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Kingston: Where To Eat
From: Jamaica
Adventure Guide
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The complete story
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 Jamaica
Adventure Guide - This travel guide walks with the adventurous
traveler to the heart of Jamaica, to the miles of sand beaches,
to the rugged Blue Mountains, to the country villages that provide
a peek at the real Jamaica
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Asian Restaurants
ORCHID ROOM
Devon House, 26 Hope Road, New Kingston
876-968-2098
($$$)
This dinner-only restaurant serves
authentic Thai cuisine. Pad Thai, pepper steak, curried dishes,
stir-fried chicken and satay fill the menu.
Continental Cuisine
BLUE MOUNTAIN INN
Gordon Town Road
876-927-1700 or 876-927-2606
($$$$)
Reservations are required for this
beautiful eatery half an hour out of Kingston in the misty Blue
Mountains, tucked behind a bougainvillea-draped entrance. The menu
features beef and seafood, all served in a classic English-inn atmosphere.
White-glove service makes this a truly elegant evening. The restaurant
is open for dinner only.
Ice Cream
I SCREAM
Devon House, 26 Hope Road, New Kingston
($)
We normally wouldn’t put an ice
cream parlor in a restaurant section, but I Scream doesn’t
serve up your typical dairy dessert. You can find grapenut, guava,
mango, soursop and even Devon stout ice creams. Need we say
more?
Jamaican Restaurants
GROG SHOPPE
Devon House, 26 Hope Road, New Kingston
876-929-7027
($-$$)
This excellent restaurant offers
both indoor and open-air seating in a pub-like setting. Just steps
from Devon House itself, the restaurant menu includes pub lunches
such as roast beef or corned tongue as well as escovitch fish or
steamed fish in white wine, onions, tomatoes and herbs. Many Jamaican
specialties are offered, including curried goat, ackee and saltfish,
roast suckling pig, baked crab backs, curried chicken, jerked chicken
and stuffed cho-cho.
HOT POT
2 Alamont Terrace, Kingston
876-929-3906
($-$$)
This favorite local hangout serves
three meals a day: Jamaican favorites such as ackee and codfish,
rundown and escovitch fish. Wash it all down with fresh juices –
tamarind, coconut water and, if you visit during the holiday season,
sorrel. This popular place offers a real taste of Jamaican food
and a genuine Jamaican atmosphere to match. Very casual.
IVOR GUEST HOUSE
Jacks Hill
876-978-3476 or 876-978-3479
($$-$$$)
When you’re ready for a break from
continental or Jamaican food, this elegant restaurant serves Cantonese
and Thai delights. Don’t miss the dim sum on Sunday afternoons.
LA FRESCA BAR AND GRILL
Terra Nova Hotel, 17 Waterloo Road, New Kingston
876-926-9334 or 876-926-2211
($$$$ )
We enjoyed an elegant dinner at
La Fresca just days before Christmas one year. It was our last night
in Jamaica, and we dined outside on the great house verandah. Local
residents, decked in their holiday splendor, filled most tables.
The restaurant and the hotel were lit by tiny white lights and the
dinner was one we’ll never forget.
Menu selections include peppered
shrimp, grilled lobster tail, fish escovitch, fish soup, conch fritters
and fried fish.
PEPPERS
31 Upper Waterloo Road, Kingston
876-969-2421
($-$$ )
Want to feel like a Kingstonian?
Then do as the locals do and head to this casual restaurant, grab
a picnic table, and order up some jerk and a Red Stripe. This is
an open-air affair, completely casual. Specialties of the house
include jerk chicken, jerk pork and jerk fish. Garlic crab and grilled
lobster are other favorites. There are two bars here, as well as
a dance floor. The site is a popular after-work place for Kingstonians,
who come on Wednesday and Friday nights for seafood, Tuesday for
wine and cheese accompanied by live country music, karaoke on Thursdays,
and oldies tunes on Sunday evenings. Like the Hot Pot, we recommend
this casual eatery for a real taste of Jamaican food and a real
Jamaican atmosphere.
STRAWBERRY HILL
New Castle Road, Irishtown
876-944-8400
($$$)
The open-air restaurant at Strawberry
Hill serves a continental breakfast daily followed by lunch and
dinner featuring new Jamaican cuisine. These innovative dishes are
the creation of Jamaican-born Chef James Palmer. The Sunday brunch
is a Kingston event; look for diners in their Sunday best. Dinner
dishes include blackened sirloin steak with red onion marmalade;
grilled jumbo shrimp brushed with rum molasses; and grilled chicken
breast with roasted corn.
Strawberry Hill also offers a spa
menu. Items such as grilled yellowtail snapper with mushroom-tomato
broth and free-range grilled chicken breast on a bed of steamed
callaloo with peanut wine sauce liven the palate without adding
unnecessary calories or fat. We recommend this restaurant both for
its spectacular view and for its innovative cuisine featuring Jamaican
dishes with a culinary twist.
Seafood Restaurants
EL DORADO RESTAURANT
Terra Nova Hotel, 17 Waterloo Road, New Kingston
876-926-9334 or 876-926-2211
($$$)
El Dorado is the fine dining option
at Terra Nova, known for its seafood dishes as well as steaks. The
air-conditioned restaurant is a favorite meeting place for the power
lunch crowd and is open noon to 2:30 for lunch and 7 to 11 pm
for dinner.
Steak House
BLUE MOUNTAIN INN
Gordon Town Road
876-927-1700 or 876-927-2606
($$$$)
See listing under Continental Cuisine, above
More information on Kingston
• Introduction
• Where to stay
• Where to eat
• Transportation
• Things to see & do
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