Restaurants in Utila
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Located on the 1st floor of an island home built in 1864, this restaurant has a great Caribbean vibe, with pleasant outdoor seating on the front porch and at the back. The menu is a bit limited, but includes good vegetarian options and big breakfasts, which keeps it busy with travelers.
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RJ’s BBQ
Huge, cheap, well-prepared dishes attract a crowd here – it’s lucky for the other restaurants in town that RJ’s is only open three days a week. Choose from barbecued chicken, wahoo, kingfish, pork or beef, all of which are served with mashed potato and salad. The selections are written on a chalk board near the cash register, and erased one by one as the night wears on and the food runs out. Needless to say, come early. It’s across from Alton’s Dive Shop.
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Thompson’s Café Bakery
Don’t leave Utila without stopping here at least once to try the famous Johnny cakes – a doughy biscuit that is like manna from heaven when fresh from the oven and smeared with butter. For something heartier, have it with egg and ham: a Ferrari to the Egg McMuffin’s Pinto. Thompson’s opens early (and starts baking even earlier) so you can snag breakfast before an early dive. Good egg-and-bean breakfasts, fresh bread and cinnamon roles are also served.
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Café Mariposa
Housed in a canary- yellow building jutting out above the sea, the Mariposa has friendly service, yummy snacks and tremendous views. Don’t miss the pan-seared prawns accompanied with a freshly-mixed Piña Colada (after all, we’re in the tropics). You can save some duckets by going with the snacks and sandwiches.
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La Piccola
This classy restaurant serves excellent homemade Italian food – and a few traveler favorites. Most of the pasta is made fresh by hand and served at tables with candles and tablecloths in a second-floor patio setting.
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La Dolce Vita Pizzeria
In the courtyard of Mango Inn, this place serves great brick-oven pizza and decent seafood pastas, as well as breakfasts. It’s a good place to come for drinks, too, before Tranquila and Coco Loco get fired up.
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Fish Burgers
On the east side of the bridge to Pigeon Cay, this waterfront eatery offers up – surprise, surprise – fish burgers. There are a few more options on the menu, but why would you even try.
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Myrna’s Café
Down Jewel Cay on the north side of the main road, this hole in the wall serves baleadas, enchiladas and tajaditas at budget-busting prices.
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Dave’s Restaurant
In front of the Cocoloco, this is a massively popular spot serving grilled chicken or pork with your choice of sauces, from cilantro to basil and garlic.
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La Tienda del Pueblo
La Tienda del Pueblo has a wide selection of food, plus hippies selling their wares out the front – groovy.
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Ultralight Café
An Israeli restaurant run by a Utila native named after a doomed flying machine – you know there’s a story here. Joya, the owner, leased her burger joint to an Israeli couple, who switched from hamburgers to hummus, but were mainly interested in flying their ultralight. They were better chefs than pilots though: the ultralight crashed (no one was hurt) while the restaurant took off – the aircraft’s propeller still hangs in the little wood eatery. Joya returned, the Israelis left, and Joya planned to go back to burgers. But the Israelis’ kitchen assistant had memorized all the recipes and convinced Joya to stick with shakshuka (a popular Israeli egg dish), falafe…
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Bundu Café
Its panini sandwiches are enough to keep you fueled all day, and the breakfast is legendary. Unfortunately, hygiene is a bit circumspect. The large book exchange has a few good finds, if you search hard enough.
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