Restaurants in Fiji
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Old Mill Cottage
Housed (as the name suggests) in a gracious old timber cottage, this Suva institution is the city's best spot for adventurous gastronomes to dabble in authentic Fijian fare. Exotic dishes including palusami (meat, onion and lolo wrapped in dalo leaves and baked in a lovo), curried shellfish, and seaweed or fish stewed in lolo assemble themselves underneath the front counter alongside Indian curries and vegetarian dishes. You can also dig into a traditional roast.
Addicted office workers cram into the joint for lunch, parking themselves at tables on the front veranda or at the large booth seating inside. The spacious interior is filled with a pleasant cross-breeze (which…
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Surf And Turf
The signs on the window still proclaim Charan's Dinning Room (sic), but Surf And Turf is an altogether more upmarket affair. The manager's husband is a chef at the Cousteau resort, and he trained the chef here. He did a great job; this place is highly recommended. Surf and turf (lobster tail and fillet mignon) is around F$50 at dinner, by the way.
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Sea View Café
Here you'll get cheap, cheerful travellers' food, served by the endlessly helpful Elenoa.
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Chefs, the Restaurant
One of Nadi's finest; this swanky restaurant is perfect for a splurge on taste and atmosphere. Meals match the refined surrounds with a truly global menu offering roasted duckling ravioli, Afghan chicken and excellent seafood dishes. Downstairs, the café version of this main event has a roomy and relaxed interior and serves Indian and Thai curries as well as pizza, pasta, salads and burgers. The air-con will allow you to enjoy the vindaloo even in the midst of summer.
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Daikoku
Behind a fortress of ornate timber doors, Daikoku is about having as much fun as you can filling your belly. Patrons sit around large square hotplates while their individual chef performs the sometimes gentle, sometimes energetic, always entertaining art of teppanyaki. Also gracing the menu is delicate sushi and sashimi as well as traditional pickles and Japanese beer to whet the palate. The atmosphere is intimate, the service flawless and the food utterly sublime.
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JJ's on the Park
Dishing up good Western-style food and blessed with terrific harbour views from the 180-degree glass frontage, JJ's is an atmospheric place to dine. Salads, burgers, enchiladas, steak and fresh seafood dishes are served in generous quantities and the wine list is impressive. The surrounds are glossy and polished, service is attentive and a Fijian Belafonte often taps the ivory in the background.
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Raffles Floating Restaurant
The floating restaurant attached to Raffles Tradewinds hotel is one of the most scenic spots in Suva to dine. Lunch is the best time to enjoy the harbour views, when the glass windows surrounding the interior flood the room with light. Seafood and classy steak dishes feature highly on the dinner menu, but lunch is a cheaper and more relaxed affair. The burgers here are legendary.
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Korea House
The interior of this restaurant may lose its oomph once you pass the grand entrance flanked by a Korean mural but the food does not. Pungent kimchi (pickled vegetables) and sticky Korean barbecue dishes are served as well as authentic squid, pork, tofu, prawn and chicken. There's an around F$10 lunch special and many dishes attract a 10% discount at night.
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Daikoku Restaurant
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Sushi
The acrobatic culinary skills of Daikoku's chefs are reason enough to spend an evening here, and the seafood, chicken and beef seared on the sizzling teppanyaki plates would hold up to any Tokyo restaurant. Sushi and sashimi is also on the menu and a happy chatter fills the room. Bookings are recommended - it's one of Suva's finest and is often full.
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Zen Restaurant
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Sushi
This small and intimate restaurant serves delicately presented sushi, tempura, udon (wheat noodles) and soba (buckwheat noodles) dishes as well as a modicum of Korean meals. The graceful décor features Japanese screens, and soft Japanese tunes play in the background. The menu provides helpful pictures for the uninitiated.
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Aberdeen Grill
This stately restaurant has the interior of an old boys' club; plenty of dark wood, brass, mock antique seating and wide bay windows. The food is similarly conservative, but it's done well. European-influenced chicken, steak and seafood are the predominant stars of the carnivorous menu. Lunch is a three-course set menu (around F$25).
