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Cutler Bay · Burgers · Fish and seafood · Lunch
20400 Old Cutler Road, Cutler Bay, 33189
Rodbenders is the neighbourhood raw bar on Old Cutler Road, the kind of room where the oysters are shucked in front of you and the television is on. The menu runs to seafood first, with raw oysters, a fish dip that regulars order before they sit down, fried shrimp, blackened mahi tacos and a tuna poke bowl, and then broadens into burgers, sandwiches, wings and a chilli the house has won awards for. Prices sit in everyday territory rather than special-occasion territory, and the happy hour runs every day from three in the afternoon to seven in the evening, with domestic drafts at 3.75 dollars, domestic bottles and well drinks at 3.95. The hours are the other reason people come: the kitchen serves from eleven in the morning until midnight from Monday to Thursday, until one in the morning on Friday, and from ten in the morning at the weekend. That makes it one of the few places in Cutler Bay where a late arrival still gets a hot meal. For a guest staying nearby, it is the practical answer to a first evening: five minutes away, no reservation needed, and open long after a delayed flight into Miami has been sorted out.
Cutler Bay · Breakfast · Lunch · Delivery
19200 SW 106th Avenue, Unit 8, Cutler Bay, 33157
Tejas de Honduras is a family-run Honduran kitchen in a small unit on SW 106th Avenue, and it is a breakfast place first. The doors open at seven in the morning on weekdays and Saturdays and at eight on Sundays, and what comes out of the kitchen at that hour is the Honduran breakfast proper: two eggs, beans, butter, cheese, fried sweet plantains and a corn or flour tortilla on one plate. The other thing to order is a baleada, the folded flour tortilla that is Honduras in one hand, filled with beans, cheese and butter and, in the fuller version, meat and egg as well. Pastelitos come two to an order, ground beef with cabbage, sauce and cheese. The food is made in the house rather than bought in, the portions are sized for people going to work, and the room takes orders to go and delivers. Closing is at five in the afternoon on weekdays and six at the weekend, so this is a morning and midday address, not an evening one. For a guest staying nearby it solves the problem every self-catering holiday has on the first morning, before anyone has been to a supermarket.
Cutler Bay · Indian · Lunch · Dinner
20218 Old Cutler Road, Cutler Bay, 33189
Urban Rrasoi cooks Indian food on Old Cutler Road, a few doors from the raw bar and in a part of Florida where Indian kitchens are thin on the ground. Rasoi is the Hindi word for kitchen, and the house describes what it does as traditional recipes worked with fresh creativity rather than a fixed regional canon, which in practice means the northern Indian dishes most guests know sit beside plates the kitchen has made its own. Miami's produce and Miami's seafood find their way onto the card, as they do in most of the better kitchens down here. The room seats guests indoors, takes orders to go and delivers, and the hours are steady through the week: half past eleven in the morning until half past nine in the evening from Sunday to Thursday, until ten on Friday and Saturday, with the kitchen open right through the afternoon rather than closing between services. For anyone staying in Cutler Bay this is the one address in walking distance of Old Cutler Road that is not seafood, not a burger and not a chain, and it is open at three in the afternoon when everything else in the neighbourhood has shut its doors until dinner.
Cutler Bay · Lunch · Dinner · Takeout
18707 SW 107th Avenue, Cutler Bay, 33157
UpTop is a Jamaican kitchen with a lounge attached, on SW 107th Avenue at the northern edge of Cutler Bay. The card is the full island repertoire rather than a jerk stand: oxtail cooked slowly until it falls off the bone, curry goat, brown stew chicken and escovitch fish, each served the traditional way with rice and peas or steamed cabbage. Jerk chicken and the oxtail are the two dishes guests name most often, and portions are known for being generous enough that a single order does for two modest appetites. The doors open at eight in the morning and the kitchen runs through until nine in the evening from Monday to Thursday, which is unusual for the style and makes it useful at hours when most Caribbean kitchens in South Florida are closed. There is a lounge as well as a dining room, so the room fills and gets louder as the evening goes on. For a guest staying in Cutler Bay who wants to eat something that belongs to this part of Miami rather than to a national menu, this is the short drive to make, and takeout is the usual way people order it on a weeknight.
Cutler Bay · Bakery · Cakes and pastries · Cafe
10389 SW 186th Street, Cutler Bay, 33157
Panaderia 20 de Julio is a Colombian bakery and cafe on SW 186th Street, named after Colombia's independence day, and it opens at half past six in the morning, seven days a week. The counter is the reason to come: pandebono, the cheese bread that has to be eaten while it is still warm, empanadas, cheese fingers, and a run of Colombian and Cuban pastries and breads that turns over through the morning. There is hot food as well, the rib soup among it, which is a proper lunch rather than something to go with a coffee. The room is a cafe as much as a shop, clean and plain, with the pace of a place where most customers are on their way somewhere. Closing is at four in the afternoon. For anyone staying in Cutler Bay this is the morning stop: bread and pastries for the house, a coffee standing at the counter, and it opens two hours before anything else in the neighbourhood. It is also the least expensive way to feed a family of four before a day out, which matters on a holiday where the kitchen is part of the booking.
