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Sweet Spice (opens 8:30 a.m.\10:30 p.m daily, US$5\25) is the best place along the main road heading toward Sav for typical Jamaican fare at local prices. Sweet Spice is the most popular restaurant with locals for good reason, offering refreshing real-world value in a town where prices are more regularly on par with U.S. cities.
Peppa Pot (opens 9 a.m.\8 p.m Mon.\Sat., US$4\10) is located a bit farther down Whitehall Road heading east out of Negril. It's a popular local joint for jerk, as well as steamed fish with the requisite sides of breadfruit and festival.
Ackee Tree Restaurant (8 a.m.-10 p.m daily, US$5-8) serves the best Ital stew and local dishes and is frequented by popular artists in the know. Noel "Wall" Masters runs the joint.
Tasty Delight (Fire Station Rd., no phone) is the favorite restaurant of local taxi drivers, with typical Jamaican dishes at local rates.
Beach Road SeaFood Restaurant (across from Roots Bamboo, 8 a.m.\9 p.m Mon.\Sat., free delivery) serves fish, lobster, soursop fish, conch, and shrimp. Devon "Tiger" Reid is the shop owner. Late Night Hot Spot Bar is located next door.
Rankcle Stankcle fish shop, run by Owen Keith Oliver "Taurus" Morgan operates out of a riverside corner of the Negril Fishing Cooperative.
The Black Star Line is an Ital restaurant located at Bongo's Farm in Sheffield, serving natural foods out of calabash bowls, natural juices, and jelly coconut water. The eatery is open by reservation only.
Kuyaba (7 a.m.\11 p.m daily, US$12\27) has consistently decent, but pricey, international and Jamaican fusion cuisine, including pork kebab, brown stew conch, peppered steak, and seafood linguine lobster for main courses.
Whistling Bird Private Club for Fine Dining (7 a.m.\7 p.m, by reservation only) specializes in gourmet five-course meals (US$35) that offer a choice of dishes that include "Grandma's Favourite" pepperpot soup, pineapple chicken, escovitch fish, stuffed grouper, and bourbon rock lobster.
The Lobster House (at Sunrise Club, beside Coral Seas Garden, noon\11 p.m daily) serves Italian and Jamaican food: Dishes range from pasta with tomato sauce (US$8) to gnocchi (US$12), pizza baked in a wood-fired brick oven (US$10\16), and grilled lobster (US$26). Wines are about US$24\26, and great coffee is served.
