Dinning

From casual to sophisticated dining, simple to gourmet, Barbados restaurants boast delectable national and international cuisine with African, Indian, and English influences. While Barbados is full of excellent dining options your Caribbean vacation is not complete until you’ve experienced some of the local Bajan cuisine. Local food at its best can be found on Friday nights, at the south coast fishing village of Oistins, where you can enjoy affordable seafood to a soundtrack of great music. Visit Baxter’s Road in Bridgetown. Here, vendors compete to produce the tastiest seafood, so you can feast on flying fish, kingfish and blue marlin, dressed to your liking. If you want something to chew on after a nightclub you can grab fried chicken even at 3am. On Saturdays, you can stroll around Cheapside Market in Bridgetown, where stalls are piled juicytropical fruit and vegetables.

 

Most famous local foods are coucou and flying fish. Coucou is a unique blend of cornmeal and okra mixed with salt, peppers and Bajan hot sauce. Flying fish is the most commonly found fish in the warm waters surrounding Barbados and is usually served fried or steamed.

By day informal clothes are acceptable in most Barbados restaurants, but at night a more formal dress code is a policy among many venues. It is also recommended that dinner reservations be made in advance, especially during the peak season.