Cutler Bay · Steak and grill · Fish and seafood · Lunch
24775 SW 87th Avenue, Cutler Bay, 33032
Black Point Ocean Grill sits at the marina at the end of SW 87th Avenue, where Cutler Bay meets Biscayne Bay and the road simply stops at the water. The house calls itself a waterfront seafood restaurant and keeps the description honest: fresh seafood, produce, hand-cut steaks, salads and sandwiches, served in a dining room and, for most people who come here, on the open-air terrace over the water. Boats go in and out of the marina channel through the whole meal, and the restaurant points out that guests regularly watch the wildlife of the bay from their table, which is a fair description of a place built on the edge of Biscayne National Park rather than a claim about the food. Live bands play here, and the kitchen keeps long hours by South Florida standards: open at eleven every day of the week, and on Friday and Saturday until midnight. The mix on the menu is the local one, seafood alongside steak and a sandwich list, so a table of four rarely has to argue. For anyone staying in Cutler Bay it is the closest thing the town has to a proper evening out without driving north into Miami, and the ten minutes it takes to get there end at the water rather than in a car park on the highway.
Miami · Steak and grill · Lunch · Dinner
11575 Southwest 40th Street, Miami, FL 33165
Mo-Su 11:00-21:00
Shorty's BBQ is a barbecue restaurant on Southwest 40th Street in West Miami, one of several locations the business runs in South Florida. This is the West Miami branch. The menu is built around barbecue combinations, and the sides are as fixed a part of it as the meat: every combo arrives with the house coleslaw, golden French fries and garlic bread, with cornbread available in place of the bread for a small surcharge. All white meat can be requested for an extra dollar, five wings or a sausage can be added to any meal, and there are family feasts sized for a table rather than a person. Catering is offered as well, which tells you something about the portions. The restaurant is open every day from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, so lunch and dinner are both covered and there is no closing day to plan around. Ordering ahead is possible through the restaurant's own site. Southwest 40th Street is Bird Road, one of the main east-west routes across Miami-Dade County, and this stretch is straightforward to reach by car with parking on site. That matters here: West Miami is not a neighbourhood most visitors walk through, and this is a place you drive to. Bird Road runs west from Coral Gables towards the Florida Turnpike, so the restaurant is a practical stop on the way in or out of the city rather than a detour. You will find Shorty's BBQ at 11575 Southwest 40th Street, Miami, FL 33165.
Miami · Cafe · Breakfast · Lunch
900 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Mo-Su 08:00-18:00
Sagrado is a cafe on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami that calls itself a lifestyle cafe and means it as an instruction: the room is built for staying rather than for turning tables. Breakfast, coffee, brunch, happy hour and desserts are served all day. The kitchen leans Brazilian, which shows most clearly in two of its signatures. The Brigadeiro Collection is built around the Brazilian chocolate confection, and the Picanha Plate takes the cut of beef that is the centre of a Brazilian churrasco. Alongside those the bakery works from scratch every morning, and the coffee is single origin, pulled by the house baristas. The cafe opens every day from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, with seating outdoors. Breakfast runs into brunch and brunch into an afternoon, so there is no narrow window to hit. Number 900 Biscayne Boulevard sits in Park West, at the northern edge of downtown Miami, a few minutes on foot from the Kaseya Center and from Museum Park with the Perez Art Museum and the Frost Museum of Science. If you are staying downtown without a car, this is one of the places you can reach without planning a journey around it. The Metromover runs through this part of downtown and is free, which makes the cafe an easy stop from most of the central hotels and apartments even without walking the whole way. Seating outdoors on Biscayne Boulevard is the pick in winter; in the middle of a Miami summer afternoon the inside is the wiser choice. You will find Sagrado at 900 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132.
Miami · Cafe · Breakfast · Lunch
2001 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33137
Mo-Su 07:00-18:00
Rutina Coffee is a specialty coffee bar on Biscayne Boulevard in Edgewater, Miami. The shop pairs coffee with music culture and sells beans as well as serving them, so a bag can go home with you. What is on the bar is named openly, which is rarer than it should be. One of the house coffees is an Obata roasted by Finca's Coffee and grown in Santa Barbara, Honduras, at 1,400 to 1,600 metres, washed process, described as balanced and fruity with honey, a hint of nut, sweet vanilla and chocolate, and a citric mandarin note. If you care which farm your cup came from, this is a place that will tell you. The bar is open every day from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. There is seating outdoors and wireless internet, which together make it usable for a working morning rather than only a quick stop, and breakfast and lunch are both served. Edgewater runs along Biscayne Bay between downtown Miami and the Design District. It is one of the fastest-changing parts of the city, largely residential towers now, and the ground-floor businesses along Biscayne Boulevard are what give the neighbourhood its daytime life. Biscayne Boulevard itself is US-1 through this stretch, so the address is simple to find whether you are driving down from the north or up from downtown. Beans bought here can also be ordered through the shop's own online store, which is the practical answer if you find something on the bar you want to keep drinking at home. You will find Rutina Coffee at 2001 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33137.
