Your Cayman Insider’s Dining Guide
Your restaurant choices and places to eat in the Cayman Islands are as diverse as your cravings. Looking for the best waterfront dining? The best sunset views? The freshest seafood or the best in local food? Or perhaps a plate of locally caught fresh lobster? Grand Cayman has hundreds of places spanning every district. From West Bay to George Town, from Seven Mile Beach to South Sound, from Bodden Town to East End and Rum Point to Cayman Kai, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
The island’s restaurants feature cuisines from around the world including Italian, Mexican, European, and American. From the modern to the traditional it’s little wonder the Cayman Islands are named the culinary capital of the Caribbean. Explore this section to find the restaurants—and meals—of your dreams.
On The Water
Luca
Italian CUISINE on Seven Mile Beach
Legendary waterfront dining
From its romantic waterfront setting, this legendary Restaurant plays host to Cayman’s jet set – and remains as classy and exceptional as ever with its sweeping ocean views from almost every seat in the beautiful designed dining room and deck.
Luxurious seafood-centric fare served by accommodating staff helps secure its special-occasion status, and most agree it might be as close to heaven as you’ll get. Best at sunsets and when local spiny lobster is in season.
Grand Old House
Cayman’s Historic Waterfront Restaurant
An enduring symbol of good taste.
This classic destination isn’t just one of the oldest restaurants in Cayman, it’s also located in one of the oldest buildings too, formerly a Caribbean Great House in the 1900s. Today, the long wooden bar and linen-topped tables are always full.
The restaurant looks largely the same as it did when it was opened over 50 years ago. Its ocean front veranda offers impeccable charm. Grand Old House is uniquely Caymanian, and an enduring symbol of good taste. Don’t miss the private dining rooms.
Agua
Restaurant & Lounge – Camana Bay
Sublime seafood & service
Irresistible ceviches, including their famous tuna tartare and fresh catch, are guaranteed to blow your mind. Locals flock to this hip seafood restaurant in Camana Bay. The five star bar, just far enough away from the main dining room offers classic and contemporary drinks.
Lovely service, a comprehensive wine list, and happy-hour creations to die for enhance the oceanic goodness of one of Cayman’s best restaurants. Also available for private hire, events and small wedding receptions. Visit www.agua.ky or email info@agua.ky
The Wharf
Sea-foodies are never disappointed by this longstanding waterfront locale. With a creative menu using the freshest catch, dishes are prepared using locally sourced ingredients where possible. An eclectic dining room and expansive deck is manned by courteous, professional servers pouring wonderful drinks and selections from the impressive wine cellar.
As the sun dips below the horizon, the tarpon come out, and the evening entertainment dials-up for a magical Caribbean night under the stars. Ports of Call bar offers happy hour from 4pm – 6:30pm 7 days a week – fantastic cocktails and oceanside bar, need we say more?
Beach Bars
The Coconut Club
COCKTAILS ON SEVEN MILE BEACH
COCKTAIL COUTURE
It’s all very much still under wraps, but peak behind the recently planted foliage in front of the Beach Suites Boutique Hotel on West Bay Road Grand Cayman and you might just catch a glimpse of the mixologists strutting their stuff as they curate the highly anticipated cocktail list for this Caribbean beach bar come cocktail lounge on the shores of Seven Mile Beach.
Hailing from the creators of Tillie’s, The Coconut Club promises bar bites and aperitifs to make even the hippest millennials quiver in their Converse.
Tillie’s
A caribbean culinary voyage at the beach suites
tastefully done
Dubbed as a ‘culinary voyage through the Greater Antilles’, the aptly named ‘Tillie’s’ promises to deliver a largely Caribbean based menu, blended with American favourites – after all this is where the majority of the boutique Beach Suites Hotel clientele will hail from.
Featuring 30 Day Dry Aged Rib eye, Classic Surf n Turf, Whole Grilled Market Fish, and Grilled Heritage Chicken, the menu sounds as good as the restaurant looks. Draped in classic yellow and white, and set against the backdrop of Seven Mile blue, this new addition to Cayman’s restaurant scene is sure to get great reviews inside and out.
Sunset House
Cayman’s Favourite Dive Bar
Come for sunset. stay after dark.
This well polished dive bar draws a local crowd who mingle with vacationers from the adjacent dive resort. Seek shade at the large scale tiki bar, or grab a waterfront spot and a cold beer to watch the sun go down.
Boasting some of the finest Indian cuisine on island thanks to the band of highly skilled Malaysian and Indian chefs, Sunset house is the perfect backdrop to your Cayman dreams. Come for sunset and stay after dark to watch the lights of night divers as they return to shore.
Grape Tree Cafe
Local food on the beach in Bodden Town
Fresh fish is always catch of the day
Fresh fish is the always the catch of the day at this Bodden Town beach-side fish fry, which lives by the motto food is love. Diners line up for fried snapper, mahi, and barracuda which can be enjoyed as a platter or with ‘rice n peas’.
The stand has been around for years, one bite and you’ll understand why it’s sure to be a fixture for years to come.
