Just came on our radar as possibly the next Caribbean vacation spot. Love to hear some thoughts on food, wine, and whatever else interesting if you have been.
Spent 2 weeks there in 2011 , rented the burke house which is part of the stone house complex on the nill near the airport. Amazing place to live with 360 views of ocean St vincent, Mustique, etc .
Didn’t have a great meal there but all were serviceable. Cooked a few nights after shopping in the open market in town and buying some fish from a rasta.
Definitely worth taking the friendship rose sail cruise to Tobago key for a day of snorkeling and incredivble views of most of the grenadines. We also took a catamaran to mustique for a day and saw jayz and beyonce on the beach
Spent a few weeks here 2012 and 2013.
Stayed at Firefly, and we did our own meals. Rodney the manager, Donovan and Ernie for excellent service. They are really cool and laid back.
Room we had- Cinnamon- is very special and overlooks the ocean, but it is not on the beach. We preferred it for the trade winds and never once used our air conditioning. Careful with the Mosquitos though.
Very good lunch and dinner at Coco’s Place ( Coco is a very nice guy), Auberge de Grenadine for lobster- Jacques and his wife Eileen are really great people and excellent rose by the glass, and Fernando’s Hideaway for dinner is excellent but reses there are necessary. Flip flops and shorts is the dress. It is a port town, no big hotels, and a sailing destination.
We most enjoyed provisioning pretty much anything we wanted at Doris Fine Foods- excellent wines and Champy and service, and going to Paget Farm, near the airport, buying FRESH lobster, conch and fish from the fisherman and grilling it! **Make sure they don’t switch the lobsters on ya from those just out of the water to those in the holding pens. 5 bucks extra gets you covered and everything cleaned. if you want the lobster cooked they’ll do it for you also over a wood fire. 10 bucks a pound, and they rock with white burg and Champy.- Bequia supplies a large part of the Carribean with Lobsters.
Don’t miss Maranne Yogurt and ice cream. Doris sells them also,
Mostly British tourists and nothing fancy, very good weather, a few good beaches- avoid Princess Margaret in high season as it is too crowded.
Fruit from the Rastas is great plus whatever else you wish to buy from them…
And you’ll need a rental car. Ask Rodney to hook you up as there are no rental car companies.
You fly to Barbados. We avoid Barbados if we can!
Jump up can be fun at Frangipani.- BBQ and dance night.
We just keep to ourselves. Love the fresh seafood and fruit with Champy sitting on the terrace with the trade winds blowing and eating some passion fruit.
Say hi to me to the Rastas.
We chartered a sailboat and cruised from St Vincent to Grenada.
Had a captain, cook and mate and we hit all the islands. We ate mostly on board as the cook was gourmet. She knew where to go for fresh seafood on each island. And, we caught some of our own including a nice dolphin caught while passing from island to island. We spent a lot of time snorkeling and scubaing and exploring the small Grenadine islands. Unfortunately the boat is no longer chartered.
If you want to see the Grenadines, this is, IMHO, the best way.
Would skip Grenada if we went back.
Really loved Petit St Vincent.
The botanical garden on SV was fascinating.
On our way we went to Barbados and would skip it too. Stayed at Sandy Lane but, though nice, was just another resort hotel.