Kuyaba on the Beach

Frommer's Review

The setting is about as rustic, laid-back, and funky as you'll find -- the perfect venue for slugging back two or three of the house special cocktails, which include "screaming bananas" and a party-colored, rum-based concoction known as a "kuyaba rainbow." Tables are set on a wooden deck, built on poles buried deep in the sands of the beach. The menu has been considerably improved -- better market-fresh ingredients and more flavor. Starters that are specialties include jerk sausage served with shrimp wrapped in bacon, or a bowl of "real Jamaica" -- a choice of red peas (actually beans), cream of pumpkin, or pepper pot. Pasta dishes are winning, especially conch-laced spaghetti with a garlic, wine, and tomato sauce, or angel-hair pasta studded with cream. Caribbean lobster is a standard feature. Some of our favorite dishes include crab and pumpkin cakes with a papaya mustard, or coconut curried conch with a mango-and-papaya chutney. For dessert, there's nothing finer than the Jamaican rum cake or the mango cheese cake. The name is Arawak for "feasting, drinking, and dancing," something that happens whenever a musician drops by to play some live reggae or soca.

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