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A world of restaurants
DINING & ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE - JAN 2003
A world of restaurants
Fast food to haute cuisine
Nassau is the ideal place to learn the sometimes subtle, sometimes awesome, difference between eating and dining. This tiny island is chock-a-block with excellent restaurants.
You'll find wonderful meals right in your hotel, but there's good reason to venture out, whether you want to dine or simply eat.
While Bahamian fare is always a favourite with visitors, there are many ethnic restaurants on the island. You'll find Indian, Belgian, Filipino, Thai, Chinese, Mexican, Greek, Italian, French, American, British, Japanese and Jamaican.
But how to decide?
If you just want to eat, you can find franchise fast food outlets ranging from McDonald?s, KFC, Subway and Wendy's to pizza parlours such as Domino's and Pizza Hut. And there are hundreds of take-away shacks specializing in traditional Bahamian fare everywhere.
A lot of these shacks sprung up willy-nilly on Arawak Cay starting in the 1960s, but over the past 10 years they have evolved into trendy and colourful mini-restaurants. Vendors agree that the improved accommodations are better and more attractive to locals and visitors as well. (See Food and culture, pg 38)
The island is peppered with other moderately priced restaurants offering fare somewhere between just eating and ultra-elegant dining.
Most Nassau restaurants fall into this category. Dining options range from burgers on a deck to moderately priced Oriental and Bahamian dishes. You'll find plenty of high quality seafood in this middle category, as well as fantastic pasta, steaks, lamb, chicken and even sushi.
Memorable dining
Further up the elegance and/or price scale are a group of restaurants with top-class food and service - the kind you remember long after your dining experience is over.
Lobster (or crawfish, as Bahamian lobster is called) is a popular meal at upscale restaurants, as well as at many of the moderately priced ones. But don?t limit yourself. Fresh Bahamian grouper, snapper, hogfish, dolphin (mahi-mahi), tuna and wahoo are specialities here.
Although seafood is the natural entree of choice in a nation surrounded by 100,000 square miles of ocean, land-based options are plentiful and delicious.
You'll find herb-crusted rack of lamb, lamb shanks, pepper steak au Paris, filet mignon, chateaubriand, chicken prepared in various ways, duck a l'orange, Peking duck, pork chops, pork tenderloin, pork medallions... the list goes on.
Whether you choose to eat or dine, the quality and variety of restaurants on New Providence and Paradise Island are sure to impress you.
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