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By the Caribbean Journal staff
The Caribbean has no shortage of great culinary festivals, from St Barth to Barbados, all showcasing the marvelous diversity of Caribbean food.
But one of the Caribbean’s most popular destination food festivals has a rather special party piece: it comes with a side of island-hopping.
The British Virgin Islands’ BVI Food Fete is a month-long celebration of cuisine, one that, uniquely, combines events on six different islands: Tortola, Scrub Island, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Cooper Island and Scrub Island.
The event kicks off with the BVI Gourmet Soiree, showcasing Scrub Island’s new executive chef, Chloe St-Cyr, with a menu helmed by six award-winning chefs.
On Nov. 9, the Taste of Tortola will be a culinary block party, with food trucks, local eateries and vendors cooking up their best work at the Queen Elizabeth II Park.
The following weekend includes the Cooper Island Rum Festival, centered around the boutique hotel’s famous rum bar with almost 300 different rums on offer, while the next day will see a pork barbecue on Jost Van Dyke.
Cooper Island is a pilgrimage destination for rum lovers.
The following weekend takes travelers to the Taste of Virgin Gorda, with a jazz-fueled gourmet party with views of The Baths.
The Anegada Reef in Anegada.
Finally, what may be the fete’s most popular event is hte two-day Anegada Lobster Festival from Nov. 30-Dec. 1, a two-day party celebrating what remains the Caribbean’s capital of lobster.
It’s a diverse schedule of must-visit food stops, meaning travelers can get a taste of the BVI on one island or plan a getaway with multiple Food Fete stops in their itinerary.
It’s yet another sign of the BVI’s inspiring comeback from the storms of 2017 – and a resounding message that the BVI is back and better than ever.
For more, visit the BVI Food Fete.
— CJ
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By the Caribbean Journal staff
There’s a new culinary experience to try in Cancun.
Cancun’s Seadust Cancun Family Resort has launched a new “gastronomic tour” that is now running through December, the property told Caribbean Journal.
The newest culinary tour in the Mexican Caribbean will give travelers a taste of every restaurant at the hotel, including its popular French eatery, La Maison de Michelle.
The tour includes the Japanese restaurant Samurai; the New York-style Manhattan; the Mexican eatery El Maguey and the Italian-inspired Lifghthouse.
The family-friendly all-inclusive has a total of 10 restaurants and nine bars.
For more, visit Seadust Cancun.
— CJ
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Jamaica’s hotel development boom is set to continue with plans for 3,000 new rooms in the parish of St Ann.
The government of Jamaica said it had finalized the sale of land in the area of Salem, St Ann, paving the way for hotel developers from Karisma to begin construction plans on a major new 3,000-room, multi-phase hotel project.
Regional travel giant Karisma Hotels and Resorts will be building the project in several phases, beginning with 700 later this year, according to Jamaica tourism officials.
The Karisma project was officially announced at the recent JAPEX Jamaica tourism exchange event in Montego Bay, the island’s largest tourism sector conference.
The long-awaited project could see the development of as many as 5,000 new hotel rooms for its proposed “Sugarcane Project.”
The project could mean as much as $1 billion in new hotel investment in Jamaica.
— ÇJ
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