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Saint Lucia Jazz has become one of the major events on Saint Lucia’s calendar of events and surely a most anticipated on the Caribbean’s calendar. During the month of May, the island dances to the beat of jazz when music fills the air and tourism takes on a whole new meaning to all. What started as simply a marketing event to boost tourism industry arrivals during a low peak period, has now developed into a truly Saint Lucian Festival. Continue Reading

St. Lucia boasts a variety of dining options to tantalize the palates of all our visitors. And while Lucian and Caribbean ingredients and methods are featured, a host of other cuisines are available for those who wish to enhance their holidays with a full spectrum of eating experiences. Likewise, dining options from street-side cafes to the best fine dining await. Saint Lucia is regionally noted for its excellent dining opportunities. Discover all of them on www.diningguidestlucia.com. Your premier source to all restaurants and bars around the island! Continue Reading

The sea offers a bounty that is fresh and healthy. Landlubbers will find their share of chicken, beef, lamb, pork, pasta and vegetarian dishes. Many restaurants offer a unique blend of Caribbean or Continental ambience, and the quality of the food is second to none. Continue Reading

The site is aimed at being a full dining experience, providing with everything what you want to know about restaurants, chefs and much more. We provide restaurants with the opportunity to list all the necessary details about themselves so that potential clients can find what they want by doing a location search, or more advanced search for specifics like cuisine, entertainment and price as well as location. We have also provided a location where island chefs can showcase themselves - as far as we know its a first for the island. Products, do you need to let people know about what local products you have on offer? Are you looking for a place to showcase something you have just created? Well you have found the right place. With our “Made in St Lucia” section you can do just that! Continue Reading

St. Lucians enjoy food and this is evident by the large number of restaurants, cafes and fast food outlets on the island. The cuisine is largely a combination of International and Creole utilizing fresh local produce. There are also specialty restaurants such as French, Italian, Pizza, Indian and Steakhouses. And of course as one would expect almost every restaurant offers fish and seafood dishes. Continue Reading

Banana plantations dot the interior of St. Lucia, so it is no surprise that they play a starring role in the dishes prepared by St. Lucians. Banana bread, banana salad, boiled green bananas accompanied by salt fish--you'll find it all. The local cuisine includes plenty of fish--lobster, snapper, dolphin, kingfish, and swordfish--as well as pepperpot, spicy curries, and callaloo soup Continue Reading

Caribbean foods are sweet, spicy and bursting with flavour....use Mango,Lime, Ginger, Garlic, Chilli and Sweet Pepper for flavour and marinades....soften the heat with Coconut milk...use Breadfruit, Yam, Sweet Potato and Plantain to soak up all the delicious sauces. Continue Reading

Like much West Indian food, St Lucian food is quite hearty, with stews accompanied by rice ‘n’ peas or hefty vegetables such as plantain or sweet potato. The creole aspect introduces quite a few spices into the dishes, including féroce for example, a spicy fish filling that is often served in avocados. Other St Lucian specialities are puoile dudon a chicken stew flavoured with treacle and coconut. There are of course plenty of fish dishes. Continue Reading

What makes caribbean food so unique? Could it be that it is an amalgamation of cuisine from many different cultures? Caribbean cuisine takes it’s influences from African, Indian, Chinese and European communities. The wealth of colonisers from Europe that brought enslaved Africans to the islands and the further influx of indians and chinese who came to the islands as endentured workers all fused their food influences to create the Caribbean cuisine as we know it today. Continue Reading