Restaurants in St. Lucia
Instead of fancy wine, many locals drink the local beer, Piton, which has won many coveted international prizes, including both a silver medal and a gold medal in 2006 in international beer competitions held in the city of Prague. The other regional alcohol is Bounty Rum, a quality, light-golden rum with a smooth, full-bodied taste. It's known as "the Spirit of St. Lucia."
- FRENCH/ITALIAN/CARIBBEAN
Blue Olive Restaurant & Wine Bar by Chef Xavier
This Rodney Bay Village hot spot is yet another winner from Coal Pot chef/owner Xavier Ribot, who with the Blue Olive has added Italian classics to his French/Creole oeuvre. You dine on the nautically themed open-air terrace or in the air-conditioned dining room. A main menu…$$$Gros Islet - CARIBBEAN/CONTINENTAL
Dasheene
It may have lost a smidgen of cachet since Chef Orlando Satchell left in 2012 to open his own restaurant in Soufrière, but this is still one of the island's top gourmet experiences. Even if you don't sample the excellent dinner fare, Dasheene is a don't-miss destination for…$$$Soufrière - STEAK/ISLAND/INTERNATIONAL
Fire Grill Steakhouse & Lounge Bar
Chef Bobo Bergstrom's vaunted restaurant, the Edge, may be gone, shuttered for good in 2014, but Bergstrom's refined culinary sensibilities live on at this lively steakhouse in Rodney Bay Village. Here Bergstrom plays with "food on fire"—in particular dry-aged Black Angus steaks—in…$$$Gros Islet - CREOLE/FRENCH
Hummingbird's Lifeline Bar & Restaurant
Serving up Creole classics amid palm-fringed views of the Pitons and the turquoise Caribbean, the house restaurant at the Hummingbird Beach Resort has style to match its appealing setting. Batik prints and madras linens add colorful accents to the stone-and-wood interior, with a…$$$Soufrière - CREOLE/ISLAND
Jardin Cacao
The Fond Doux resort has not one but two excellent restaurants serving home-style plantation food built around the bounty of the Fond Doux soil. Nestled in a tropical garden, Jardin Cacao is open for lunch and dinner (reservations recommended), and the menu changes around what…$$Soufrière - FRENCH
La Terrasse
For carefully prepared French cuisine in a tropical garden setting, this intimate and welcoming spot is a small treasure. It lies off the main drag in Rodney Village, right behind Domino's Pizza, of all things. The French bistro food, prepared with finesse by the chef/owner, is…$$Gros Islet - CREOLE/ISLAND
Martha's Tables
Home-style Creole food is the ticket at this casual open-air restaurant close to the Petit Piton near Soufrière (about a 5-minute drive from the Sugar Beach Viceroy resort). The veranda floor is concrete, the roof is tin, and the chairs are plastic, but the colorful garden…$Soufrière - SEAFOOD/GRILL
Naked Fisherman Beach Bar & Grill
Sitting pretty on Smugglers Cove beach, with a shady thatched roof and a raised deck atop wooden stilts in the tawny sand, the Naked Fisherman is one of the island's coolest new beach bars. Located at the Cap Maison resort, the Naked Fisherman is a restaurant, no question, with…$$Cap Estate - CARIBBEAN/INTERNATIONAL
Orlando's
This unpretentious spot in downtown Soufrière is the lair of Chef Orlando Satchell, who gained local fame during his years helming the kitchen of Ladera's Dasheene Restaurant. In 2012 Chef Orlando opened his eponymous restaurant and bar in downtown Soufrière, and the love…$$$Soufrière - EUROPEAN/CARIBBEAN
Rainforest Hideaway
You can only reach it by boat, but that's part of the charm of dining at the Hideaway, tucked into a mangrove stand in the inner harbor of gorgeous Marigot Bay. The romance continues once you're here, as you dine deck-side on flavorful and inventive Euro-Caribbean food and watch…$$$Marigot Bay - WEST INDIES/FRENCH
The Coal Pot
A celebrated French chef oversees the kitchen at this romantic spot, right on the Vigie Marina waterfront. A cannon found in the harbor now guards the outside patio. The stone-and-wood dining room has a retro-colonial look, lit by candlelight flickering in the open breezes. Look…$$$Castries
