Boutique hotels
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Goldeneye Hotel & Resort
- Style
- From Jamaica, with love
- Setting
- Banyans and beaches
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Geejam
- Style
- Music mogul’s cabins
- Setting
- Rainbow-coloured rainforest
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Kanopi House
- Style
- Sky-skimming treehouses
- Setting
- Amid the burly banyans
Jamaica Eating, drinking and dancing
Restaurants
+1 876 715 6533
Anna Banana's
This low-key but popular eatery on Fisherman’s Beach serves up simple but tasty Jamaican food. Seafood features largely (try the lobster, conch or shrimp) and there are nightly specials such as curried goat and stewed peas. The bar’s fresh and fruity cocktails have a potent rum kick.
7 Allan Ave, Fisherman's Beach, Port Antonio
+1 876 809 6276
Dickie’s Best Kept Secret
This restaurant is housed in an unassuming, cliff-hugging building on the road leading west out of Port Antonio. All the food is home-cooked by Dickie, with dishes such as ackee on toast, steamed fish and garlic lobster.
West of Port Antonio, on the main road
+1 876 993 7134
Mille Fleur
Head to Hotel Mocking Bird Hill for this organic restaurant, owned by a local artist and peppered with paintings. The food is pricey but flavour-packed – try the coconut and garlic soup, ackee soufflé, chicken in june plum sauce and home-made bread and jam.
Hotel Mockingbird Hill, Port Antonio, P.O. Box 254
+1 876 957 4041
Norma’s on the Beach
Award-winning chef Norma Shirley heads up Norma’s, at the Sea Splash resort in Negril. The food is a fusion of Caribbean, Asian and South American flavours, with dishes such as grilled red snapper with garlic butter sauce and jerk pasta with chicken, basil and sun-dried tomatoes.
Norman Manley Boulevard, Negril
Sea Side Restaurant
Begin the day with a hearty Jamaican breakfast at this casual restaurant overlooking the East Harbour. Decor and atmosphere are laid-back and local, and the menu is determined by the fishermen’s finds.
Folly Road, Port Antonio
