Ciao at the Normandie

Port of Spain


For a quiet romantic dinner, take a table on the pretty terrace and enjoy excellent service and great food that blends Caribbean staples with world flavours: fresh fish in a wine and caper sauce, Asian-style BBQ pork, chicken in a mushroom-cream sauce. Lighter burgers and salads at lunchtime, too. Every second Sunday, there's a nice Soul Food brunch; kids under eight eat free.


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