Miami · Mediterranean · Lunch · Dinner
97 Northwest 25th Street, Miami, FL 33127
Mo-Fr 16:00-02:00; Sa-Su 11:00-02:00
Sha Wynwood is a Mediterranean restaurant with Asian influences in the Wynwood district of Miami, established in 2022. It is arranged as three connected spaces — a restaurant, a terrace and a lounge — and the character of the place changes as the evening goes on. The kitchen describes its menu as Euro-Asian-American, built on local ingredients and its own recipes, with wines, champagnes and signature cocktails alongside. Dinner is the serious part of the night. Later the room turns over to live music and DJs, so an early table and a late one are two different experiences of the same address, and it is worth deciding which one you came for. Opening hours run Monday to Friday from 4:00 pm to 2:00 am, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:00 am — so the weekend adds a daytime service the weekdays do not have. Reservations are taken by telephone. Wynwood is Miami's arts district, north of downtown, best known for the painted walls that cover much of the neighbourhood and for the galleries, breweries and shops that grew up around them. Northwest 25th Street sits in the middle of that, which makes this an easy stop to combine with an afternoon spent walking and looking. You will find Sha Wynwood at 97 Northwest 25th Street, Miami, FL 33127.
Orlando · Cafe · Vegetarian · Vegan
444 North Bumby Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803
Mo-Fr 07:00-20:00; Sa-Su 08:00-20:00
Drunken Monkey is a neighbourhood coffee house in the Milk District of Orlando, Florida, a short drive east of downtown. The shop describes itself as Orlando's local coffee shop, and the building is hard to miss: a small purple house on North Bumby Avenue that has become one of the district's landmarks. The coffee is roasted in house. Alongside it the kitchen bakes its own goods and cooks a menu that deliberately covers vegan, vegetarian and meat dishes rather than treating the first two as an afterthought, which is unusual enough in central Florida to be worth saying. Local artists hang work on the walls, and the art changes. Opening hours are long and simple: Monday to Friday from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. That covers breakfast, a working morning, lunch and an early dinner, and there is seating outdoors. The Milk District takes its name from the dairy at its centre and sits between downtown Orlando and the Audubon Park area. It is a walkable pocket of small independent businesses rather than a strip of chains, which makes it a reasonable base for a morning if you are staying in the east of the city. Orders can be placed ahead through the shop's own site if you would rather collect than wait, and the telephone is answered during opening hours. You will find Drunken Monkey at 444 North Bumby Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803.
Orlando · Japanese and sushi · Lunch · Dinner
3201 Corrine Drive, Orlando, FL 32803
Mo-Th 17:00-22:00; Fr 17:00-23:00; Sa 11:00-14:30, 17:00-23:00; Su 11:00-14:30, 17:00-22:00
DOMU is a ramen bar and Japanese kitchen inside East End Market, in the Audubon Park Garden District of Orlando, Florida. The first DOMU opened on this spot in November 2016. The East End Market location has carried a MICHELIN Guide Bib Gourmand award every year from 2022 through 2026, and in 2025 the kitchen was named a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef: South. It also features in season 7 of the Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil. Dinner is served seven days a week: Sunday to Thursday from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, and on Friday and Saturday until 11:00 pm. Brunch runs on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. Happy hour is daily from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, and on Tuesdays it runs all night. One thing worth planning around: DOMU takes no reservations. Seating is walk-in only, first come, first served, which the restaurant describes as equal-opportunity dining, so arriving early on a Friday or Saturday evening is the safer bet. A gratuity of 20 percent is added automatically for parties of six or more. The restaurant closes on July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. You will find it at 3201 Corrine Drive, Suite 100, Orlando, FL 32803, inside East End Market, a food hall and market building a short drive north-east of downtown Orlando. Two further DOMU kitchens operate in Florida: one at Dr. Phillips on Restaurant Row in Orlando, and one at St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville.
