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Blanchards Beach Shack opened in December 2011 next door to Blanchards Restaurant, which has spent years on best-of-the-Caribbean lists under chef Melinda Blanchard.

Leon’s is the beach-level operation at Malliouhana, at the eastern end of Meads Bay. Unlike most resort kitchens on this bay it does run as a toes-in-the-sand bar as well as a restaurant, with chair service on the sand and a menu the resort describes as Caribbean with an Asian turn.

Straw Hat runs out of the Frangipani Beach Resort on Meads Bay, open seven days a week from breakfast through dinner and closed entirely for September and October.

Ocean Echo is on Meads Bay, the same stretch as Straw Hat, Blanchards and Leon’s. It is listed as a restaurant rather than a beach bar, which on this bay generally means table service and a bill to match.

Savi sits on Meads Bay, the west-end stretch where most of Anguilla’s higher-end dining has collected. It runs as a full beach club rather than a walk-up shack: restaurant, bar, and chair-and-umbrella service on the sand.

Prickly Pear Cay sits about six miles north of Road Bay, a pair of uninhabited islands split by a narrow boat channel into Prickly Pear East and Prickly Pear West.