Westmoreland holds the West End cliffs, the southern part of Seven Mile Beach, the parish capital of Savanna-la-Mar and the fishing coast at Whitehouse, so your choices depend on which stretch you are in. For beachside food, start with Miss Lily's on Seven Mile Beach, where the menu runs to smoked and seasoned chicken, pork and fish, jerk cooking, whole snapper and seasonal lobster. For a vegan Ital plate on the cliffs, Ras Rody's Roadside Organic on West End Road, near the Negril lighthouse, serves vegan stews, vegetables, rice, ackee, plantain, soups and natural juices.
Away from the resort strip, the parish runs on roadside jerk and market cookshops. Part of Negril also extends into Hanover, so if your route crosses the parish line, the Hanover directory page lists the places on that side. At Whitehouse, the Jamaica Gleaner has described the fish and bammy stalls as a recognised cultural food location.
Seven Mile Beach
Seven Mile Beach is the beach side of Negril. If you are staying at an all-inclusive, the guide to eating outside your all-inclusive covers the wider options around the resorts. Miss Lily's keeps the whole day covered. Visit Jamaica gives breakfast from 7:00 to 11:30 a.m., lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and dinner from 5:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Seven Mile Beach is the beach side of Negril.
Arthur's Beach Bar & Grill on Norman Manley Boulevard, near Pineapple Beach Resort, serves seasonal seafood and Jamaican grilled chicken. For jerk, Best in the West is a jerk stop that also serves coconut pie. Bean There Café sits in Shop 57 at the Negril Craft Market on Norman Manley Boulevard. It is a cafe for breakfast, open every day from 8 am to 8 pm.
West End cliffs
Sunset dining in Negril is closely tied to the West End cliffs. Kool Vybes Bar and Jerk Center on West End Road is a wooden jerk hut that serves traditional Jamaican jerk and other Jamaican meals, with takeout. Murphy's West End is a Jamaican restaurant open every day, and it is associated with jerk chicken, jerk lobster and curried shrimp.
Sunset dining in Negril is tied to the West End cliffs.
Xtabi on Lighthouse Road serves Jamaican and American dishes, with cliffside and cave seating. The Jamaica Observer featured it in a June 2025 piece on Negril dining. Ras Rody's Roadside Organic is an Ital stop near the lighthouse. It is strictly vegan, with a menu that changes with seasonal ingredients. For more on the style, read Ital Food in Jamaica: What It Is and Where to Eat It.
More places in Negril
Three more Negril places cover seafood, Jamaican food and Asian dishes. Swordfish Resturant Negril is a seafood restaurant open Monday to Saturday from 2 pm to 10 pm, and it is closed on Sundays. Pewee's Restaurant & Bar serves Jamaican food and is open every day from 8 am to midnight. For more seafood tables, see seafood restaurants in Negril, with prices and lobster season.
Matthew's Restaurant is an Asian fusion restaurant with Chinese and Asian food. It opens at noon Monday to Thursday and closes at 11 pm, stays open until 1 am on Friday and Saturday, and runs from 9 am to 11 pm on Sunday. For a wider Negril list, read Best Restaurants in Negril, Jamaica.
Savanna-la-Mar
Savanna-la-Mar is the parish capital, and its everyday food runs through the market and the cookshops around it. The Savanna-la-Mar Market has flooded, and vending there has been temporary and disrupted since Hurricane Melissa, a Gleaner report from July 2026 said. Check at the market which cookshops are set up that day.
Hammond's Pastry Place Ltd at 18 Great George Street is a pastry shop for bakery items and patties. It is open Monday to Saturday from 8 am to 6 pm and closed on Sundays. Island Prime restaurant at 123 Great George Street serves world food and is open Monday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, closed Sundays.
Fire Station Side Restaurant is a chicken spot for fast food and takeout. It is open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 10 pm, Saturday from 8 am to 11 pm and closed on Sundays. Bridgez Jerk and Rest Stop on Big Bridge Main Road serves jerk chicken, Bridgez-style pot-roast pork and seafood, with hours of 11 am to 10 pm daily. For jerk stops in other parishes, read Where to Get the Best Jerk Chicken in Jamaica, Parish by Parish.
Whitehouse and the south coast
Whitehouse has a fishing complex and a long-standing fishing community, and its fish and bammy stalls sit within that working coast. Depending on the catch and the season, fish dishes can include fried, escovitch, steamed and grilled fish, along with lobster, conch and bammy. Belmont and Bluefields are the other coastal fishing communities nearby, and the fish on offer there depends on the day's catch.
Whitehouse has a fishing complex and a long-standing fishing community.
Bleu Koko is a seafood restaurant in White House, open every day from 11 am to 11 pm. Outa Road Restaurant serves Jamaican food and is open Monday to Saturday from 6 am to 8 pm, closed Sundays. Cody's Jerk Spot in White House serves jerk and barbecue alongside fast food and takeout. It is open Monday to Friday from 3:30 pm to midnight, and on Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 pm to 11:30 pm.
Little London and Grange Hill
Little London and Grange Hill are smaller communities with Jamaican plates, fast food and cafes. Lilly's JFC serves Jamaican food and is open every day. Sammy's Soul Food Restaurant and Bar is a fast food and takeout spot, open every day with evening closing times between 9 pm and 11 pm.
