Episode #125: Sebastian Gallucci

New Worlder · Sep 8, 2026 · 1h 11m · transcript

Sebastian Gallucci comes from an Argentine Italian family, but grew up in Toronto, Canada. He now runs two restaurants in somewhat isolated part of Costa Rica’s South Pacific coast in the town of Uvita, called Sebas and Alma.

Uvita, and neighboring towns like Dominical, are less accesible than the beach towns of Nicoya and Guanacaste much further north, so they remain relatively unknown to the outside world. Marino Ballena National Park, which extends out into the Pacific in the shape of a whale’s tail, dominates the shoreline in front of Uvita, and beachfront development is limited…