Ponta Delgada · Cafe · Lunch · Dinner
Rua Antonio Jose DAlmeida 8, 9500-053 Ponta Delgada
Mo 11:00-00:00; Tu 11:00-00:00; We off; Th 11:00-00:00; Fr 11:00-00:00; Sa 11:00-00:00; Su 11:00-00:00
Louvre Michaelense stands on the Rua António José d'Almeida in the middle of Ponta Delgada, the capital of São Miguel. The house keeps no website, so nothing here describes what it serves; what can be set down is the address, the hours and the name. The name is worth a sentence. Michaelense is the adjective for São Miguel — a person or a thing of this island — so the house calls itself the island's Louvre, which is a large claim made with a straight face and tells you it is a room that holds things as much as it is a place to sit. The hours describe an all-day room rather than a restaurant with services: eleven in the morning until midnight, without a break, six days a week. It is closed on Wednesday, which is the one thing to plan around. Thirteen hours in a stretch means a coffee at three in the afternoon and something at eleven at night are equally possible, and in a town where most kitchens shut between lunch and dinner that is the point. Ponta Delgada is about half an hour west of Ribeira Chã along the south coast, and this street is in the old centre, a few minutes from the harbour front and the city gates. You will find Louvre Michaelense at Rua António José d'Almeida 8, 9500-053 Ponta Delgada.
Água de Pau
Rua da Caloura 15, 9560-206 Água de Pau
Evenings only, from 19:00, a few days a week - the days change with the season, so call ahead
Adega Caloura is a restaurant in an old wine cellar in Caloura, the fishing hamlet below Água de Pau where the vineyards run down to the sea in stone-walled terraces. The vaulted room, the barrels and the candlelight make it the most atmospheric dinner on this stretch of the south coast, and it is small enough that a table is worth reserving. The kitchen is fish and seafood first: grilled tuna and tuna tartare when the boats bring it in, garlic prawns, octopus, with a couple of vegetarian plates and a long list of Azorean and mainland wines to go with the cellar. It opens only in the evening and only on some days of the week, which vary through the year - a phone call before driving down saves a wasted trip.
Água de Pau
Rua da Caloura 20, 9560-226 Água de Pau
Mon–Sun 11:00–22:00
Bar Caloura sits right on the water at Caloura, the small harbor below Água de Pau on the south coast of São Miguel. It began in the 1980s as the place where the local fishermen met, and it has kept that spirit: informal, with a terrace over the sea where the sound of the waves comes with the meal. The kitchen is about fresh fish and seafood - limpets, prawns and the catch of the day from the grill - alongside Portuguese dishes. The restaurant is accessible by wheelchair, takes reservations and also does takeaway.
Ribeira Grande · German home cooking · Fish and seafood · Lunch
Rua Direita de Cima 41, 9600-221 Ribeira Grande
Mo off; Tu 12:00-15:00, 18:45-22:00; We 12:00-15:00, 18:45-22:00; Th 12:00-15:00, 18:45-22:00; Fr 12:00-15:00, 18:45-22:00; Sa 12:00-15:00, 18:45-22:00; Su 12:00-15:00
O Silva has been cooking on the Rua Direita de Cima in Ribeira Grande since 1979 — more than forty years of the same kitchen, run on family recipes handed down through the generations. Regional character, tradition and freshness are the three things the house names for itself, in that order. It is unusually specific about what it is known for, which saves a visitor guessing. The famous dish is the Bife à Silva. Then there is arroz de cherne com miolo de camarão — wreckfish rice with shrimp — the espetada de cherne com camarão, cavaco, and filetes de abrótea, fillets of forkbeard. Cherne and abrótea are deep-water fish of these islands and are not things you will have eaten at home. Food is also prepared to take away, which the house calls flavours at home. It is closed on Monday. Tuesday to Saturday it serves lunch from midday to three and dinner from a quarter to seven until ten; on Sunday there is lunch only. The Rua Direita de Cima runs through the old centre of Ribeira Grande, the island's second town, on the north coast about forty minutes from Ribeira Chã. The drive crosses the middle of São Miguel over the ridge, past the Lagoa do Fogo, which makes the journey there worth as much as the meal at the end of it. You will find O Silva at Rua Direita de Cima 41, 9600-221 Ribeira Grande.
Água de Pau
Rua do Paúl 26, 9560-246 Água de Pau
Lunch and dinner; check by phone
Pérola do Oceano is a family restaurant in the village of Água de Pau, a few minutes up the hill from Ribeira Chã, where the owner cooks and the dining room is papered with postcards, photographs and notes left by guests from all over the world - the decoration has grown for years and is half the reason people come back. The food is Azorean home cooking, unfussy and generous: fried chicharros, the small mackerel of the islands, baked octopus, crab and fried prawns to start, a grilled beef tenderloin for those who want meat, and for dessert bean pudding or the house ice cream. Prices are village prices. It suits a family evening more than a formal one.
