Restaurants in Belize City
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Nerie’s II Restaurant
Nerie’s offers most imaginable accompaniments to rice and beans, including curried lamb, stewed cow foot, lobster, gibnut and deer. You can start things off with a choice of soups, including chicken, escabeche (with chicken, lime and onions), chirmole (with chicken and a chili-chocolate sauce) or (again!) cow foot, and round it off with cassava pudding.
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Big Daddy’s
You’ll get hearty, low-priced meals and friendly service here. At breakfast, fry-jacks (lightly fried pancake slices), eggs, bacon, sausage and a fresh juice are under BZ$8. Lunch is served cafeteria-style from 11am until the food is gone. Rice-and-beans and vegetable-and-rice dishes are the stock in trade, and the view over Haulover Creek from the upper deck is free.
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St George’s Dining Room
The main restaurant at the Radisson serves hearty buffet lunches with a different theme daily (Mexican, Caribbean, Asian etc) and a mainly Mediterranean dinner menu, with plenty of seafood and some vegetarian options. There are also buffets on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, and a big Sunday brunch. Dishes are reliably good.
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Dit’s Restaurant
Dit’s is a local favorite, a fine place to get rice-and-bean Belizean standards, sandwiches and Mexican dishes such as panades and salbutes (variations on the tortilla). Especially good are the desserts, coconut and lemon pies, milk shakes and juices. The surrounding neighborhood is a bit dicey.
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Chon Saan Palace
Considered the best Chinese restaurant in Belize City, Chon Saan would probably be considered mediocre in most US cities. Though portions are ample, meals are uninspired, and tacking BZ$5 per person on the bill for Chinese tea bumps the restaurant into a price bracket disproportionate to its culinary quality.
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Sumathi Indian Restaurant
Belize City’s best Indian restaurant provides a huge range of flavorsome curries, tandooris and biryanis (spicy rice and meat-or-vegetable dishes), with plenty of vegetarian options, all in generous quantities. Bollywood films on the TV intensify the mood. It does meals to go if you prefer.
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Macy’s
Macy’s provides consistently good Creole cooking, with friendly service and good prices. The menu changes daily, but you’re always likely to find chicken, fish fillets and stewed beef or meatballs. Game, such as boar, gibnut and deer, often makes an appearance.
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Wet Lizard
Inside the Belize Tourist Village but also accessible directly from the street, the Wet Lizard provides solid serves of mainly Belizean and Tex-Mex food amid bright tropical colors, ’70s rock and plenty of cruise-ship passengers. Its upper-deck setting is breezy.
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Calypso Club
A waterfront restaurant at the Princess Hotel & Casino, Calypso serves ample portions of Belizean- and Caribbean-style seafood. Burgers, pasta and salads provide lighter and more economical options – but a regular Belikin is BZ$6.
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Stonegrill Restaurant
At this thatched poolside restaurant at the Radisson hotel you get to grill your own meal – steak, fajitas, shrimp, chicken satay and the like – on super-hot volcanic stones. It’s fun, tasty and free of added fat.
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Smoky Mermaid
Attached to the Great House hotel, the Smoky Mermaid serves tasty Caribbean and international food on a lovely patio with tinkling fountains and towering tropical trees. The meals are dependably good and the servings satisfying.
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Le Petite Café
For muffins, croissants, cookies and a wide variety of coffee drinks, stop in at this excellent little cafe and bakery run by the Radisson.
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Save U
This modern supermarket is convenient for loading up on supplies before heading out into the wilds of Belize.
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Jambel’s Jerk Pit
Jambel’s recent move from the city center to the northern outskirts is a good example of why Belize City deserves its reputation for danger: despite his restaurant having long been a neighborhood fixture, the owner decided to pack it in after a robbery at the former location on King St ended with him being shot in the stomach. Jambel’s new location on the coast is far more pleasant, and his food, blending the best of Jamaican and Belizean culinary traditions, is still tops. Try the jerk fish, jerk chicken, or jerk family platter. Vegetarians won’t want to miss Jambel’s jerk tomato pasta. Is there anything this man can’t jerk?
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Ma Ma Chen Restaurant
Looking for an antidote for meat-heavy Belizean cuisine? Look no further: Ma Ma Chen’s is a genuine Taiwan-style vegetarian restaurant, serving tofu, brown rice and vegetable dishes. The Chen’s also run a guesthouse of the same name.
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