Barbados Restaurants: Which are the best ones?

The island of Barbados in the Caribbean is known, especially in the UK, as the haunt for celebrities and the comfortably off to escape to during the European winter.

The amount of Polo played is one clue to just the type of clientele that visit the island. The number and extent of smart restaurants scattered liberally around the most popular tourist areas on the West and Southwest is another.

Eating out in Barbados, however, is not cheap and so if you want to control spending you should choose one of the “all-inclusive” resorts or self-catering villas rather than a hotel. You will find yourself paying London and New York type prices when you go out, even for some of the fairly straight-forward options. In St. Lawrence Gap there are some more reasonably priced places to eat, but generally things are expensive. The choice and number of restaurants show though, that the tourists that visit the island have the desire and funds to support them. Using a pun, they have the appetite for it.

There are a number of "trophy" restaurants that are almost considered essential to any visit. In fact in the high season (November to January) you will need to have booked up to 2 months to get in to some of the day and time you would want.

Here is my take on some of the best known and most recommended restaurants and if they are worth visiting: