Eat in Negril
Begin with a seaside meal at home, then explore the West End: small Jamaican kitchens, coffee and dessert, neighborhood bars, and serious sunset dinners.
A short walk from the gate
Start with a seaside meal at home, then everything else inside a twenty minute walk: small Jamaican kitchens, coffee and dessert, jerk off the grill, and neighborhood bars, all on the same stretch of road.
Best for · arrival night and swim days
Right at home
Fresh Jamaican cooking with the Caribbean right below you: breakfast and lunch daily in season, and dinner cooked to order when you ask by 2pm.
Pro tip: Arrival day, after a long excursion, dinner while watching a sunset, or any evening you would stay in.
Best for · an informal cliffside meal
5 min walk
A longstanding restaurant and bar on the cliffs: Jamaican breakfasts, grill food, drinks, sea views, and the occasional music night.
Best for · dominoes and a cold Red Stripe
5 min walk
Byron's true neighborhood bar: drinks, conversation, dominoes, live music some nights, and the West End as locals live it. Food appears some days, but the bar is the point.
Best for · a short walk up the road
5 min walk
A West End neighbor close enough to reach on foot, with the cliffs and the sea on the way there.
Best for · Jamaican breakfast and casual plates
6 min walk
A small local spot for Jamaican breakfast, lunch, and dinner, back in action and cooking again after a quiet stretch.
Best for · a small family-run meal
6 min walk
A newer family-owned spot with a short menu and honest home cooking.
Best for · a personal, arranged dinner
9 min walk
Sandra is possibly the best cook on the West End, with regulars who have come back for years. Her tasty meals are ordered ahead for dinner at her little seaside spot, eaten in or taken out.
Best for · pizza, pasta, and delivery nights
9 min walk
Italian-Jamaican fusion on the cliffs of West End Road, run by a New York chef: stone-fired thin-crust pizza and pastas like jerk chicken alfredo, with takeout, delivery to the resort, and free pickup for dining in. The answer to the group's inevitable pizza night.
Best for · coffee, breakfast, and dessert
9 min walk
Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, cakes, ice cream, waffles, milkshakes, breakfast and brunch, with waterside seating. The morning stop and the afternoon treat in one place.
Best for · homestyle Jamaican comfort food
9 min walk
A longstanding West End name for laid-back, homestyle Jamaican plates, with a full bar and takeout.
Best for · seafood plus familiar options
10 min walk
Jamaican and international dishes side by side: seafood, breakfast plates, lunch, dinner, and desserts. A broad menu when your group wants different things.
Best for · a cheap plate at any hour
10 min walk
A West End institution: a 24 hour restaurant and music bar cooking jerk chicken, curry goat, fried fish and fritters at local prices, with a porch to sit on and watch the road go by.
Best for · famous fried chicken
10 min walk
A West End institution with a country-and-western identity you will not find anywhere else on the island. Connie is a legend, and so was her mom before her.
Best for · a bar that keeps its own hours
11 min walk
A small bar and kitchen on West End Road, listed as open around the clock, and one of the closest places to the gate.
Best for · jerk chicken at a local hangout
11 min walk
A small bar and jerk grill on the West End road with a local hangout feel, fair prices and an easy, unhurried atmosphere. The jerk chicken is the thing to order.
Best for · seafood and an easygoing bar
13 min walk
Jamaican cooking, seafood, drinks, and live music every week near Mary's Bay, with roadside and waterside corners. As local as an evening gets.
Pro tip: Fresh seafood, chicken tenders, and plenty in between, with live music every week. The hurricane hit Quality's hard and he was rebuilding the same week, which tells you most of what you need to know about the place.
Directions: GoogleApple Maps listing for Quality's Sea Breeze, West End Road, Negril, Jamaica
Best for · a swim, a plate, and music on the sand
14 min walk
A longstanding waterside bar-and-grill where the sandy bay meets the cliff coast: grilled fish, drinks, music, and a small beach you can swim and snorkel off.
Best for · tacos on the West End
15 min walk
A small taco kitchen on One Love Drive with a name nobody forgets and a short menu to match, a good break when the group has had its fill of Jamaican plates.
Best for · jerk chicken and lobster
16 min walk3 min drive
Negril's famous jerk stop on the cliffs: chicken and lobster straight off the smoky grill, with sunset tables and a bonfire feel in the evenings. Everything is cooked to order, so come unhurried.
Best for · Chinese food on the West End
18 min walk3 min drive
The West End Chinese kitchen: a full Chinese menu on a road of Jamaican ones, for dine-in, pickup or delivery, with the doors open to nine.
