9 of the best restaurants in Barbados

We’re going out on a limb here, but we’re fairly certain your Sunday brunches are rarely accompanied by a gospel choir.

This is why you need to join the masses that head to L’Azure for their famed Sunday Gospel Brunch Buffet and why this eatery HAD to make our best restaurants in Barbados list.

Yes, the Bajan specialities earn a well-deserved chef’s kiss, but it’s the heavenly sounds we’re really here for.

It doesn’t hurt that one of the island’s best beaches is just a short stroll away. Blissful, uplifting and unmissable.

Early risers and foodie treasure hunters, your time has come.

Bizarrely, you’ll not see much talk of this quaint little bakery online and you may not even find it on any other lists containing the ‘best restaurants in Barbados’ – but we know you aren’t going to look anywhere else, are you?!

Their baked goods are a well-kept secret, shared in hushed tones between carb connoisseurs as they share hastily scribbled maps on hotel chain napkins.

But you’ve no time to Poirot your way to the homely salt bread, lentil patties and lightest jam puffs known to man…

Head to Laynes Road in Bridgetown early in your stay – you’ll be back several times before your flight leaves.

Yes, there are cake bakeries in Barbados that are easier to find, but every pastry bought here will taste all the sweeter… when you eventually find them.

If you’re 10 days in and staring down the barrel of yet another round of the hotel buffet, calorie-laden help is at hand.

Bliss Cafe are masters of the freak shake and frankly, there’s not much they won’t sling onto a warm, sensuously decadent waffle.

And, brace yourselves, there’s even been the rarest of sightings in Barbados, a plant-based option or three.

If you are vegan, then make sure you add it to your list of the best restaurants in Barbados to check out.

Familiar breakfast flatbreads, omelettes and coffees mingle on the menu with Bajan flavours and jerk chicken. It shouldn’t work, but it does.

Oistin’s Friday Fish Fry takes top billing on several ‘best restaurants in Barbados’ lists.

Yes, it’s a fun night which we’ll talk more about later, but head there and you’ll spot a steady stream of traffic swerving the fish fry and heading straight for Granny’s instead.

For three decades Granny Walcott’s recipes have been the talk of Barbados.

Her legacy is the restaurant she created to provide local fishermen with home-cooked favourites.

Order the chicken necks, gizzards & livers. A local delicacy.

This is a dish that’s best drenched in the seriously punchy Bajan hot pepper sauce.

Serving rustic Bajan dishes is Brown Sugar’s bread and butter and they’ve honed the national dish to perfection.

This is one (of many!) good reasons why it’s made the Orbzii best restaurants in Barbados list.

Poached flying fish roll-ups sit on a simple, lightly seasoned, bed of smooth cornmeal and okra.

A homage to Bajan cooking, it comes in a starter size serving leaving plenty of room to tackle the rest of the menu.

But at Brown Sugar, the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet really draws in the crowds.

Grab a seat on the fern-filled patio and listen while the chirping resident tree frogs do battle with the lively local chatter.

On Fridays, the party pitches up at one of the best restaurants in Barbados – Oistins Friday Night Fish Fry.

Flames flicker against succulent fish cuts at the street food stalls, tourists and islanders mingle and the drinking, dominoes and dining carry on deep into the night.

Definitely not among the island’s best-kept secrets, but it IS an experience. Iconic. Basic. And… chaotic.

Possibly the recipe for your best night on the island.