Best Places to Stock Up Full Provisioning of Everything Since Sarah and Leo opened their multiple award winning Gourmet Shop and wholesale business 25 years ago they have been doing a great job supplying the best quality of just about everything, at reasonable prices, with a full provisioning and delivery service. This is the ‘Go To’ place for housekeepers, butlers and chefs or anyone who needs their villa or apartment stocked up. Along with their assistants, Rosemary and Helen, they can be called on to source your fresh local fish and lobsters, premium meats, cheeses, Asian ingredients, fresh local and imported fruit and vegetables and all epicurean delights (incl. truffles and fine chocolates). They also carry an impressive selection of competitively priced champagnes, wines, liquor and beer. You will enjoy a visit to their shop in the Chattel Village in Holetown.
Specialty Foods and Epicurean Delights Relish in Limegrove Lifestyle Centre has an eclectic selection of deli goodies, freshly baked baguettes, imported fresh produce and local organic and boutique cheeses. They also do catering for any occasion and provide a personal shopping service of both local and imported specialties.
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables The farmers markets are sociably very enjoyable and a great source of good quality produce, with several organic and best practice farmers taking part. Brighton Farmers Market early on Saturday, Holders Farmers Market on Sunday and Hastings Farmers Market on Wednesday and Saturday. In addition to Cheapside and the supermarkets, the vendors in Speightstown, Weston and Sunset Crest on the west coast, and Oistins on the south coast also have a good selection of fresh local produce.
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Fresh Fish The best places to find fresh local fish are the Public Fish Markets. On the west coast are Six Mens, Speightstown, Weston and Paynes Bay. The two largest are on Princess Alice Highway in Bridgetown and in Oistins on the south coast. Along the east coast, Consett Bay is the main one with two smaller markets at Skeete’s Bay and Tent Bay, while fish is also sold at a small facility in Martin’s Bay. Mahi-Mahi is delicious, locally referred to as dolphin - definitely a fish not to be confused with the mammal, porpoise. Other recommended fish are tuna, amberjack, snapper, barracuda, marlin and, of course, flying fish. There is also a good variety of pot fish, such as chubb and cavalli, that are harder to fillet but make very good eating. Vendors will de-bone and fillet the fish for a small fee.
Shrimp and Seafood Singapura in Limegrove has excellent raw shrimp with the tails on, imported lobster, crab, etc. PriceSmart has good cooked shrimp and tins of crab. Lobster Alive sells fresh lobster, cooked or raw.
Celebration Cakes and Desserts Patisserie Flindt make a superb line of desserts and celebration cakes. They also do excellent catering.
Meats Locally farmed beef, pork, black belly lamb and chicken are all very good. Carmeta’s, a government run retailer near to Cheapside Market in Bridgetown, sells a good selection but they are also available in supermarkets. Premium imported beef is sold at PriceSmart and Cost-U-Less. Above > Sarah Hamilton is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Gourmet Shop in Chattel Village, Holetown