Heritage Court (The)

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• Inside the Fairmount Hamilton Princess, this is a safe choice for anything from a late breakfast to a light lunch, perhaps afternoon tea or a rib-sticking dinner. It gets rather festive in the evening, when live piano music is featured (4:30-6:30pm) and the skilled bartender cranks out rum punches. There's also an excellent selection of single-malt whiskies along with both wine and champagne sold by the glass.

  Most people come here for the food, though, which includes such specialties as charbroiled filet of beef with a sweet butter and chipotle glaze with arugula-stuffed potatoes. Perhaps you'll opt for the chef's daily pasta special, or else pan-roasted salmon with a tomato mushroom ragout with a brandy lobster and brandy reduction. Appetizers are tangy and tasty, especially the Bloody Mary prawn cocktail or the sweet chile and garlic-flavored pork ribs. Every day a different special is featured at lunch, perhaps tandoori rockfish with saffron Basmati rice and banana chutney. At lunch you can also enjoy Bermuda fish chowder, delicious club sandwiches, and even spiny lobster burgers. Whatever you believe to be true about this place will change, perhaps radically, if you venture inside between May and October on any Friday night between 5:30 and 10pm. Then, thanks to the hordes of singles who gather at the bar and on the nearby verandas of the hotel that contains it, there might not be room to sit.

• © Frommer's 2013