January 16, 2009

A Place You Cant Miss

You can't miss this building it's bright lime green with cobalt shutters at the end of the block past the elementary school. Sit inside and enjoy the paintings by local artists and a little "sip sip" (Bahamian for gossip) with the locals, or dine on the shaded deck overlooking Harbour Island's pink beach. The restaurant serves lunch only, from 11:30 AM to 4 PM. The menu is eclectic, with local fish dishes using Mediterranean and Asian ingredients. One of Harbour Island's most contemporary eateries, its specialties include spicy conch chili, carrot cake with ginger-caramel frosting, and Sip Sip rum punch. Check out the blackboard for the daily specials

Tags : restaurant harbour island 

January 15, 2009

Great Lunch

The only problem with this restaurant is that it's closed every evening (except for large parties), preferring to focus on lunch instead. Set on a dune, close to both the Ocean View Guest House and the Dunmore Beach Club, it was built in 2003 in a traditional, green-painted clapboard-sided design evocative of Harbour Island buildings that are a lot older. Inside, the cuisine is the product of the Bahamian/American couple Jim Black and Julie Lightbourne, who met in Africa while Jim was working in the safari business. Within a brightly painted blue and mostly green interior, with mahogany doors, windows, and bar tops, you'll find a changing menu that, depending on the whim of the owners, might highlight Bahamian, Italian, French, Thai, or Pacific Rim cuisine. The menu might include hummus with grilled pita bread conch chili (a welcome variation on conch chowder) fresh salads made with tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella baba ghanouj, the eggplant specialty that originated in Lebanon quesadillas, including a version stuffed with lobster, shrimp, and tropical fruit salsa and a flavorful curried chicken salad studded with chunks of apple and served with mango chutney. Grouper filets, prepared in at least two different ways, are usually available as well. The restaurant's name, incidentally, translates from local patois as "gossip."

Tags : lunch quesadillas grouper filets lobster