, but it also includes an additional palapa roof restaurant above with bird’s eye view of the bustle on Main Street (Avenida Tercer Mundo) and a charming Mexican modern one-bedroom apartment with a delightful balcony looking over Calle Mexico. An additional bedroom with AC and shared bathroom fits opposite the restaurant on the second level and just up the stairs to the Palapa roof third level, you’ll find another bedroom with a bathroom, AC, and airy windows with a view of downtown rooftop terraces and main street.
With a visually pleasing mix of modern and traditional Mexican décor, the main restaurant and its newly remodeled dining patio serves as a place to see and be seen with live music, a custom pizza oven and some of the finest cuisine and artisanal cocktails in the Riviera Nayarit. Known for their service and consistent quality, La Ola Rica is always busy, one of the most spacious restaurants in San Pancho and right in the middle of the action. On a corner lot of the main street, the principal restaurant features a large commercial kitchen, authentic elegant cantina bar, beautiful hardwood dining tables inside and out, on-street seating, outdoor counter seating optimal for people watching, a women’s and men’s bathroom and a restaurant office. The upstairs restaurant includes a smaller but still fully equipped commercial kitchen, a stylish bar, palapa roof, woven Mexican pendant basket lights, counter seating for views of main street and a women’s and men’s bathroom.
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| Price: | $$1,900,000 USD |
| Address: | Av Tercer Mundo |
| City: | San Pancho |
| County: | Bahia de Banderas |
| State: | Nayarit |
| Square Feet: | 2507.99 sqft |
| Bedrooms: | 3 |
| Bathrooms: | 6 |
| Property Type: | Restaurant(s) + Apartment |
| Construction: | 5147.30 sqft total |
A delightful coastal community, a short drive from the sky-scraping, timeshare hotels that line the Puerto Vallarta coastline, lies San Francisco (known locally as San Pancho) in the Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. A short ten-minute drive from lively Sayulita and a 45-minute drive from the Puerto Vallarta airport, san Pancho is the tranquil escape that we’ve all been looking for.
When you 
San Pancho has an old world charm and a community of artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and those who have chose to spend their winters here, soaking up the sun and the culture who make up this special place. They ride their bikes or walk everywhere they go. They stroll the beach at sunrise and watch baby turtles protected by the local turtle sanctuary make their way to their native ocean. They chat with friends at the local coffee shops over local coffee farmer’s lattes, homemade banana bread and savory empanadas.
On any given night, you can expect to hear live music coming from travelers from Argentina, Mexico city or Guadalajara softly strumming guitars and ringing acoustic to the enchanted visitors dining al fresco. The town hums with artists young and old, children running freely, young surfers running barefoot to catch the end of the day, and those with wanderlust strolling the promedade. One can hear multiple languages being spoken on the streets and the businesses are run by people from all over the world. This is not just your average Mexican village, this is melting pot of cultures who all seem to have one thing in common… a desire to savor life and to slow it down a bit.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, and still somewhat today, the coast of San Pancho and Sayulita and nearby mountainous region known as the 
Entreamigos offers more than 600 classes and workshops in the facility, most of them free of charge. The non-profit organization has a variety of programs that are intended to bridge cultural and economic differences with the intention of increasing educational opportunities, environmental stewardship and collective community responsibility. They offer scholarships to the local kids and some of the successful entrepreneurs in San Pancho are results of that very scholarship program.
Another spectacular feature in San Pancho is the formation of Circo de Niños (Kid’s circus) which was founded in 2011 by Cirque de Soleil’s founding directors, Gilles Ste. Croix and Monique Voyer. Initially conceived as a fundraising idea for Entreamigos, Gilles Ste. Croix offered to oversee a presentation involving about 40 children incorporating elements of his famous Montreal troupe. By autumn 2014, Cirque de Soleil had donated equipment and the Circo de los Niños began rehearsing in the Entreamigos space. An outdoor performance of ¡Órale! was given at the Plaza de San Francisco and the Mayan Palace in the Punta de Mita resort. In March 2015, Circo de los Niños was granted the use of one of the government warehouses on the same property as Entreamigos and performed a four night run of their first Cirque du Soleil like performance before audiences of about 250. The circus performance continues today with tickets selling out immediately and is an absolute marvel to witness. If one has ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, this children’s circus has the music, the lights, the story, the acrobatics, and the magic of a typical show in Vegas, but with children of the San Pancho community who train all year to perform for their families and tourists alike.
The entire state of Nayarit is located south of the 
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