Ribeira Grande · Fish and seafood · Vegetarian · Vegan
Rua East Providence 68, 9600-524 Ribeira Grande
Mo 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00; Tu 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00; We off; Th 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00; Fr 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00; Sa 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00; Su 12:00-15:30, 19:00-22:00
Alabote stands on the Rua East Providence in Ribeira Grande, on the north coast of São Miguel. The building is the first thing the house talks about: an architecture built to hold contemporary, functional construction and the landscape together rather than to shut one out of the other, with the sunset as part of what you are there for. Fresh fish is what it stakes its name on — the best of the Azorean sea, as the house puts it, cooked carefully. An alabote is a halibut, so the name says the same thing. What sets it apart from most restaurants on the island is the breadth of the menu. Alongside meat and fish there are vegetarian and vegan dishes as a proper part of the card, and the traditional Azorean repertoire is kept as well. In an archipelago whose cooking runs on beef, pork and fish, a kitchen that treats a vegan diner as a guest rather than a problem is worth knowing about in advance. Service is in two sittings — midday to half past three, then seven to ten — and it is closed on Wednesday. Ribeira Grande is the island's second town, about twenty minutes over the ridge from Ponta Delgada and forty from Ribeira Chã. You will find Alabote at Rua East Providence 68, 9600-524 Ribeira Grande.
Vila Franca do Campo · Bakery · Cakes and pastries · Breakfast
Rua do Penedo 20, 9680-146 Vila Franca do Campo
Mo 09:00-19:00; Tu 09:00-19:00; We 09:00-19:00; Th 09:00-19:00; Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-19:00; Su 09:00-19:00
Queijadas do Morgado on the Rua do Penedo in Vila Franca do Campo makes one thing, and it is the thing this town is known for across the whole archipelago: the queijada da Vila. The house calls them the fantastic queijadas of Vila Franca do Campo, the only ones — and it is not really an exaggeration, because the recipe belongs to this town. A queijada da Vila is a small baked tart of egg, sugar and milk in a thin pastry case, wrapped in paper and sold by the dozen. Despite the name — queijo is cheese — there is no cheese in it. They are eaten as a mid-morning thing with coffee and they are what Azoreans carry back to family on the mainland, which is why the shop is set up for taking away rather than sitting down. It opens every day from nine in the morning to seven in the evening, with no closing day, which for an island bakery is unusual and useful — Sunday included. Vila Franca do Campo was the first capital of São Miguel until an earthquake and landslide destroyed it in 1522. It lies on the south coast, about twenty minutes east of Ribeira Chã along the coast road. You will find Queijadas do Morgado at Rua do Penedo 20, 9680-146 Vila Franca do Campo.
Ribeira Cha · German home cooking · Steak and grill · Lunch
Campo do Santana, 9600-096 Ribeira Cha
Mo 12:00-22:00; Tu 12:00-22:00; We 12:00-22:00; Th 12:00-22:00; Fr 12:00-22:00; Sa 12:00-22:00; Su 12:00-22:00
This is the restaurant of the Associação Agrícola de São Miguel — the island's farmers' association — at Campo do Santana. That ownership is the whole point of the place: the kitchen belongs to the people who raise the animals, and the house states plainly that its dishes are made with Azorean products. São Miguel is cattle country. The island is green the year round, the herds stand out in the open in every month, and Azorean beef and cheese are what the archipelago sends to the mainland. A restaurant run by the farmers' association is as close to the source as eating here gets, and it takes part in the regional programme that supports restaurants buying local produce. Some unusually practical detail is published: there are high chairs for babies and stain remover on hand, the technical sheets for every dish on the menu can be consulted on request — which for anyone with an allergy is worth more than a reassurance — and prices include VAT. It opens every day from midday to ten at night, straight through, with no closing day. Tables are booked through the restaurant's own site. Campo do Santana lies inland above the south coast, a few minutes from Ribeira Chã. You will find it at Campo do Santana, 9600-096 Ribeira Chã, São Miguel.
Playa del Inglés
Avenida de Tirajana 15, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon-Fri 13:00-23:00; Sat, Sun and holidays 12:00-23:00
Buffet Las Camelias on Avenida de Tirajana has been feeding Playa del Inglés for more than fifty years, and it does so on a grand scale: an all-you-can-eat buffet of over 300 Canarian, Spanish and international dishes. Much of it is cooked in front of you. At the show-cooking stations guests choose their ingredients and watch them go onto the grill, and around them are stations for grilled fish and seafood, freshly cooked shellfish, paella, Iberian cold cuts and cheeses, Italian and Tex-Mex dishes, grilled meats, homemade desserts and soft-serve ice cream. It is a family place with a terrace, its own parking and step-free access.
Playa del Inglés
Avenida de Gran Canaria 36, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon–Sun 11:00–22:00
Sawadee is one of three Thai restaurants of the same name in the south of Gran Canaria - the others are in Meloneras and San Agustín. This one is on Avenida de Gran Canaria in Playa del Inglés. Thai chefs cook in the style of Isaan, the north-east of Thailand: simple, strong flavors from fresh herbs, lime and fish sauce, with little sugar or butter. Pad thai, green curry (gaeng kiew waan) and pineapple fried rice are among the favorites, and a house platter brings several dishes together. The terrace is colorful and relaxed, the bar mixes cocktails, and everything on the menu can also be taken away.
Playa del Inglés
Avenida del Arquitecto Manuel de la Peña Suárez 30, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon-Fri 17:00-00:00; Sat-Sun 13:00-00:00
Greek Village has been cooking Greek food in the Santa Clara area of Playa del Inglés for more than twenty years. It grew out of a Greek taverna in San Agustín and brought the same recipes a few kilometers along the coast. The menu is the classic taverna one: gyros, kleftiko - lamb roasted slowly until it falls off the bone - moussaka and grilled meats, with feta, Greek yogurt and Kalamata olives alongside, and a list of Greek wines to go with them. There is a children's menu. On weekdays the kitchen opens in the evening, at weekends from lunchtime; tables can be booked online at any hour, or by phone while the restaurant is open.
Playa del Inglés
Avenida Sargentos Provisionales 9, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Daily 11:00-01:30
El Chuletón is a grill on Avenida Sargentos Provisionales in Playa del Inglés, and its name says what matters most: a chuletón is a thick, bone-in rib steak cut for the grill. Meat comes first on the menu, with fish, pizza and pasta for anyone at the table who wants something else. The kitchen stays open for a long day - from late morning until well after midnight - which makes it an easy choice after an afternoon on the beach or before a night out in Playa del Inglés.
Playa del Inglés
Avenida de Tirajana 36, Edificio Los Molinos, 35100 Playa del Inglés
Mon-Fri 13:00-16:00 and 19:00-24:00; weekends and holidays all day
Porta Pizza is a pizzeria chain from Gran Canaria, and its Playa del Inglés branch is in the Los Molinos building on Avenida de Tirajana. The menu is long on pizza, made with carefully chosen ingredients, and there are sandwiches and hot dogs as well. It is a practical address for an evening at the apartment: the pizzas can be eaten in, taken away or delivered. On weekdays it opens for lunch and again in the evening until midnight; at weekends and on holidays the kitchen does not close in between.
Bijilo
Brusubi Turntable, Bertil Harding Highway, Bijilo
Daily 9:00-24:00
La Parisienne is the Gambian bakery-café that has been baking in the French way since 1993, and this is its Bijilo branch at the Brusubi turntable, a few minutes from the Senegambia strip and the Bijilo beach hotels. The counter holds croissants, pains au chocolat, tarts and celebration cakes; the kitchen behind it serves breakfast, sandwiches, shawarma, pizzas and a menu of everyday meals through the day, with proper coffee and fresh juices. The room is fully air-conditioned, which on a hot afternoon is half the point, and there are tables outside for the cooler hours. It opens in the morning and stays open late, so it works as much for a first coffee as for a late dessert after a beach day.
Kololi
Senegambia Strip, Kololi
Mon–Sun 11:00–22:00
Darboe's is a Gambian-owned bar and restaurant in the middle of the Senegambia Strip in Kololi. It opens for breakfast and stays busy late into the night, with a band playing on most evenings, sport on a big screen and free Wi-Fi. The kitchen serves Gambian and international food, and it is the Gambian dishes that bring people back: fish benachin, rice cooked in one pot with fish and vegetables in a spiced tomato stock; yassa, chicken or fish in a sharp onion and lemon sauce; and domoda, the peanut stew served with rice. There are tables outdoors.
Serrekunda · Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
1st Street East, Serrekunda
Mo 08:30-00:00; Tu 08:30-00:00; We 08:30-00:00; Th 08:30-00:00; Fr 08:30-00:00; Sa 08:30-00:00; Su 11:00-00:00
The Fajara Garden Restaurant stands on 1st Street East in Fajara, on the Gambian coast. It keeps no website, so nothing here describes what comes out of the kitchen; the telephone number is the way to ask. The name says it is a garden restaurant, and in this climate that is a practical distinction rather than a decorative one. The Gambian coast runs hot and, for half the year, humid; eating under trees rather than under a roof is the difference between a comfortable evening and an endured one, which is why the better-known places here are gardens. The hours are long and start early: half past eight in the morning until midnight, six days a week, with Sunday beginning at eleven instead. There is no closing day and no break between services, so breakfast, a long lunch and a late dinner all happen at the same address. Fajara lies between Bakau and Kololi, a little inland of the beach, and is one of the older residential quarters of the coastal strip — quieter than the Senegambia road and within a short taxi ride of it. Bijilo, with the forest park and the beach hotels, is a few kilometres south. Getting between them is done by shared taxi or by the green tourist taxis, and both are cheap; walking the coast road after dark is not the local habit. You will find The Fajara Garden Restaurant on 1st Street East, Fajara, Gambia.
