Boat House

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Offering colorful decor, bamboo detailing and beachside ambience, this friendly bar and restaurant serves up sandwiches and burgers (including a great lionfish in beer batter option), as well as fish, chicken, beef, squid and shrimp mains with creative sides. There are good pizzas on Sundays, and lush homemade ice cream. A juice bar also serves bake and fish sandwiches.

Boathouse is the busiest spot in town each Wednesday evening (book ahead), with dinner service from 6pm followed by African drumming, limbo competitions and moko jumbie dancers from 8:30pm onwards; there's a TT$20 entry fee.

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