Oistins Fish Fry

Christ Church’s south coast is Barbados’ liveliest stretch, flat water and reliable trade winds, and Deia gives that energy a proper European-style beach club to match.

Perched above one of the world’s most beautiful beaches at Barbados’s oldest hotel — The Crane Beach Bar has been serving cold Banks and rum punches since 1887.

Barbados’s reigning nightlife institution on Carlisle Bay — two dance floors, unlimited house drinks, soca and reggae until sunrise, and turtle tours during the day if you can manage it.

On Carlisle Bay in Bridgetown, The Boatyard is open every single day of the year — because when your backyard is this turquoise, why would you ever close?

Don’t be fooled by the ‘Lone Star Garage’ sign – this west-coast Barbados institution started life in the 1940s as an actual garage before cycling through furniture repair shop, bus depot, and nightclub on its way to becoming one of the Platinum Coast’s original chic beach bars. Lone Star basically invented the neighborhood’s now-crowded upscale scene, and it still shows the way: breezy covered seating over a gorgeous beach, a corner bar with automotive prints and imaginative cocktails, and a genuinely excellent kitchen. It’s a place to see and be seen, and it knows it, but the welcome is warm enough that the Kir Royales go down easy either way.