 | Ocho Rios Restaurants | Tips 1 - 10 of 20 |  |
Popular Restaurants | Other Restaurants Tips | All Tips (20) This is a buffet style with all types of local foods and fruit. Cost is $12.00 per person. Lunch is from 12:30pm to 3:30pm. The deck has a beautiful view and feels like your in a tree house. Leave a Comment
|
Visiting Ocho Rios?
Read reviews about Ocho Rios Hotels
Real Reviews from Real VirtualTourist Members.
We had originally planned to eat the majority of our evening meals in the various local restaurants of Ocho Rios, despite the fact that the Blue House offers a very competitively priced dinner, bed and breakfast rate – mainly because we like the variety and choice that going out for dinner offers. But after our excellent meal on the first evening, and realising that we were staying slightly further out of town than we had thought, we changed our minds and opted for dinner “at home” on the remaining evenings. This truly was no hardship! We enjoyed excellent home cooking from Darryl’s kitchen and the good company of Elise and our fellow guests. Although these was no choice on any particular evening, we were always consulted about whether we would like the planned offering (e.g. “Do you all like Chinese food?”) and had been asked in advance about food allergies, preferences etc.
Three courses were offered each evening. Here are some typical menus:
Day One: Starter – conch balls with sorrel chutney (very tasty). Mains – curried goat with rice & peas and/or chicken fricassée, accompanied by mixed vegetables and salad. Dessert – chocolate cake.
Day Two: Starter – jerked chicken wings. Main course – spaghetti with shrimp and roasted vegetables. Dessert – orange cake.
Day Three: a lovely Chinese meal (Darryl and Elise are Chinese Jamaicans) with pork & fungus, chicken & mushrooms, really good mixed Chinese vegetables and boiled rice – followed again by one of Darryl’s great cakes.
Day Four: no starter but again a selection of mains, this time chicken curry and conch served in a slightly spicy sauce. Dessert was a tangy lemon mousse.
The cost of adding dinner to our bill on these evenings was a very reasonable US$50 for two, including soft drinks (home-made fruit punch, sodas or water). Beer was also available, for which there was a charge, though I’m not sure what – when Elise presented us with our bill on leaving she simply asked that we add a little bit to cover the beers we’d drunk!
The bad news is that you have to be staying at the Blue House to eat here – but unless you’re set on an all-inclusive I can’t imagine there’s anywhere better! Theme: Eclectic/InternationalPrice: US$21-30 » Currency ConverterComparison: about average
|
 | |  |
Seeing our enthusiasm for Jamaican cooking, Elise mentioned that Scotchies would be a good option, and Dave took us there one day for lunch. It’s a well-established traditional jerk centre on the main road between Ocho Rios and St Ann’s Bay. The food is cooked on large grills, and the choice is limited but very appetising. You need first to place your order with, and pay, the cashier – jerk pork or chicken, plus whatever sides (breadfruit, yam, festival etc.) or drinks you’d like. You’re given a receipt which you then hand in at the next counter, where your order is filled. All items are neatly wrapped in foil for safe transport, or you can do as we did and eat at wooden tables grouped in open-sided shelters in the pretty garden.
We chose a ¼ lb. portion of jerk pork each, plus one portion of breadfruit and one of festival – the latter is a slightly sweet sausage shaped fried dumpling, a little like a doughnut and very tasty. With a soda each (the refreshing local grapefruit drink, Ting) this delicious lunch cost US$10 for both of us – great value. Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveDirections: Set back off the main road between Ocho Rios and St Ann’s Bay (south side, i.e. on your left when going away from Ochi)
|
| | |
On most of our evenings in Ocho Rios we had dinner at the Blue House, but we did eat out on one evening as we wanted to see what else the town had to offer. The Spring Gardens Restaurant was recommended by Darryl and Elise and proved a good choice. It has a smallish interior and a large garden area in two sections. We ate in the furthest one – the downsides were perhaps its proximity to the main road with its traffic noise, and the fact that it was not very well lit, so the menu was hard to read!
