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Caffe Mia - Simple Italian
food, Traditional Sunday Roast, Afternoon Teas
Hibiscus Drive, Hampden Lowlands. 683 6909
Wed/Thur 3-10pm
Fri/Sat10-10pm
Sun 1-10pm
Ei SS CC RR
Dillon’s
Seafood Restaurant
Milford Rd. Crown Point.
639 8765
D $$ CC RR
El
Pescador - Seafood Buccoo Point - 631 1266 or 370
5022
Daily from 7.30 am Wednesday Nite Fish BBQ 7 pm
Ei/Ta CC RR B$ L$$ D$$$
Fish
Pot Pleasant Prospect, Grafton. 635 1728
Mon-Sat
L D Ei $$ CC RR
J
and E Restaurant
Moon Over Water Bar.
794 1805/373 1383
Mon-Sat 11am-11pm
L D Ei Ta $
Kariwak
Village - International/Caribbean
Store Bay Local Rd -
639 8442 Daily
RR CC Ei only B&L $$ D $$$
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La
Tartaruga Italian Restaurant Includes a Wine Store
Bucco Bay. 639 0940 / 715 5465
D Ei $$ CC RR
Salsa
Kitchen - Tapas
#8 Pump Mill Rd. Scarborough
639 1522 -
From 6pm Tues - Sun
D RR CC $$
Shore
Things - Healthy Indulgent food and drink on a
seaside verandah
Arts and crafts on sale
Milford Rd. Lambeau. 635 1072
Mon-Fri 11-6pm Lunch and tea
Ei $ CC
Sun
Spree Restaurant
Store Bay Local Road. 631 5195
Mon-Sun 8am-10pm
B L D Ei $$ CC RR
The
Back Yard Café
Art Café Milford Rd. Crown Pt.
639 7264 Mon - Fri 12 noon - 8 pm
L D CC $
The
Pasta Gallery & Bar
Italian Pigeon Point Rd - 782 8200
Mon & Tues 11am to 2.30pm
Thur & Fri 10.30am to 2.30pm & 6.30pm to 10pm/Sat 6.30pm to
10pm
Ei/Ta L D $$
Trinbago
Curry House,
Opp Café Coco, Crown Pt. 325 5929/350 7817
Mon to Sat
L D Ei/Ta $
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LEGEND:
B-Breakfast L-Lunch D-Dinner CC-Credit Cards accepted RR-Reservations
Recommended Ei – Eat in Ta – Take away
$-Less than $10 US $$-Between $10-$20 US $$$- Over $20 US
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Food
and culture are closely linked. Tobago being a slave society,
the food available and the cooking method was controlled,
now known as ‘Heritage’ food.
A big iron pot was used for cooking, sitting on three stones
with the fire being fed with wood through the gaps in the
stones. Still the method used when cooking for the many
harvest festivals held on the island, outside cooking with
the smoke adding a definite flavour to the food. Sending
a slave out to sea to fish? Never! So you import preserved
fish from the England. Giving us ‘salt cod’ or ‘buljol’
and ‘smoke herring’ and these are the No.1 breakfast food
for Tobagonians available in Scarborough Market.
Root vegetables, sweet potato, yam, cassava, (known as ground
provision) along with plantain and green bananas, grown
by the slaves and now local farmers are the mainstay of
the Tobago diet, along with stewed meat, fish and chicken
(‘common fowl’ or ‘yardie’) Add to this boiled dumplings,
known as ‘cow tongue’ made from flour and water.
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Photos by Oswin Brown & Mark
Puddy
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The
meat, whatever was available, was, and is, cooked in oil in
which sugar has been burnt to give the strong brown colour
and flavour so typical of Tobago food. Coconut milk made from
the dried flesh, first grated, blended with water and then
strained is the liquid used for stewing the meat. Tobago’s
most popular delicacy, ‘souse’, boiled pigs trotters soaked
in lime juice, pepper sauce and cucumber, available outside
any supermarket every Friday evening, was created from what
the ‘master’ considered food beneath his dignity to eat! Tobago’s
signature dish is ‘Curry Cr!b and Dumpling’, land crabs burrowing
at the edge of the beach, cooked in a delicious curry sauce,
try Store Bay food stalls! Tobago food is available at all
Heritage food festival or from the many local restaurants
scattered around the island. Or you can buy Harriet’s Tobago
Cookery Book from Nigel R Khan’s, Booksellers, in Lowlands
Mall and try it yourself!
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The history
of soup is probably as old as the history of cooking. The
act of combining various ingredients in a large pot to create
a nutritious, filling, easily digested and simple to make
food. This type of preparation made it the perfect choice
for both sedentary and traveling cultures, rich and poor,
healthy people and invalids. Soup has evolved according to
local in-gredients and tastes. Rich, hearty and delicious
soups are a major part of Creole cooking - and each island
has its own unique dishes. Tasting soup here on Tobago is
like tasting a piece of the island's heritage, where the flavours
can be traced back hundreds of years.
In Trinidad
and Tobago, soup was the traditional Saturday lunch, where
everything in the ice box was brought together to make a nutritent
rich meal for families. It meant the ice box was empty, ready
to restock at the market on a Sunday. It is still a firm favourite
today both with locals and visitors. Tobago has developed
its own special soups. Chief among these are calla-lo,corn,
pigtail, cow heel and fish broth.
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For
the best soup on Tobago made with only the freshest and
finest TnT ingredients and cooked how yuh want visit, De
Boss Ah Soup at Stumpy's Compound in Canaan, Tobago or if
in Trinidad at 48 Tragarete Road, Port of Spain - there
are many imitators out there but re-member if its not de
Boss is not de Bess.
Soup
Every Day...the way the locals love 'em...
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Marcia's
Diner
Authentic
Tobago Cuisine
Marcia's
mother Carmen Potts was the major influence in her culinary
career, passing down her passion for cooking and whilst still
a girl, Marcia was continuously trying out little delights
such as coconut
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tarts, coconut ices and the local Mauby
Bark drink.
Instinctively
Marcia knew that her destiny was to open her own Restaurant
and at the youthful age of 24 she established Marcia's Diner.
For the past 28 years and counting it has been located on
Store Bay Local Road in Bon Accord.
Since
its inception in 1983, Marcia has stayed true to her calling,
expressing her natural God given talents by creating exceptionally
well balanced, aesthetically-pleasing and enticing local cuisine.
Some of her authentic dishes are Sunday Style Stewed Chicken,
Lobster Tobago Style, Cedros Jumbo Shrimp and Tobago's Crab
& Dumplings.
Marcia's is a family business and over the years Marcia has
extended her trade to include catering for family occasions
like Weddings and Anniversaries as well as at special events
for some of Tobago's large corporate businesses and governmental
departments.
However,
let us whet your appetite with one of Marcia's specialities:
- her famous Cassava Pudding, made from the grated root vegetable
and baked with dried fruit and spices, is a favourite which
brings back many visitors who all say that if you are looking
for the BEST local cuisine in Tobago, Marcia's Diner is the
place ………………….
But
don't just take our word for it, come visit and dine with
us and don't forget to try our famous Cassava Pudding for
dessert. Enjoy!!
Reservations
Tel: 639 0359
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