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Cuisine of Montego Bay for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

In Montego Bay, travelers can visit an excellent national restaurant. The popular resort delights its guests with plenty of gastronomic venues. The local cuisine features simple and nourishing dishes but is considered as one of the most exotic cuisines in the world. One dish can contain savory and sweet ingredients, exquisite spices and seasonings at the same time.

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The national cuisine also features plenty of exotic fruit which is impossible to resist. You should taste an oranic. It is a citrus that is bred as the result of crossing a tangerine and an orange. An ugly, the hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit, has an unusual taste too.

The true classic of the local cuisine is breadfruits that are added to many interesting garnishes and other dishes. Another unique fruit the locals prefer to take for breakfast is akees. They grow on trees and taste like fried eggs. Akees may seem very exotic to foreign travelers but the locals have them almost every day. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

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For dinner, the locals have meat dishes and different pastries. At all local restaurants, visitors have a worthy choice of goat and pork dishes. Boiled rice or beans are often served as a side dish. National restaurants will impress fans of seafood too, as they offer a huge choice of such dishes. Shrimps, mussels, and squids are often marinaded. Some chefs fry them in oil or over an open fire.

One of the popular dishes is jerk barbecue that you can’t taste in any other city in the world. The national drink is tea but it is very different from the tea foreigners usually have. Here, tea is any hot drink that is cooked of herbs and added with other different beverages. Milk, spices, rum, and even fish can be added to tea. As for refreshing drinks, the locals prefer coconut milk and skyjuice cocktails made of fruit syrup and ice chips.

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The most famous restaurant in Montego Bay is the Calabash that specializes in classical Jamaica cuisine. Here, you can taste traditional curry with lamb, different fish dishes, lobster soup, and lobsters with garlic sauce. Besides traditional dishes, the restaurant offers a lot of interesting new ones. They are mostly cooked of local products. At a certain time, the guests can enjoy the buffet at the Calabash.

Another restaurant, the Belfield 1794, will also delight you with a wide range of interesting dishes and an inimitable romantic atmosphere. The restaurant specializes in Jamaica cuisine too. Here, you can taste interesting meat dishes with savory spices and vegetables. The restaurant also offers rare delicacies. All the dishes feature a unique service.

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Another interesting restaurant is the Day-O Plantation that was opened in a beautiful historic building at the beginning of the 20th century. At one time, this building served as a weight chamber where sugar produced on local plantations was weighed. For several decades, the restaurant has belonged to one family. Here, you can taste very interesting dishes cooked by old family recipes. The specialty of the restaurant is chicken stewed in red wine. The owners of the Day-O Plantation also cook a lot of interesting fish dishes.

The specialty of the Town House restaurant is fish with hot sauce that is not offered by other restaurants of the resort. Also, you can taste here classical pumpkin soup and curry with seafood. Many people visit the restaurant specifically to taste real Caribbean lobsters.

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In the region, Indian cuisine is quite common too. It is served at the Akbar restaurant. It offers popular chicken tikka, traditional vegetable samosa, and a lot of savory dishes with real Indian spices. This restaurant is remarkable for its menu that is updated several times a year. Even regular customers always have an opportunity to taste a new dish. In Montego Bay, there is also an Italian restaurant named Cucina Romana. It offers wonderful veal with saffron, fish specialties, traditional lasagna, and poultry.

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It would be a mistake not to mention Ital cuisine. This is a special cuisine that was developed by the Rastafarian movement. When cooking food, Rastafarians observe strict rules. They never eat meat and cook food without salt and oil. One may think that Ital food is plain and boring, but that is a mistake. Local cooks use different combinations of spices and herbs that are very delicious. That being said, tourists will hardly find Ital cuisine in ordinary restaurants and cafes. Only special venues for Rastafarians offer it. Tourists can find these dining establishments if they ask local guides. … Open

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