Despite the small drawbacks mentioned above, the food was very tasty. The restaurant specialises in seafood, cooked with traditional Jamaican flavours. We both started with the crab cake served with a spicy sauce (a bit like a Thai sweet chilli sauce) which was very nice. For a main course I chose jerk conch, accompanied by a jacket potato (I could alternatively have had fries, or rice & peas), while Chris had the “reggae shrimp” – cooked in a beer batter and served with tartare sauce and rice & peas. Neither of us could manage a dessert! With two beers each (we sampled Kingston lager as a change from the ubiquitous Red Stripe, but liked it a little less) and service, our bill came to US$68. Theme: SeafoodPrice: US$31-40 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averagePhone: (876) 795-3149Directions: A little out of town on the eastern side, on the main bypass – you may prefer to take a cab if staying in town (Elise kindly gave us a lift) but if you’re driving there seemed to be plenty of parking.
|
| | |
This was the best food we had at Sandals. The menu has a nice variety of food from around the world. Although, not very authentic, the meal was better than anything else we had. There is a dress code. It's probably the fanciest of the restaurants at both Sandals Ocho Rios and Sandals Dunn's River. Dress Up.
The chicken. It was by far the best dish on the table! The desserts weren't bad either. Leave a Comment Theme: Eclectic/InternationalAddress: Sandals Dunn's RiverWebsite: www.sandals.com
|
Visiting Ocho Rios?
Read reviews about Ocho Rios Hotels
Real Reviews from Real VirtualTourist Members.
The restaurant of the Club Caribbean has a Jamaican dishes and international cooking. A part of the restaurant is inside, but you can sit at the tables outside around the swimmingpool having dinner by candlelight. The restaurant is open to the public, so you can have dinner even if you aren't a guest of the hotel.
Try the Jamaican cooking, I liked the jerk! Leave a Comment Theme: LocalAddress: At the Club Caribbean Hotel - Runaway Bay
|
This is a very nice street side cafe type place. The food is great and inexspensive.
A great place for locals and Cruiseship passengers to hang out.
You must sit at the bar and try a tropical drink called the hummingbird. It's to "die for"
Also a great people watching place. Sit back and enjoy the music and all the happenings going on around you. Making everything crisp!
The coconut shrimp were amazing! Nice portions of food.
The fries are great also. Theme: LocalPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Main Street., Ocho Rios, JamaicaDirections: Ask anyone they will be able to show you.
|
cooked burgers (unlike other bigger chains), jerk chicken burgers Leave a Comment Theme: Fast FoodPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageDirections: on Main St.
|
The food is always good at Margaritaville, and the drinks are excellent! The atmosphere here is awesome. They have a DJ playing music from a half cut off boat called "Euphoria". So take a shuttle service from your hotel, right to Margaritaville, which when you get there, you get dropped off right at the entrance which is safe! Before you leave, negotiate a price with the shuttle, and time to pick you back up! Everything else is "No Worries Mon"!
Be aware of the coconut guy, ha ha, as he certainly will come around to give you a shot, and I walked up to the bar, as the bartender told me to hold my head back and open up wide! Thats some good stuff they poor down your throat, just remember to tip them a buck or two! When paying your bill, the tip is already included in the price so don't overlook that, just have fun and RELAX IN JAMAICA MON!
|
Ocho Rios Jerk Centre is great place to eat, or just hang out and drink. If you want great Jamaican jerk barbecue, this it the place to go in Ocho Rios. Very popular with the locals.
Jerk fish, chicken, and ribs. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: US$11-20 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: DaCosta Drive
|
 | 1 | 2 |  |
|
- Renaissance Jamaica Grande Resort
Main St, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Village Hotel
54 Main St., Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Chrisanns Beach Resort
P.O. Box 104, Tower Isle St. Mary, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Sandals Ocho Rios Resort and Golf Club
Main St, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Silver Seas Hotel
66 James Street St. Ann, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Turtle Beach Towers
Main Street PO Box 73, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Sandals Grande Ocho Rios Beach & Villa Resort
Main St, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Crane Ridge Resort
17 Da Costa Dr, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Sandals Ocho Rios & Golf Club
Main St, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Sand Castles Resort
Main Street, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Hedonism III
Main Street PO Box 250, St. Ann, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Couples Ocho Rios All Inclusive
Tower Isle, St. Mary's, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Fishermans Point Resort
Turtle Beach Road PO Box 747, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Breezes Runaway Bay Resort And Golf Club By Superclubs All-Inclusive
Main St, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Crane Ridge Resort (17 De Costa Drive )
17 Da Costa Dr, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
|
on July 4, 2004
on March 27, 2008
on September 24, 2002
on February 22, 2003
on June 7, 2007
on January 20, 2004
on April 4, 2006
on May 7, 2005
