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.