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Tiko's Floating Restaurant
Elegant and devoid of pretension, Tiko's serves excellent surf-and-turf fare, including New Zealand steak and fresh local fish (walu and pakapaka), on board a gracious cruising vessel. The wine list includes Grange Hermitage and the windowed walls bathe the place in amber at sunset. It's best enjoyed on calm nights.
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Sentai Seafood Restaurant
The décor may be shambolic but Sentai's Asian infusion menu knows exactly what it's doing. There's a heavy emphasis on seafood and adventurous souls can tuck into a bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber) combination hotpot. There's always beef in black-bean sauce or prawns with lemon and ginger for the meek.
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Captain's Café
The food here is usually good - but forget about Sunday (when the chef takes the day off) - and the views of the harbour are fantastic. There are pizzas, fish and chips and sandwiches, and the daily specials are always worth trying. You can buy drinks - including cheap draught beer - from the Yacht Club next door.
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Cakes 2000
This café-cum-bakery-cum-cake shop dishes up hearty breakfasts and the best sausage rolls and pies in town. Tuck into overstuffed sandwiches or Fijian faves such as palusami stuffed with fish and roast lamb neck for lunch, or just gorge on a tiramisu and baileys or choc-orange-chip cheesecake.
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Decked Out Café
A fine place to watch the world go by on a sunny day, the Decked Out Café is a big, open deck on the main street, offering filling breakfasts and a limited menu of tasty and filling burgers and sandwiches. The daily specials are large and cheap. The fresh fruit smoothies (around F$3) are excellent.
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Capital Palace
It seems half of Suva converges here for the excellent Sunday yum cha but the regular menu also sites authentic delights including shark-fin soup and fried squid with chilli and salt plus infusions such as sesame chicken with dalo. Mouth-watering smells and a happy din surround diners.
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Lazy Cactus
This snappy little cantina oozes a warm atmosphere and delicious smells. The food is Mexican and the cooks mean business - burritos, enchiladas and a kicking camarones en mojo de ajo (shrimp with garlic, chillies and butter). You can dine inside or in the pleasant courtyard.
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Curry House
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Balti
This industrious curry house serves excellent lamb, chicken, fish and vegetarian curries in a canteen-style setting. The pakoras, samosas and other sides are hefty and fresh and a good option if you're on the run. It gets busy so the earlier you eat lunch the shorter the table wait.
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Govinda's Vegetarian Restaurant
Saris and families dominate the patronage at this vegetarian restaurant, which is a good indication of the authenticity of the food. The array of thalis is impressive but you should definitely leave room for the delicious Indian sweets on display. Indian tunes fill the background.
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Singh's Curry House
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Balti
Owner Mamaji runs a tight ship at this great little curry joint, where a delectable array of mostly South Indian curries tempts diners from the front counter. Seating is at booths or you can take away. It's one of the few places open on a Sunday and a great option for vegetarians.
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Mama's Pizza
- Nadi, Fiji
- Restaurants › Pizza
It serves traditional crowd-pleasers as well as wood-fired gourmet treats including garlic-glazed chicken, smoked walu (butter fish) or eggplant and sun-dried tomato pizzas. Pastas and salads are also up for grabs. Mama's downtown outlet is cool, dark and inviting.
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Cafe Tivoli
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Café
The café of the moment, Tivoli serves salsa-and-cheese stuffed croissants, mammoth bagels and toasted focaccias, eggs any style you like and dense quiches. Tables are scattered beneath a breezy outdoor pagoda and there are delicious sweet treats if you still have room.
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Sichuan Pavilion Restaurant
- Suva, Fiji
- Restaurants › Asian
Occupying a 1st-floor corner of the Garrick Hotel, this elegant restaurant serves a refreshing alternative to the ubiquitous chow-mien and chop-suey menu, with Sichuan dishes the speciality. On balmy days the alfresco seating on the balcony induces long and lazy lunches.
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Saffron the Corner
Delicious curries served in one-meal-a-day portions display themselves under the counter at this corner diner. The ambience is a tad fast-food chain and you'll need to contend with Hindu tunes butchered by a drum machine, but it's a good spot for a mountainous feed.
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