Reggae Beach Bar & Grill

Every major travel publication that has visited has called this one of the best beach bars in the world, the Killer Bee cocktail is legendary and the Kittitian welcome makes every visitor feel like a regular immediately.

On the Caribbean side of Frigate Bay Beach — Spinnakers delivers consistent rum punches, grilled seafood, and weekend live music to the Saint Kitts crowd that knows better than to leave.

The view across the Narrows to Nevis from Cockleshell Bay is one of the most beautiful in the entire Eastern Caribbean, and Spice Mill pairs it with a genuinely serious cocktail program.

Chrishi wouldn’t look out of place on St. Barth’s St. Jean Beach – pristine white-and-blue construction, funky lounge music at a reasonable volume, and a distinctly Euro sensibility courtesy of its Norwegian ownership. Despite the polish, it stays refreshingly unpretentious, Nevis-style. A genuinely good light-lunch menu fills a real gap on an island where that’s harder to find than it should be. Covered tables and comfortable sofas out front, loungers and deck chairs for anyone who wants a quick dip. Strong top-shelf spirits selection, properly chilled champagne, and a wine list a notch above typical beach-bar fare. Popular for private events – worth checking availability before a special trip.

Also known as Ganzie’s, this is about as no-frills as Pinney’s Beach gets: a four-post wood frame, a scatter of stools and a picnic table or two, and a cooler of Carib and Stag parked front-row on the sand with an unobstructed view across the channel to St. Kitts. Ganzie runs the place with a laid-back charm that makes up for the complete absence of pretension – notice a band t-shirt and he’ll have it queued up on the speaker before you’ve ordered. Don’t worry if nobody’s behind the bar when you show up; Ganzie’s never far. Snacks hang from the roof, cocktails are more theory than practice here, and the whole appeal is baked into the name.