Serrekunda · German home cooking · Breakfast · Lunch
Bertil Harding Highway 7, Serrekunda
Mo 07:30-23:00; Tu 07:30-23:00; We 07:30-23:00; Th 07:30-23:00; Fr 07:30-23:00; Sa 08:30-23:00; Su 08:30-23:00
Soun is a café and restaurant on the Bertil Harding Highway, the coast road that runs along the Gambian Atlantic shore. It describes what it does as breakfast, brunch and beyond — Afro-fusion cooking with a nostalgic Gambian flair. The name carries the whole idea and the house explains it. Soun comes from the Wolof word souna, a variety of local millet, and it honours Joyce's grandmother, Kumba Soun Sanneh, who was born in the souna harvest season. A restaurant named after a grain and a grandmother is telling you where its cooking is rooted before you read a single dish. My Gambia Magazine described the room as a fusion of flavours with a welcoming atmosphere, warm lights, soft music and staff dressed to match the decor — every part of it, they wrote, reflecting Joyce's commitment. The kitchen keeps separate cards for breakfast, for lunch and dinner, and for drinks. It opens at half past seven in the morning on weekdays and half past eight at the weekend, running to eleven at night every day with no closing day. The coast road connects Bijilo, Kololi and Serrekunda, so this is a few minutes from the beach hotels and from the Bijilo Forest Park, where the red colobus monkeys come down to the path. Serrekunda is the largest town in the Gambia, considerably bigger than the capital, and the coastal strip below it is where almost everything a visitor uses sits. You will find Soun at Bertil Harding Highway 7, Serrekunda, Gambia.
Serekunda
67 Kairaba Avenue, Serekunda
Mon–Sun 11:00–22:00
Alliance Café opened in February 2021 in the garden of the Alliance Française de Banjul, in the institute's building on Kairaba Avenue. It was set up as a café and restaurant for everyone, bringing art, culture and food together in one place. The kitchen leans French and Italian, and the garden hosts regular evenings: French cheese and wine tastings, and traditional kora music played in the calm of the courtyard. It opens in the morning and stays open into the evening, later towards the weekend.
Serrekunda · Dinner · Late night · Seating outdoors
Senegambia Road, Serrekunda
Mo 17:00-02:00; Tu 17:00-02:00; We 17:00-02:00; Th 17:00-02:00; Fr 17:00-02:00; Sa 17:00-02:00; Su 17:00-02:00
Darboe's Restaurant is on the Senegambia Road in Kololi. It keeps no website, so nothing is written here about its cooking — only what can be checked, and the hours are the most telling part of that. It opens at five in the afternoon and closes at two the following morning, every day of the week. There is no lunch and no breakfast at all. A kitchen that does not open until the evening and runs until two is an evening and night house rather than a restaurant with a late licence, and anyone walking past at midday will find it closed. That fits the street. The Senegambia Road — known simply as the Strip — is the centre of the Gambian coastal tourist area, a run of restaurants, bars and hotels between Kololi and the beach, and it is busiest after dark. Darboe is one of the most common Gambian surnames, and a restaurant carrying it plainly is signalling a local house rather than a hotel dining room. Bijilo lies immediately south of Kololi, so this is a short taxi ride or a long walk from the beach hotels there. The Gambia is the smallest country on the African mainland — a strip of land either side of its river, nowhere much more than fifty kilometres across — and its entire tourist coast is this one stretch of shore, which is why so much of it is concentrated on a single road. You will find Darboe's Restaurant on Senegambia Road, Kololi, Gambia.
Costa Calma
Calle la Parábola 3, 35627 Costa Calma
Monday to Friday 9:00-17:00; closed at the weekend
kapé is a small coffee house tucked behind the shopping area of Costa Calma that does something no one else on the island does: it serves only coffee grown on Fuerteventura, roasted on the premises. On roasting days you can watch and ask, and the espresso, cappuccino and cold brew that come out of it are the reason people from other resorts drive over. It is also the breakfast place of Costa Calma - you put your own plate together from a list of small dishes, German and Spanish side by side, with waffles, cheesecake and croissants for the sweet half of the table, and tapas, sandwiches and burgers later on. Open weekdays only, nine to five, so plan it for a weekday morning.
