St Barthélemy / Special Interests / Food and Cooking
Food is one of the pleasures of a visit St Barths. The restaurants are excellent and well supplied with ingredients from France and Florida (some flown in fresh to St Maarten and shipped in time to reach the dinner tables that same evening). See more information in our St Barths Food & Drink section.
But with so many villas and so much self-catering accommodation there are also many alternatives to eating out.Nowadays it is possible to hire a chef (talk to your villa rental company), but there are also caterers that sell prepared and pre-cooked gourmet meals (Maya’s To Go in the complex opposite the airport and the Rôtisserie St Jean in St Jean). Finally, some of these caterers even offer room service to your villa or hotel room.
No cooking courses are currently available in St Barths. There have been in the past and no doubt will be again.
Food and Cooking on St Barthélemy
Recommended accommodation view more
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Eden Rock Hotels & Resorts
A small, stylish and extremely fashionable 32-room hotel with 2 villas set on its own rocky promontory above a lively stretch of St Jean beach, right at the heart of St Barths’ north coast Read more
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Hôtel Le Toiny Hotels & Resorts
A secluded and refined small hotel with cottages ranged across a hillside in the east of St Barths. There are just 15 private suites, each with a pool and decorated in gracious style, Read more
Upcoming events
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09 Jun
Carnivals & Festivals | Barbados
Food demo by award winning chef Paul Wedgwood of Wedgwood The Restaurant in Edinburgh. The cookery demo takes place at 11.30am at Relish Epicurea in The Limegrove Lifestyle Centre in Holetown and is followed by lunch and drinks for US$50/Bds$100.
Head out into the countryside for the afternoon on a Rum Shop Tour of Barbados with Jeep Safari. Visit a selection of the island's charming rum shops and enjoy some scenery at the same time. Tour from 12noon to 4pm and includes lunch and drinks for US$72.50/Bds$145.
Read Food and Cooking articles
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Art in the Caribbean
Stephen Thorpe reviews 'Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction' by Anne Walmsley and Stanley Greaves.
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Looking for inspiration?
- Head to St Jean beach where the hip, beautiful people go to see and be seen
- Indulge yourself in some designer retail therapy
- Sample the delights of fine French wines and dining
- Get pampered at one of the many island spas
- Experience a night of cinema under the stars during the annual St Barth Film Festival
