Daylight Bakery & Diamond Barrel

Top choice in US Virgin Islands


It's mostly locals who visit this friendly spot at downtown's edge. If you can get past the guava tarts, sugar cakes and dum bread (flour sweetened with coconut and baked in a 'dum' oven), then pans of okra, fish stew, fungi (semihard cornmeal pudding) and more island dishes await. Point to your choice, and servers will heap it into a Styrofoam clamshell.

You're welcome to eat in at the no-frills tables, but most folks carry out.


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