Costa Calma · Spanish · Mediterranean · Breakfast
Calle Roque del Morro, 35627 Costa Calma
Mo 10:30-22:30; Tu 10:30-22:30; We 10:30-22:30; Th 10:30-22:30; Fr 10:30-22:30; Sa 10:30-22:30; Su 10:30-22:30
Restaurante Costa Beach is on Calle Roque del Morro in Costa Calma. It keeps no website, so nothing is written here about what it serves; the telephone number is the way to ask. The hours are the useful part. It opens at half past ten in the morning and closes at half past ten at night, every day of the week, without a closing day and without the afternoon break that most Spanish kitchens take. Twelve hours straight through covers a late breakfast, a lunch at three, and a dinner — and on this coast the middle of that is the hard slot to fill. Roque del Morro is one of the streets running through the town between the FV-2 coast road and the beach. Costa Calma is laid out as a resort rather than as a village: it grew from nothing in the 1980s along the Playa de Sotavento, and the streets are named after the rocks and points of the peninsula. The town sits at the narrowest part of Fuerteventura, where the island is barely five kilometres across, with the Atlantic on both sides and the wind coming over from the east almost every day. That wind is the reason the beach here is famous and the reason an inland street can be a good deal more comfortable to eat in than the front, particularly in the afternoon. You will find Restaurante Costa Beach on Calle Roque del Morro, 35627 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Spanish · Lunch · Dinner
Calle Risco Blanco, 35627 Costa Calma
Mo 12:30-22:00; Tu 12:30-22:00; We 12:30-22:00; Th 12:30-22:00; Fr 12:30-22:00; Sa 12:30-22:00; Su 12:30-22:00
El Bar de Marko stands on Calle Risco Blanco in Costa Calma, and by review count it is the best-known place to eat in the town. It keeps no website, so nothing here describes the kitchen — we can point at no source for it, and a guess would be worse than silence. What can be said is the shape of its week, and it is a simple one: half past twelve to ten at night, every day, with no closing day and no break between lunch and dinner. On a resort coast where a good many kitchens shut for the afternoon and take a day off in the week, a house that never does either is the reliable option — the answer when it is four in the afternoon, or when it is Monday. Calle Risco Blanco is named after the white cliff, which is what risco blanco means, and it runs back from the beach road into the town rather than along the front. Costa Calma lies at the neck of the Jandía peninsula in southern Fuerteventura, about an hour from the airport at Puerto del Rosario and twenty minutes from Morro Jable. The telephone is the way to ask what is on and to book. You will find El Bar de Marko on Calle Risco Blanco, 35627 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
Punta los Molinillos, 35628 Costa Calma
Mo 09:00-00:00; Tu 09:00-00:00; We 09:00-00:00; Th 09:00-00:00; Fr 09:00-00:00; Sa 09:00-00:00; Su 09:00-00:00
Rapa Nui is a surf bar on Punta los Molinillos in Costa Calma, and it is more than a place to eat: alongside the food and drink it runs a surf school and Segway excursions, and publishes a weekly programme of what is on. That combination is the point of it — the bar is the meeting place for the school rather than a restaurant that happens to have boards outside. It is open from nine in the morning until midnight, every day of the week, which covers breakfast before a lesson and a drink long after one. The setting explains the business. Costa Calma sits on the Jandía peninsula in the far south of Fuerteventura, on the Playa de Sotavento — a stretch of white sand and shallow lagoon several kilometres long. The trade winds blow across it almost without pause, which is why this coast is one of the best-known windsurfing and kitesurfing places in Europe and why a surf school sits on the beach road rather than in the town. Rapa Nui is the Polynesian name for Easter Island, which is an odd flag to plant in the Atlantic and tells you the register the bar is going for. The weekly programme is the thing to look at before arriving: what happens here changes by the day, and turning up on the wrong one means a quiet bar rather than the place the reviews describe. You will find Rapa Nui at Punta los Molinillos, 35628 Costa Calma.
Costa Calma · Steak and grill · Lunch · Dinner
Calle L.T.U., 35627 Costa Calma
Mo 13:00-23:00; Tu 13:00-23:00; We 13:00-23:00; Th 13:00-23:00; Fr 13:00-23:00; Sa 13:00-23:00; Su 17:00-22:30
Steak House San Borondón stands on Calle L.T.U. in Costa Calma. It keeps no website, so what it serves beyond the steak in its name is not described here. The name is worth knowing, because it is not a family name. San Borondón is the phantom eighth island of the Canaries — a landmass that generations of islanders reported seeing on the western horizon, that appeared on Spanish charts for three centuries, and that several expeditions sailed out to find and never did. It is now understood to have been a mirage. Naming a restaurant after it is a local joke of a particular kind. The hours differ at the weekend, which is the practical thing to note. Monday to Saturday it opens at one in the afternoon and runs to eleven at night, straight through. On Sunday it opens only at five in the evening and closes at half past ten — so there is no Sunday lunch here. A steak house is a reasonable thing to find here rather than an incongruous one. Fuerteventura has almost no agriculture — the island is dry enough that goats are most of what it raises — so meat is shipped in on the same boats as everything else, and a house that makes beef its subject is making a choice rather than using what is to hand. Costa Calma is on the Jandía peninsula in the south of Fuerteventura, and the restaurant is a few minutes from the Playa de Sotavento, the long shallow lagoon beach that the town was built for. You will find Steak House San Borondón on Calle L.T.U., 35627 Costa Calma.
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