
The restaurants in Ambergris Caye are lovely. I love them! They are more expensive than other places, but we have a really lovely array of restaurants here.
You can eat at local restaurants. When I am trying to spend only US $5 for my lunch, I eat out at local restaurants where you can buy stew chicken, rice, and beans or pork chop, salad and mashed potato. You can also buy burritos, tacos, tostadas (pictured), and nachos for $5.
In England, we consider a nice meal to consist of meat, a lot of carbohydrates and vegetables or salad, whereas here in Belize, they will ask you what you want to eat. If you ask what the choices are, they will tell you that it is meat, rice, potatoes and pasta all in the same plate. For me, from England, that just seems very odd. Normally, we would have potatoes and a salad or potatoes and vegetables, but here, they would happily serve rice, potatoes, and salad all in the same plate, and that would be okay.
We also have beautiful restaurants. My favorite is Blue Water Grill. They serve sushi on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which I love. It is a packed restaurant. They do two or three sittings per night during the high season and I love it there. Their breakfast is delicious and their lunch is slightly different but are very lovely. They are open 365 days a year usually.
There is another nice restaurant here in Ambergris Caye called Mangoes and they bring lots of different selection to their menu every year. They have caramba, which is a beautiful fish.
Everywhere you go here in Ambergris Caye, you will find delicious meals but it is not very inexpensive. You will pay anywhere between $30 and $40 for a nice meal at a nice restaurant. You will not get cheap meals here like you would in places like Mexico where you walk down the streets and you will see all their fish and lobsters outside their restaurants and think, “Oh, that’s lovely!” and where you go in and you come out and you spent only $10. It is not like that here in Ambergris Caye. You will find places that serve nice and inexpensive food but if you go to nice places with live music, you will pay extra. This is a tourist town and everything is imported.