Spent 6/21-6/30 on Grenada. I will review restaurants in no particular order.
Bananas- Had not planned on dining here as I pulled up the menu here at home before trip and looked like typical US rest. menu. I had also heard it was more of a party spot/bar. Decided to give it a try. We rec'd the best service & food here out of all the rests. we ate at. Excellent crab cakes, pumpkin soup, blackenend mahi-mahi, grilled mahi-mahi in spicy seasoning and jerk chicken with mango chutney. Only negative, small baked potatoes about the size of a peach, but the waitress brought out another. My 12 year old lived off of shrimp, fries and baked potatoes when we could find them. Cheesecake, so-so more like the consistency of key lime pie. Wished we had tried this earlier in our trip, we would have returned. Reasonably priced/excellent service.
Tropicana- service started out to impress immediately being seated and water glasses filled, chairs pulled out, napkins put on laps-soon fizzled. Very long time for appetizers to arrive and even longer for dinner w/ little attention to refill beers. I was ready to fall asleep. Crab back so-so, a bit too fishy. Broiled swordfish and grilled shrimp not much flavor. Grilled pork chops and rum punch very good. Curried lambi, good, but didn't taste or look like a curried dish. A local man kept calling out from behind a wall in back of our table begging for US money to buy some food. Reasonably priced/overall service not so good.
Aquarium-called in advance to reserve table at noon for the Sunday BBQ. Arrived at 11 and ordered at about 1pm. They said they opened at 10, but didn't seem to be ready for our noon reservations. Service was not the best. Every thing ala carte, but reasonably priced. Vegetable kabob-delicious, gr. shrimp and chicken-good, gr. tuna-a bit rarer than I'd prefer. At about 4pm I thought I'd order some fries to hold my daughter over until our late dinner. Over an hour and no sign of the 2 orders of fries, finally asked for check and they mentioned the fries, told them they never came, said they'd check kitchen, told them not to worry about it-too late. This place was very quiet when we first arrived, but got busier-live band played for about 2 hours, wished they played longer. The location and setting beautiful-nice for photos. Can rent beach chairs-$10EC all day for one. There were beach vendors here, which I was not happy about, but they were not as annoying as our Grand Anse experience.Nutmeg-we did not dine here during our stay, but our friends who are still there tried to dine there 6/30 night. Their email states "The Nutmeg is a disaster. They are out of everything. Took an hour and a half to get appetizers, we left and went to LaChateau". So, I guess I didn't miss anything.
Coyaba Beach Resort-There is a dress code for trousers in the dining room after 7pm, which we never bring trousers on vacation. The dinner menu looked nice, but very expensive. We did eat lunch at the pool bar restaurant and lunch/breakfast room service, which was good-average. Service great. They do have an excellent blueberry cheesecake and triple decker club with hard boiled eggs (unusual, but very good) and outstanding plantain chips which I wish I had now. Only negative, the rum punch and pina colada entirely too strong. Felt like there was all rum and nothing else-don't light a match!
Hardwood Bar (Carricaou)-typical beach shack restaurant with excellent service and reasonable price. Delicious stewed chicken plate with four pieces of chicken, peas/rice and island vegs, good fries.