Best for · a roadside bar over the sea
19 min walk3 min drive
Catherine's small, colorful roadside bar on One Love Drive, with a patio looking straight out over the sea: homemade pickles, Bloody Caesars, and pizza from the kitchen.
Best for · grill food and music nights
19 min walk3 min drive
Jamaican grill plates, cold drinks, and music nights on the West End.
Best for · fresh juice and home baking, delivered
They come to you
No sugar added juices, beet root and ginger, pineapple and ginger, soursop and lime, watermelon, turmeric and ginger among them, alongside banana bread, sweet potato pudding, coconut toto, brownies and peanut butter cookies. All natural, no preservatives, with seasonal juices changing weekly.
Pro tip: Order by WhatsApp and it comes to you, or ask the front desk to place it. Message Lilah on WhatsApp
Best for · anything, fetched
They come to you
Not a kitchen but Negril's runner service, collecting orders since 2018 from restaurants all over town, including the ones with no driver of their own, plus groceries, drinks, and any likkle ting else.
Pro tip: Message them on Facebook to place an order. Any Likkle Ting U Need on Facebook
A long walk or a short drive
Keep going along the cliff road for jerk, pizza, gardens, and Negril's big sunset tables. Reserve ahead for the famous ones, and let us arrange the ride.
Best for · jerk and rum in a social setting
20 min walk3 min drive
Jamaican jerk and street-food-inspired plates in a casual rum-bar format, with the cliffs below and a lively crowd around you.
Best for · the polished special occasion
25 min walk3 min drive
A refined cliffside dining room with Jamaican and Caribbean influences: the dressed-up dinner of the West End when the occasion calls for it.
Best for · the nearest pizza
25 min walk3 min drive
Fresh pizza with locally sourced toppings from the Sunshine Village food court, right on West End Road. The closest pie to the resort.
Best for · jerk from the island's best known name
25 min walk3 min drive
The Negril branch of Jamaica's most famous jerk name, in the Sunshine Village plaza on West End Road: pork and chicken off the pimento wood with festival alongside.
Best for · fried chicken that sells out
25 min walk3 min drive
The Jamaican fried chicken chain, in the Sunshine Village food court alongside Scotchies, and busy enough that it sells out before the evening does.
Best for · cocktails and sunset on the rocks
26 min walk4 min drive
A women-owned cliffside kitchen and bar on the West End road, known for its sunset, its cocktails, and a kitchen that runs to midnight.
Best for · a lighter lunch
28 min walk4 min drive
A small deli in the Sunshine Village complex on West End Road, doing sandwiches and lighter, healthier plates than this road usually offers. Takeout from eleven.
Best for · home cooking with a following
30 min walk4 min drive
A West End restaurant and bar with one of the highest ratings on this road, serving Jamaican plates until ten.
Best for · ice cream, including dairy free
30 min walk4 min drive
A small ice cream counter tucked inside the kiddies park at Sunshine Village, scooping non-dairy flavors like coconut vanilla alongside the usual ones.
Best for · pot roast worth planning for
5 min drive
A small West End cafe cooking to order, with lobster on the menu alongside the house plates.
Best for · jerk chicken and festival
5 min drive
A laid-back West End bar and kitchen with some of the best jerk chicken and festival you can find, and exactly the easy mood the name promises.
Best for · a special dinner on the cliffs
5 min drive
The restaurant at Tensing Pen, a small cliff hotel up the West End road, known for its rope bridge over the water and quiet coves below the tables.
Best for · oxtail and Jamaican plates
5 min drive
A well rated West End kitchen built on Jamaican plates, oxtail first among them, open to ten for dine-in, takeout or delivery.
Best for · a scenic special dinner
5 min drive
Cliff-front dining with a serious sunset. One of the West End's prettiest tables for a date night or a celebration.
Best for · sunset dinner near Rick's
6 min drive
A cliffside pub and restaurant along the West End road near Rick's: dinner and drinks with the sea straight ahead and the sunset over it.
Best for · dinner with a spectacle
6 min drive
Food and drinks wrapped in Negril's most famous sunset scene: music, crowds, and cliff divers. Come for the energy; stay for the horizon.
Best for · breakfast in a garden
6 min drive
A cafe in the gardens at Casa Aster in the deep West End, quiet enough that guests write about the peace as much as the food.
Best for · lobster on the West End
9 min drive
A West End kitchen with a real reputation for lobster, jerk and grilled both, with curry goat alongside, and it runs later than most of the road.
