The Sugar Mill Restaurant

There can’t be too many opportunities of eating by candlelight in a stone sugar mill that is over 350 years old, with the walls vividly splashed with Haitian paintings and big copper basins overflowing with tropical flowers. 

In addition, you can eat food of such quality that Celebrated Living Magazine selected the restaurant as one of the three best in the whole of Mexico and the Caribbean.  Well, that’s The Sugar Mill for you.

That really is all you need to know.  For a romantic atmosphere and highest quality food, The Sugar Mill is the place.

Located in the Sugar Mill Hotel in Apple Bay, the restaurant’s reputation has steadily grown in recent years under the careful scrutiny of the chef/proprietors, Jeff and Jinx Morgan.  Of course, their task is made so much easier by the unsurpassed beauty of the surroundings of the Sugar Mill.  You can sip your pre-dinner drinks in the alfresco gazebo terrace bar, looking out over Jost Van Dyke or losing yourself in one of the North Shore’s incomparable sunsets. 

Then, simply wander in to the main restaurant, in what was once the boiling house of the sugar mill, and discover for yourself exactly why the readers of Caribbean Travel and Life chose this as the best restaurant in the Caribbean – a view echoed by The Washington Post.

The Sugar Mill menu

The Morgans have their own garden on the site to supply their herbs and many of their vegetables but have also been able to develop first-rate sources for imported foodstuffs.  Their love of fresh ingredients and fresh and bold flavor combinations means that, however jaded your palate, you are sure to find something enticing.  The menu changes nightly at The Sugar Mill, to reflect the products that are available that day, but here’s a selection of the variety of tempting items that can typically be found here.  For starters, there might be a roasted pepper salad, a tasty wild mushroom soup, shrimp and vegetable skewers served over caramelized pineapple salsa, tomato-ginger soup or their signature dish, coconut shrimps with a lime and ginger salsa. 

The Sugar Mill main course, decision time

Main courses at The Sugar Mill present an equally difficult selection problem for the customer– choosing from a diverse menu which will often include such delights as salmon wrapped in leek with petit pois emulsion and shaved fennel salad a la Nicoise; Pan roasted duck breast with Asian Coleslaw and soba noodles; grilled pork tenderloin with papaya and tamarind glaze or simple grilled fresh fish served with a pineapple-pepper salsa.

If you take your time and make sure you have room for a dessert, then just imagine how good an ice cream trio of grapefruit, cantaloupe and mango must be!  What a superb way to complete a perfect meal.

The Sugar Mill Restaurant also serves lunch, on the beach, at their Islands restaurant, where every table has a view of the water.  You can have a midday feast on salt fish fritters, flying fish sandwich, crab cakes and various daily specials.

There’s one more added bonus with The Sugar Mill – you can bring back The Sugar Mill Cookbook so that when you’re at home and dreaming of going back to Tortola, you can cook up a taste of the Caribbean and remind yourself of the perfect Sugar Mill evenings you enjoyed.

With such a popular restaurant, you are advised to reserve your table in advance.  The Sugar Mill can be contacted at 284 4954355 or find out more information from www.sugarmillhotel.com .

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