Shoal Restaurant and Lounge

Frommer's Review

Many of our good friends in Nassau swear that this is one of the best joints for authentic local food. We rank it near the top for a dining venue that's utterly without glamour but which serves sensible down-home food at a locale far removed from the tourist path. After all, where else can you get a good bowl of okra soup these days? This may or may not be your fantasy, but to a Bahamian, it's like pot liquor and turnip greens with corn bread to a Southerner. Many diners follow an inaugural bowl of soup (either split pea or the above-mentioned okra soup) with more conch, either "cracked" or perhaps curried. But you can also order some unusual dishes, such as Bahamian-style curried mutton using native spices and herbs, stewed oxtail, or braised short ribs of beef. Peas 'n' rice almost automatically accompanies virtually everything served here.

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