Anegada Lobster Dinner BVI
🌟 Anegada Lobster Dinner BVI 🦞
Experience a true slice of paradise on Anegada!
👉 Dine under the stars
👉 Savor the island’s famed lobster
Engage all your senses with a sublime culinary experience that’s simply unforgettable. Enjoy this unique taste adventure surrounded by the serene beauty of the BVI.
✨ Treat yourself to this island delight! 🥂
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Getting to Anegada
After breakfast, leave North Sound on Virgin Gorda and take a 2-3 hour sail to Anegada. The cruise is an excellent place to watch your cares float away, and if you have a fishing rod in hand, so much the better.
The water will become shallower and clearer the further away from Virgin Gorda you go, and your crew may enlist your help to look for coral heads the closer you get to Anegada as they weave their way between them to find the passage.
Ordering your Anegada Lobster
Once you get close to Anegada, the Captain will radio your chosen restaurant, and they will give you the menu for that night. It will go like this.
Captain “I have eight guests for the yacht mystical coming for dinner tonight.”
Chosen Restaurant: “We have lobster, steak, chicken, fresh grouper, and ribs. We only have one dinner of grouper left.”
You will decide how many people at your party want each of them. And tell them. They will set aside those for your dinner. It will drop off the list when they run out of an item.
That is it. The restaurant will return telling you what time to be there for dinner.
How do they cook your Anegada Lobster?
The lobster is BBQ’ed on top of cut-open oil drums. A bit of Anegadian ingenuity!
You can watch them clean the lobster right when you get off the dock. The lobster is split in half, cooked with butter, herbs, and seasonings, then wrapped in tin foil and cooked over an open fire. Typically, you find a baked potato and other sides with it.
There are exceptions to this, as I tell you below, but this is the vibe for the restaurants around the main anchorage in Anegada.
Where to go for Lobster on Anegada?
This is not an exhaustive list, and I would love to hear if you have unique places that should be added to my list. Most of these are my impressions and what I have heard from my charter guests when I used to run yacht charters.
Potters is very popular and can be very busy. They often have a DJ. I have had guests who loved this and others who didn’t. I was one of the “not so much” as I found it hot underneath the tight seating tent. They hurried me and were just a bit lacking. It was a very busy night, though. I do think it is your best choice for the “party” atmosphere, and you can often find music afterwards to dance and party with.
Wonky Dog. I have not been here for Lobster, but they get high praise and make some mean original cocktails at their Beach Bar.
Anegada Reef Hotel & Anegada Beach Club
Anegada Reef Hotel. This is the original. They have been doing it for decades. There is more room spread out on the sand for the tables, and I don’t feel rushed. Truthfully, at all these places, the sides are a bit uninspiring, consisting of coleslaw, potato salad, and whatever else they put on this day, but the ambiance cannot be beaten.
Anegada Beach Club is my favorite. It has a different vibe. It is evident across the island on a deserted part, and the beach at night goes on forever. The food is best, but it differs from the party toes in the sand lobster experience. We brought a singer-songwriter with us once and had him play for us on the deserted beach after dinner one night. That might have added to the ambiance.
They do have a pool here, and you can spend time there before lounging with drinks. You order from a menu 🙂
Neptune’s Treasure This restaurant has better menus, with pizza and the like also being available for non-lobster lovers for a bit of a change of pace to the “mostly only lobster restaurants.” I will try conch fritters in every single place that I possibly can in the Virgin Islands!
Anegada Lobster Dinner BVI
The Caribbean Lobster has a different taste than Maine Lobster and lacks claws. This truly is a dining experience unique to the British Virgin Islands, where the ambiance of the location combines with the food and location to create a memorable experience.
A further tip is if you have lobster out at Anegada, there will surely be leftovers. You can return it to the yacht and ask your chef to make Lobster Bisque or Lobster Benedict the next day.
Have I piqued your interest yet? Contact us. Let’s make it happen! Typically, we have an Anegada Lobster Festival at the end of November.
Feel Free to try this at home:
How to make an Anegada Smoothie!
Anegada Smoothie (which is properly pronounced “Smoodie”)
