Strawberry Hill

Description:

• The most charming restaurant in the Jamaican capital involves a taxi ride up a meandering Blue Mountain road to the hotel of the same name. Dining is within an interconnected series of catwalks, verandas, and gazebo-style pavilions that were meticulously re-created along 19th-century patterns. The delectable menu items change with the season, but are likely to include such Jamaican dishes as grilled shrimp with fresh cilantro, fresh grilled fish with jerk mango and sweet-pepper salsa, or rotis stuffed with curried goat and fresh herbs. It's called "new Jamaican cuisine," and it is. Sunday brunches are enduringly popular, thanks partly to a lavish array of more than 40 dishes, each arranged in a separate gazebo-like pavilion like a temple to fine gastronomy.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Very Highly Recommended 2010