CARIBBEAN FOOD EXPERIENCES DESTINATIONS


CARIBBEAN FOOD


FESTIVALS


Clients serious about food?


Here are some key culinary festivals to look out for


Curaçao Culinair April 5-6


Oistins Fish Festival, Barbados April 20-22


Nevis Mango & Food Festival July


Breadfruit


Festival, Saint Vincent August


Saint Lucia


Food & Rum Festival


September 19-22


Eat Local Aruba Restaurant Month October


Tobago Blue


Food Festival October


Taste of Dominica October


Barbados Food and Rum Festival October


Jamaican Food & Drink Festival October 19-27


British Virgin Islands


Food Fete November


ABOVE: Boucan by Hotel Chocolat, Saint Lucia


LEFT: Colony Club, Barbados


 INDULGE IN A CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP Saint Lucia knows how to do chocolate, with cocoa trees scattered across its lush-green landscape, and several resorts offering classes for those wanting to learn how to make it. For one of the most indulgent, suggest Boucan by Hotel Chocolat, where guests can embark on a ‘tree-to-bar’ experience combining a tour of the resort’s 60-hectare Rabot Estate cocoa plantation with a chocolate-making class where they’ll come away with their own rich, creamy bar to feast on ($61 for guests, $88 for non-guests). Close by, Anse Chastanet offers its


own version with a guided walk around the Emerald Estate – its organic farm, home to more than 2,000 cocoa trees – followed by a workshop at the resort’s Chocolate Lab featuring lashings of molten chocolate flavoured with locally grown cinnamon, coconut and cashews. But it’s not just Saint Lucia that goes


all out on the chocolate front. For added cocoa-mania, Caribtours recommends heading to Grenada in June for its Chocolate Fest, a nine-day extravaganza during which the island’s tree-to-bar chocolatiers offer workshops, beauty treatments and samples. Book it: Room-only rates at Anse Chastanet start at $410 a night, based on two sharing, between June 1 and October 31. ansechastanet.com


The workshop features lashings of molten chocolate flavoured with locally grown cinnamon, coconut and cashews


 CATCH YOUR OWN DINNER Clients like the sound of fishing for their food? At Beaches Turks & Caicos, guests can venture out on a ‘seaside scavenger hunt’ where they’re whizzed out on a boat to a secret spot to go snorkelling in search of conch. Once


they’ve got the goods, they’re taken to a deserted island where it’s cooked fresh, then served up on the beach for dinner (from $138). Meanwhile in Barbados, Colony Club


takes things up a notch with ‘Bait to Plate’, a complimentary fishing trip during which guests go fishing with a chef, who then fillets and prepares the catch back at the hotel, before dishing it up Bajan-style – think rice and peas, salad and lashings of fiery pepper sauce, with a backdrop of lulling ocean. Book it: Carrier offers a week’s bed and breakfast at Colony Club from £1,690 per person, based on two sharing a Pool/Garden View room. The price includes Virgin Atlantic flights from Gatwick on June 8 and return private transfers. carrier.co.uk


 FEAST ON A 12-COURSE MEAL ‘Farm-to-fork’ is the buzz-phrase of the moment, and over on St Kitts, luxury resort Belle Mont embraces it in every way. Some 90% of the food served is grown locally – either on its own 160-hectare organic farm or on surrounding estates. For those wanting to sample the best of it, there’s a weekly 12-course menu dishing up local delicacies, from papaya lamb stew to braised chicken roulade, on a 30-foot dining table with idyllic sunset views. Book it: Room-only rates for a luxury cottage start at $215 per night. bellemontfarm.com


 EMBARK ON A BAHAMIAN FOOD TOUR Heading to the Bahamas? Suggest


24 January 2019travelweekly.co.uk65


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