Best for · a quiet sunset off the rocks
9 min drive
A small cliff bar deep in the West End: hammocks, a ladder into the sea, cliff jumping off the rocks, and drinks rather than a full kitchen.
Best for · a polished lunch or dinner
9 min drive
The restaurant at The Cliff hotel, a short ride up the road: refined cliffside dining with the sea below, and one of the West End's better tables for a long lunch as well as dinner.
Best for · garden dining
10 min drive
A garden restaurant in the deep West End: fresh Jamaican cooking, juices, and big breakfasts served at tables tucked under the trees, and always cooking. One of the most peaceful meals in Negril.
Best for · a late plate at the far end
10 min drive
A small Jamaican bar and grill at the far end of the West End road, cheap and open to half eleven.
The roundabout end
Where the West End road meets the beach road: patty shops, neighborhood bars, and the Jamaican kitchens Negril itself uses. A few minutes' drive, and cheaper than either coast.
Best for · a late plate in town
30 min walk4 min drive
A busy Jamaican kitchen and bar in town, cheap and open to midnight, and one of the best known names on this list.
Best for · Devon House ice cream and cake
5 min drive
The Negril home of Devon House ice cream, Jamaica's best known scoop, with cakes and baked goods alongside. In town by the roundabout, open to ten.
Best for · patties at local prices
5 min drive
A patty shop and café in town by the roundabout: beef, chicken and cheese patties with a flaky crust, at local prices, with the doors open from seven in the morning.
Best for · patties and coco bread
5 min drive
The bakery on Negril Square and the town's patty counter: beef and veg patties, coco bread to split them into, hardo bread and banana bread, all at local prices from nine.
Best for · a cold Red Stripe at local prices
8 min drive
A small neighborhood bar on Archer Road in town, cheap, friendly, and open to nine.
Best for · a local bar, open late
8 min drive
A long standing local bar in town at local prices, running to eleven, with takeout and delivery.
Best for · a Negril institution
8 min drive
A Jamaican restaurant on White Hall Road that Negril has been eating at for years: curry, oxtail and fish done properly, open to ten.
Best for · a jerk centre inside a hardware store
9 min drive
Known around Negril as the hardware store, but there is a restaurant and a jerk centre on the same site, and it keeps hours nothing else in town does. Guests report the hardware counter open as late as one in the morning.
Seven Mile side
The sandy side of Negril is a short drive away: roadside jerk, beach bars, and hotel kitchens along Seven Mile Beach and the beach road.
Best for · dinner on the sand at sunset
6 min drive
The beachfront restaurant at Travellers Beach Resort: Jamaican cooking, coconut shrimp, and the sunset straight off the sand, with dinner service from six.
Best for · patties and jerk off the grill
6 min drive
Dru's roadside bar and grill on the beach road, known for his patties, a lobster one among them, jerk chicken, and a house ginger jerk sauce people come back for.
Best for · coffee and a cone on the beach road
8 min drive
A small coffee shop on the beach road with cones alongside the coffee, open from seven in the morning and rated as highly as anywhere in Negril.
Best for · a kitchen that never closes
8 min drive
A restaurant and bar on the beach road listed as open around the clock, which makes it the answer to a very late or very early hunger.
Best for · a beachfront table on Seven Mile
8 min drive
The restaurant at Kuyaba on Seven Mile Beach, a longstanding beachfront kitchen with tables near the sand and a bar beside them.
Best for · live reggae on the sand
8 min drive
A beach bar and stage on Seven Mile long associated with live reggae nights and a crowd that stays late.
Best for · pizza and pasta, very late
8 min drive
A long running Italian kitchen on the beach road, pizza and pasta with a full bar, and the doors open to two in the morning.
Best for · a Jamaican breakfast
8 min drive
A small beach road kitchen where the Jamaican breakfast is the thing people order, at local prices, from nine.
Best for · a casual bar by the sand
8 min drive
A small beachfront hotel on Seven Mile with a casual bar and kitchen open to the beach.
Best for · early evening music
8 min drive
A beach road bar at local prices, known for Jamaican music in the early evening, with the shutters down by nine.
Best for · lobster and jerk chicken
8 min drive
A seafood and grill house on the beach road that guests come back to for the lobster and the jerk chicken, open to ten.
Best for · a cheap plate, open late
9 min drive
Part Jamaican kitchen, part mini mart on the beach road: local prices, generous plates, and the doors open to eleven.
Best for · live music on the beach
9 min drive
A beach bar and kitchen on Seven Mile with a stage in the sand, long known for its live music nights.
Best for · Jamaican home cooking
9 min drive
A well liked Jamaican kitchen on the beach road at local prices, cooking the plates you came to Jamaica for, open to nine.
