Smokeez

Smokeez by the Sea (11am-11pm daily) is a local bar and kitchen located along the waterfront in Iron Shore specializing in roast conch, steam fish, jerk chicken and pork with sides including festival, yam and boiled green banana (US$6-15). Proprietor Lowell Spence bought the joint in 2015 breathing new life into a ramshackle corner of Montego Bay seldom discovered by the visitors shuttled past in tourist buses and packing the planes that roar overhead after departing Sangster International Airport. Those who happen by find down-to-earth Jamaican hospitality, where strangers have been known to buy strangers a drink and time slows down enough to enjoy some old school reggae and honest conversation with newfound friends.