Negril Restaurants
The Hungry Lion Restaurant
Bamboo Restaurant
Root's Bamboo
Norman Manley Blvd.
Jamaican and international dishes are served up at this casual eatery
or just stop by to visit the Root's Bamboo Beach Bar for fun along Negril's
famous seven mile beach.
The Hungry Lion
West End Road
This relaxed eatery serves up excellent vegetarian cuisine. Dishes such
as a meatless shepherd's pie, pastas, and more are flavorful.
LaVendome Restaurant
Charela Inn
Norman Manley Blvd.
Dine inside or outdoor just steps off the sand at this fun restaurant
that features Jamaican dishes with a French twist.
Margaritaville
Norman Manley Blvd.
Like its sister restaurants in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, this restaurant
is a favorite with tourists looking for rowdy fun. Super casual, the restaurant
is better known for its party atmosphere than its food. Look for a Frisbee
golf course, volleyball, basketball, a beach club. Oh, yeah, there's food,
too: burgers, sandwiches, fish, chicken, and lobster, not to mention over
50 types of margaritas.
Norma's on the Beach
Sea Splash Resort
Norman Manley Blvd.
Although located at a fairly simple, small resort, this eatery features
the inspiration of Jamaica's best known chef: Norma Shirley, often called
the Julia Child of the Caribbean.
Rick's
Cafe
West End Rd.
Known as Negril's top sunset bar, Rick's is also a popular restaurant
with Negril vacationers. Filet mignon, kingfish, broiled lobster, jerk
chicken, coco bread pizza, and blackened chicken breast are served in
the open-air dining room. It's not the best restaurant in Negril and definitely
not the place to go for a quiet, romantic dinner (the daredevils jumping
off the cliffs take care of that) but it is always a fun hangout and a
terrific spot to watch the sunset.
The Rockhouse Restaurant and Bar
Rockhouse
West End Rd.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served at this open-air eatery, just steps
from busy West End Road. Once through the gates at Rockhouse and seated
beneath the restaurant's thatched roof, you'll feel that you are tucked
away from the world. The restaurant and bar are perched high on Negril's
bluffs and look directly out to sea and an unbeatable sunset. Jamaican
cuisine with European influences are the specialties here.
Seaside Bar and Grill
Coco La Palm Seaside Resort
Norman Manley Blvd.
We came to Coco La Palm after almost a week of eating our way around Jamaica.
Would it be fair to judge a restaurant after so many excellent meals?
Were we up to another Jamaican feast? There was only one way to know.
Coco La Palm made the task easy. We could dine at this excellent open-air
restaurant night after night and never have enough. A diverse menu keeps
things interesting, Jamaican specialties transformed into culinary masterpieces.
We started with Smoked Marlin and Ackee Cream cheese Tart (see recipe
below), a tasty blend of flavors with flavorful cream cheese and ackee
to calm the taste of the smoked marlin (or marlin firing up the flavor
of the cream cheese and ackee, depending how you look at it!) The night
was off to a good start.
From there we moved on to some serious eating. The choices were all appealing:
Jerk Festival Fettucine, Rum and Lime Broiled Chicken Breast, Broiled
Mahi-Mahi Fillet with papaya salsa, Lobster and Shrimp Curry, the list
went on and on. We made our choices: John had Coconut Crusted Snapper
Fillet. Paris had Rasta Pasta with Shrimp, colorful rotini with sautéed
shrimp and ackee in a Jamaican spiced sauce. Good selections, both.
But the task was not yet completed. Jamaican Coconut Rum Cheesecake remained.
Nestled in a moist graham cracker crust, we later learned a slice of the
devilish dessert had nearly 40 grams of fat. We'd work it off with a long
swim tomorrow. No problem.
Sweet Spice
1 White Hall Rd.
We enjoyed a wonderful lunch at this real Jamaican eatery. You'll be cooled
by a small fan and the breeze that comes through the open doorway. Artwork
on the blue tinted walls consists of framed towels with Jamaican axioms.
But this restaurant is the real thing: a Jamaican diner with food to match.
Conch steak, curried goat, barbecued chicken, curried shrimp, and curried
chicken are top offerings, served with rice. Cool off with a pawpaw daiquiri
or a piña colada.
For a real taste of Jamaica home cooking, this restaurant is one of the
best spots to visit in Negril.
Tan-ya's
Sea Splash Resort
Norman Manley Blvd.
Save plenty of time for a meal at Tan-ya's...you'll need it. We enjoyed
breakfast here but were just about ready to start thinking about lunch
when our plates came out. This is a small operation even a smaller kitchen
so don't expect fast food turnaround times. As Jamaicans often say, "soon
come" and yes, it will soon come. Be patient. Enjoy the beautiful
beach, take a walk if you like, and when it comes your meal will be worth
the wait. We ordered ackee and bacon, a delightful twist on a traditional
island favorite, it was one of the best breakfasts we've ever eaten. You
can also have lunch or dinner in this super casual eatery where each table
is tucked beneath its own palm thatched roof. Specialties include deviled
crab backs and smoked marlin.
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