Ocean Echo

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.

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.

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.

FunZone sits at the eastern end of Meads Bay, near Blanchards and Leon’s. Beyond the location there is not much we can confirm: no verified menu, no signature drink, no opening year.

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.

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.