8 Best Restaurants in North Shore, Tortola

The sunset sea-and-mountain views are stunning at this poolside restaurant at the Heritage Inn, so arrive early for the predinner happy hour. Caribbean fusion best describes the fare, with an emphasis on steaks, seafood, and pasta, including shrimp swimming in ginger butter sauce and pork tenderloin marinated in rum. One of the better wine lists on the island and a selection of frozen drinks vie for attention at the bar.

This beachside bar and restaurant is owned and operated by island native Quito Rymer, a multitalented recording star, which explains why there's live music nearly every night of the week. The menu is Caribbean, with an emphasis on fresh fish—try the conch fritters or the jerk chicken. For a more casual meal there's pizza, burgers, and fish tacos. Picnic tables with beach umbrellas are the popular dining spot during the day, while the action moves into the high-roofed dining room at night, where you'll be serenaded by the sound of crashing waves in between the bands' sets.

Candles gleam and the background music is peaceful in this romantic restaurant inside a 17th-century sugar mill. Well-prepared selections on the à la carte menu, which changes nightly, include pasta and vegetarian entrées, but the best deal is the three-course prix-fixe menu. Conch fritters with mango chutney for dredging is a good starter. Favorite entrées include scallops in Champagne sauce, smoked duck breast, and a "risottera" menu of rice dishes. Save room for dessert, which include a locally grown banana flambéed in rum. 

Partly because it's right on the beach, this bi-level restaurant and bar is hopping day and night for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Chowder made with fresh conch is the specialty here, and the menu includes vegetarian dishes as well as grilled shrimp, steak, and tuna. There's live entertainment every night in winter.

This rustic beachside bar and restaurant is owned and operated by island native Quito Rymer, a multitalented recording star who plays and sings solo on Tuesday and Thursday and performs with his reggae band on Friday. The menu is Caribbean, with an emphasis on fresh fish, but you should try the conch fritters or the barbecue chicken.

The waves practically lap at your feet at this friendly beachfront restaurant on Tortola's North Shore, a perfect spot to stop for lunch on your around-the-island tour. The dinner menu emphasizes seafood—especially lobster and local fish—but you can also find pasta dishes, barbecued chicken, and New York strip steak. Finish off with a cup of Sebastian's coffee, spiked with home-brewed rum (a bottle, which you can only purchase here, makes a memorable take-home souvenir). Brunch is served on the weekends, and karaoke and bingo nights draw lively crowds.

Fish burgers and long-distance views are on the menu in the reggae-colored Stoutt’s Lookout, the domain of gregarious owner Prince Stoutt. Burgers and barbecue ribs round out the lunch menu, all best washed down with a punch made with local Callwood rum and pineapple, guava, and orange juice. Free Wi-Fi encourages you to linger in seats along a railing overlooking Cane Garden Bay.