2 Best Restaurants in Castries, Saint Lucia

A 140-year-old, pretty-in-pink French Colonial plantation house is the setting for authentic French Creole cuisine—the inspiration of local artist Michelle Elliott, whose ceramics and paintings are displayed for sale in a cozy room set up as a gift shop. Diners enjoy grilled fish, steak, rack of lamb, jumbo shrimp, or chicken breast matched with interesting homemade sauces and accompanied by steamed rice, fried plantains, sautéed vegetables, breadfruit/sweet potato balls, local peas, and christophene (chayote) gratin. Alternatively, you can have a main-course salad or vegetarian dish. You'll really feel that you've been carried back to the 19th century. The three-story house, a labyrinth of rooms filled with antiques, is wrapped in a forest of tropical plants and trees. The service is friendly, the food is good and the atmosphere is, well, historic.

Prearrange your taxi pickup, as taxis are really hard to find in this area.

Popular since it opened in 1968, this tiny waterfront restaurant overlooks pretty Vigie Cove. Come for a light lunch of fresh local fish or enjoy an exquisite French-inspired dinner under the stars. Heartier eaters may prefer duck, lamb, beef, or chicken laced with peppercorns, red wine, mushroom, or Roquefort sauce. Tables are set with the owner's colorful handmade ceramics, and you sit amongst old stone pillars with the water lapping at your feet.