The best spot to eat out in Savanna-la- Mar, Guango’s Jerk (11:30am-11pm Sun.-Thurs., 11:30am-midnight Fri.-Sat., US$7-25) has a well-prepared menu featuring Jamaica’s favorite seasoned meat. The jerk chicken is served with perfectly crispy skin, the festival is just the right consistency and sweetness, the rep peas soup delicious, and the beer cold. Fish is also served in brown stew, fried, steamed, or roast. Specials include oxtail, stew peas, curry goat, and mannish water.
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Food
Negril and the West
Calico Jack's
A ramshackle bar and grill on a little island just offshore from Half Moon Beach, Calico Jack’s (11am-sunset daily, US$6-20) serves grilled lobster, jerk chicken, veggie kebabs, and escoveitch fish. The bar serves pirate’s rum punch and beer. Calico Jack’s hosts a Pirates Party on Saturdays (4pm-6pm Sat.).
iNi Vegan Rastarant
iNi Vegan Rastarant (9am-11pm daily, US$5-10) is a dab bar specializing in Rastafarian ital food. iNi offers indoor and outdoor seating, takeout options, waitstaff, and is wheelchair accessible. A few dishes and beverages offered include Rasta Pasta, ital patties, veggie sandwiches, bush tea, coffee, and ganja tea.
Kool Vybes Bar and Jerk Centre
The food is cooked in a jerk pan grill with open-air seating on picnic tables under a zinc roof at Kool Vybes Bar & Jerk Centre (11am-11pm daily, US$5-30), serving jerk chicken and pork as well as pepper shrimp, curry goat, lobster, and fish.
Blue Mahoe Restaurant
Blue Mahoe Restaurant (US$10-30) is at Negril Spa Retreat but welcomes non- guests, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. The menu features a mix of Jamaica-inspired dishes like jerk fish tacos and jerk chicken pesto as well as more traditional Jamaican fare like braised oxtails and beans, curried chicken, and curried goat. International standards include burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas. The large indoor dining area extends outside onto the cliffs.
Motions HQ Bar & Grill
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner at Motions HQ Bar & Grill (7am-11pm daily, US$8-20) includes dishes ranging from ackee and saltfish to seasoned shrimp, fish, and curry goat. A billiards table and bumping reggae provide entertainment.
Seaview Bar & Grill
Seaview Bar & Grill (West End Rd., around the bend from Scotiabank, 4pm-2:30am daily) does the best steam roast conch (US$4) in Jamaica, as well as steam roast fish (US$12), conch soup (US$2), and jerk or fried jerk chicken (US$5), among other local favorites.
Canjam Wake N Bake Cafe
Located just past Rick’s Café, Canjam Wake N Bake Café (West End Rd, across from Citronella, 7:30am-3pm daily high season, US$10-15, ganja edibles mid-Apr.-Sept.) serves fresh fruit juices and breakfast items, as well as famous ganja cookies that pack a punch far beyond their weight.
Sun Beach Restaurant Bar & Jerk Hut
Sun Beach Restaurant Bar and Jerk Hut (9am-9pm daily, US$6- 32) serves seafood and Jamaican-inspired cuisine. The cozy beachfront bar and restaurant treats guests to live reggae every Thursday evening.
Woodstock Negril
Woodstock Negril (7am-11pm Mon.-Sat. US$3-15) serves a variety of grilled and seafood dishes. This is a great place to bring the family, with free live band entertainment on Thursday, different themed cocktails each night, and karaoke Saturday night.
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