Built over
the water

This building has fed Woodland from the edge of the lake at Velocity Island Park since 2014, for most of those years under the name Edgewater Eatery. In 2026 it became Costa Fuego: same water, same deck, and a kitchen rebuilt around three ideas. Fire. Water. Tequila.

The fire is a wood-burning pizza oven fed with Italian Tipo 00 dough and a grill that does not sleep. The water is everywhere you look: the dining room and deck sit on pilings directly over the lake, close enough to feel the wake when a boarder carves past. The tequila is a bar that takes agave as seriously as the sushi bar takes its fish.

Herbs and tomatoes come from the on-site garden. The Costa Garden Caprese is built on tomatoes picked steps from the kitchen, and the herbs in the salsa and on the sashimi were growing that morning.

It is a small thing that changes everything about how the food tastes: flavor with purpose.