How are the restaurants in Corozal?

The restaurants in Corozal are pretty basic for the most part. Belizean food is on the menu for sure: rice and beans and stew chicken or pork or beef. You can get burgers. You can get pizza. 

 

The beef in Corozal is really not a big product simply because they don’t grow enough grain for feed, like we do in the US. There are some places you can get some good beef but for the most part the stuff you’re going to find is not going to be what...

The restaurants in Corozal are pretty basic for the most part. Belizean food is on the menu for sure: rice and beans and stew chicken or pork or beef. You can get burgers. You can get pizza. 

 

The beef in Corozal is really not a big product simply because they don’t grow enough grain for feed, like we do in the US. There are some places you can get some good beef but for the most part the stuff you’re going to find is not going to be what Americans, and particularly Texans, would think of as a good steak.

 

They have any kind of fish you can think of and there’s usually a fresh fish every day. There’s plenty of pork and chicken, and usually, it’s a lot of local cooking.  They call any sandwich a “burger” in Corozal. So you can get a chicken burger, a beef burger, a pork burger, a conch burger, a lobster burger, etc.  

 

If you’re looking for higher end cuisines, Pedro is a good place to go and there is a boat that will take you to San Pedro as well. There’s a water taxi and it’s cheap. It’s a little more than a 2-hour drive on the larger boats. They will bring you over to San Pedro, where they’ve got all kinds of different dining options because it’s more of a tourist destination.  Also, down in Placencia, there’s a higher concentration of gringos, so you got a little more variety than what we have.

 

Certainly the food is adequate in Corozal and it’s not expensive.  I like it.  You can have enough variety to satisfy you if you ate out a number of times a week.  You can have something different. 

 

You could also go to Chetumal, Mexico, which is less than 10 miles away. Believe it or not, it has an Applebee’s.  Overall, they use a little different spices and techniques but then you do have some more Americanized stuff and strangely enough, you really don’t get a lot of what we think of as “Mexican food.” 

 

There is a Guatemalan food influence. The popular hors d oeuvres are salbutes, which normally is a corn tortilla that’s fried and has different toppings on it. And they have little wheat pies, which are like empanadas, but they don’t call them that.  

 

(Salbutes, pictured.)

The restaurants in Corozal are good. There are definitely some that are more expat-focused. For example, there’s Blue’s, Tony’s Inn, and Jam Rock, which are all located on the waterfront. There’s also the Wood House Bistro whose focus is also a little bit more expat-based, which means they have more services than most local restaurants do. The Wood House Bistro offers more variety and more drink offerings. 

 

Some of the local...

The restaurants in Corozal are good. There are definitely some that are more expat-focused. For example, there’s Blue’s, Tony’s Inn, and Jam Rock, which are all located on the waterfront. There’s also the Wood House Bistro whose focus is also a little bit more expat-based, which means they have more services than most local restaurants do. The Wood House Bistro offers more variety and more drink offerings. 

 

Some of the local restaurants here in Corozal have air conditioning. A lot of expats like the local restaurants in Corozal, too. Patti’s Bistro is another example of a good restaurant in Corozal. They serve local food, but you can always see expats in there, too. 

 

In Corozal, you won’t find McDonald’s or Burger King. Everything in Corozal is pretty much individually-owned. There are funny fake chains instead, like this one called “Marbucks.” There’s also a restaurant called “Subaway,” and I saw an “In-and-Out” one that was trying to be like “In-and-Out” burger kind of place. 

 

There are lots of places that are called “fast food” here in Corozal, but are not really fast. When you go to Chetumal, as soon as you cross the border, you’ll find Burger King, McDonald’s, Applebee’s, Wendy’s, Office Depot, Home Depot, etc. Right there, 9 miles past Corozal, you have every choice in the world.

 

(Pictured: Marbucks, in Corozal, Belize.)