Best for · the biggest plate for the money
9 min drive
A Jamaican kitchen on the beach road that guests write about for the portion sizes as much as the cooking, at local prices, open to ten.
Best for · vegan and ital cooking
9 min drive
A vegan kitchen on the beach road with a long following, cooking ital plates and fresh drinks, open to eight.
Best for · jerk off the drum
9 min drive
A women-owned Jamaican restaurant and jerk hut on the beach road, cooking to half eight in the evening.
Best for · a big menu and a long night
9 min drive
A busy bar and grill on the beach road with one of the longest menus and one of the biggest followings in Negril, open to half eleven.
Best for · a quiet drink on the sand
9 min drive
A small, well liked beach bar on Seven Mile at local prices, open to ten.
Best for · a drink and a grill by the water
10 min drive
A bar and grill on the beach road built around a boat, with a proper kitchen behind it, closing at eight.
Best for · a considered dinner on the beach
10 min drive
The restaurant at Charela Inn on Seven Mile Beach, a long standing family-run hotel with a kitchen that takes its dinners seriously.
Best for · jerk, open late
10 min drive
A roadside jerk spot on the beach road: smoky jerk chicken, curry goat, and oxtail at local prices, with reggae playing and the grill running until 11pm.
Best for · an easy beachfront lunch
10 min drive
The restaurant at Coco La Palm on Seven Mile Beach, with tables set back from the sand and the water in front of you.
Best for · a drink on the quieter sand
10 min drive
A beach bar and kitchen on Norman Manley Boulevard, along the calmer stretch of Seven Mile Beach.
Best for · a plate at local prices
10 min drive
A Jamaican kitchen at the far end of the beach road, cheap and steady, open to nine.
Best for · a long menu, open late
11 min drive
A big-menu restaurant at The Boardwalk Shopping Village on the beach road: sushi, wings, loaded fries, and Jamaican plates, with the kitchen running to 11pm.
Best for · a cold treat after lunch
11 min drive
A Jamaican ice pop shop at The Boardwalk on the beach road: fresh fruit pops, coffee and hazelnut among them, and one of the highest rated little stops in Negril.
Best for · beachfront tables
11 min drive
The restaurant at Negril Treehouse Resort on Seven Mile Beach: beachfront seating and a menu that covers Jamaican and familiar plates.
Best for · Jamaican cooking with a scene
11 min drive
The Negril outpost of Miss Lily's, on Seven Mile Beach: Jamaican plates, cocktails, and music, served a few steps from the sand.
Best for · lobster and a proper seafood dinner
13 min drive
A surf and turf kitchen on the beach road built around grilled lobster, with pumpkin soup and coconut shrimp alongside. The bigger spend on this list.
Best for · a meal worth the drive
20 min drive
A restaurant out at Bloody Bay, past the length of Seven Mile, with a following that makes the drive part of the plan. Open to eight.
Stocking up
For the mornings you would rather make your own coffee, the cooler that needs filling before a boat day, or the thing you left at home. Negril's main groceries are all a short ride up the road, and two of them are walkable.
Best for · the five minute top-up
5 min walk
A well stocked convenience store five minutes up the road and open around the clock: snacks, drinks, ice, aloe, and the charger you did not think to pack. Not a supermarket, but the only shop on this list you can walk to and carry a bag home from.
Best for · the grocery locals name by its colour
26 min walk4 min drive
The big West End grocery everyone calls the green store: imported goods beside the local ones, fresh fruit, a currency exchange inside, and the latest closing hour of the three at ten.
Best for · the closest full grocery
28 min walk4 min drive
A supermarket in the Sunshine Village complex on West End Road, the nearest proper grocery to the resort, with a fresh fruit and vegetable section guests rate highly. Open to eight.
Best for · a top-up shop and a currency exchange
31 min walk4 min drive
A smaller grocery in town, closer to a minimarket than a supermarket, with fair prices, a sensible range, and a currency exchange on the spot. Open to half eight.
Best for · the big shop
5 min drive
The large grocery in Plaza de Negril in town, and the one most people mean when they say they are doing a shop: a wide selection at fair prices, open to half eight.
Best for · fruit and vegetables from the growers
5 min drive
The town's fruit and vegetable market, where the stalls sell whatever is in season straight from the farmers who grew it. Open from eight.
Best for · a familiar supermarket aisle
11 min drive
The Negril branch of the Jamaican supermarket chain, now at The Boardwalk on the beach road rather than its old West End shop: fresh produce, a liquor aisle, and the full supermarket layout. Open to eight.
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