Fun! Delicious Barbados Fish Fries

Going to Barbados fish fries is an amazingly fantastic way to try mouth-watering, Bajan cuisine-al fresco!

Indulge your taste buds in a delectable stake of fried or grilled fish at any Barbados fish fry affair.

Fresh fish are fried or grilled on the spot and often seasoned for best flavour with Bajan Seasoning.

Choose your fish and how you like it prepared.

The vendor sets your flavoured fillet or steak to cook and after a few minutes…Mmmm you will smell a tantalizing aroma.

At most Barbados fish fries, fish is often accompanied with a Bajan side of your choice.

Banks beer and rum and coke are the are the order for the night and Bajans have a few before and after their meal. It’s another tasty part of Barbados’ culture.

The main location for this activity is Oistins, one of the island’s largest fishing villages.

Besides seafood, other delicious Bajan dishes are available at Oistins and most other Barbados fish fries.

When I went to Oistins however, the meal was so impeccably delicious that this cook is the best one to tell you about her menu and the Bajan dishes available at Oistins along with your fish.

Mo’s grill and cooking is where we ate dinner during the Oistins fish festival.

To get the full list of what Mo serves see the video.

In the video Mo mentions “dolphin” as one of the fish on her menu.

The dolphin Mo refers to is also called mahi-mahi or dorado and is not related to the mammal called dolphin.

You will often notice "dolphin" on some restaurant menus through out Barbados but it is always the dorado that they are referring to.

A warm host- Mo prepares her food well, and provides service second to none- always making sure that her customers are comfortable.

Fish fries are a fun-filled affair for friends, families and your significant other.

You can also find lively and tasty fish fries at:

In the northern part of the island check out Moon Town, this fish fry is hosted in Half Moon Fort, St. Lucy, and not in the same "village style" as with Oistins and Baxters road but is a charming and authentic evening out.

Food is prepared and served under a galvanize canopy supported by four wooden columns accented with metal breadfruit leaves.

It is easy to find this fish fry, on a Friday night, after you pass Speightstown and enter the parish of St. Lucy, keep driving for a few minutes until you reach an open air lime, smell the scents of baked pork, barbecue chicken, macaroni pie and fried fish.

Without load music, there is plenty local personality, games of dominoes and unobstructed views of the moonlit sea at this affair.

I visited two other fishing villages:

Sixmens in St. Peter

Reid’s Bay in St. James

In addition to those mentioned above and Cheapside Fish Market in Bridgetown, these are good places to get fresh fish in Barbados,straight from fishermen boats.

The Art of Preparing Fresh Fish

In a gourmet mood…, prefer to stay in and cook fresh fish to your taste.

Better than actually picking out the fresh fish you want.

Watching fish being prepared is like viewing a local talent in itself.

Vendors preparing fish is a fine art, a graceful skill, exuding precision and strength and a bit of tradition.

Scaling, boning and traditionally sharpening tools to deliver their product to perfection.

The skill of fish boning is put to the test during the Oistins Fish Festival, which takes place in Barbados during the Easter weekend.

In addition to local music, traditional grease pole climbing (yes it is what it probably sounds like- people climbing a greasy metal pole to see who can make-it to the top), there is also a fish boning competition to see which vendor can bone fish the most precise. The prize goes to the vendor with the fastest time and the best boned fish.

However you decide to ravish your fish, or whichever Barbados fish fry you choose to go to, we have two words to say- “Bon appetit!”




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