Eat To Liv Vegan Resturant is a vegan, vegetarian and Ital restaurant. It is open Monday to Friday from 11 am to 6 pm and closed on weekends. In Grange Hill, Daybreak Cafe is a breakfast cafe, open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 9 pm and Saturday from 7 am to 10 pm, closed Sundays.
Petersfield
Petersfield is known for curry and jerk. Chizzle's restaurant and sport bar serves Jamaican food and is open from 7 am to midnight most days, and from 10 am to midnight on Sundays. Amity Jerk Centre serves jerk and barbecue alongside bar and grill food, open every day from 9 am to 8 pm.
For ice cream, desserts or juice, La Glace Dolci & Cafe is open Monday to Thursday from 11 am to 7 pm, Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm, and Sunday from 1 pm to 9 pm.
What Westmoreland is known for
Westmoreland is especially associated with Negril jerk chicken, jerk pork and smoked meats. Its seafood includes fish, lobster, conch, shrimp and escovitch fish, and the fish and bammy at Whitehouse are tied to the fishing coast. Ital and vegan cooking shows up in Negril and in community meals inland, Savanna-la-Mar's cookshops serve everyday Jamaican plates, and Petersfield is known for its curry and jerk dishes.
Farm produce from the parish may appear in cookshop meals and roadside stalls.
Farm produce from the parish, including ackee, mango, banana, breadfruit, yam and sweet potato, may appear in cookshop meals, roadside produce stalls and seasonal market sales. Sugar-cane country around Frome adds to that mix, though food stops there are mostly small roadside or community businesses.
Food events and festivals
Festival dates are set year by year. Belmont Crab Fest is an annual event on the last Sunday in May at Belmont Marina in Belmont. The Westmoreland Agricultural Show was held at Bay Road Sports Complex in Little London on June 2, 2024, with livestock, crops, agricultural exhibits, demonstrations and food-security activities.
A Pork Festival was advertised for July 20, 2025, at Fada Chris Endz in Seaford Town. A Fish and Bammy Festival has been advertised for White, Westmoreland, with no date announced yet. Tosh Fest 2025 took place in Bluefields on October 19, 2025, with food vendors, a family day, music and a tribute ceremony at the Peter Tosh Memorial Garden. Confirm event dates with the organisers before you plan a trip.
Getting around and paying
The Transport Authority's published route-taxi fares, as of October 2026, are J$190 (about US$1.20) from West End to Negril, J$230 (about US$1.45) from Little London to Negril, and J$300 (about US$1.89) from Grange Hill to Negril. From Bluefields to Savanna-la-Mar, the published fare is J$230 (about US$1.45). Route taxis also serve Beach Road and West End Road in Negril, but plan your late-night return ride before you sit down to dinner.
Savanna-la-Mar's municipal transportation centre lists a J$150 (about US$0.94) taxi rate, a J$200 (about US$1.26) small-bus rate and a J$400 (about US$2.52) coaster rate, also as of October 2026. Seven Mile Beach and the West End cliffs are close together but are separate dining zones, so plan which one you are eating in each night.
Carry Jamaican dollars for route taxis, markets, roadside stalls and small cookshops. Lonely Planet says many Negril restaurants accept major cards and tap-to-pay, but it still recommends carrying cash. Food prices vary sharply between a cookshop, a roadside stop, a beach restaurant and a resort, so ask the price before you order.
Ordering at cookshops and jerk stops
At a cookshop counter, the pots on display are your menu. A plate is often built from several parts, such as a choice of meat, fish or vegetable dish with rice, peas, ground provisions, cabbage, callaloo or salad. Ask what was cooked that day, and whether the dish is spicy, before you pay.
Portions run from a small takeaway box to a large plate meant for sharing. Smaller cookshops and roadside stalls may sell out of particular dishes before their stated closing time, so go earlier in the day if you have a favourite in mind. Heavy rain can also affect roads, market access and opening hours.
Jerk and pepper can be hot, and Scotch bonnet pepper is common in Jamaican cooking. If you are not sure of your tolerance, say you would like the pepper on the side. Seafood depends on the day's catch, the weather and fishing conditions, and lobster and conch may be seasonal or unavailable. Ask whether the fish is fresh, frozen or farmed if that matters to you.
Local dishes to look for
Ackee and saltfish is often served with fried dumpling, boiled food, breadfruit or plantain. Other dishes worth seeing on a menu or at a cookshop counter include:
- Jerk chicken or pork
- Curry goat
- Brown stew chicken
- Oxtail
- Escovitch fish and steamed fish
- Fish with bammy
- Rice and peas
- Callaloo
- Mannish water and pepper pot soup
- Ital vegetable meals
- Festival, the sweet fried dough served with jerk or fish
- Roasted breadfruit, yam or sweet potato
- Natural fruit juice and coconut water
In Jamaica, "Sunday dinner" usually means a substantial midday meal, not only an evening one. Some restaurants offer Sunday brunch, while small cookshops may close earlier or sell out after the midday rush.
For more places by town and food type, use the Westmoreland directory page or browse the full restaurant directory.
Common questions
Where can I eat in Westmoreland, Jamaica?
Start in Negril for beach and cliff restaurants, such as Miss Lily's and Arthur's Beach Bar & Grill on Seven Mile Beach, and Kool Vybes and Murphy's West End on the West End. Savanna-la-Mar has market cookshops, Hammond's Pastry Place and Fire Station Side Restaurant, while Whitehouse, Little London and Petersfield each have their own picks.
What food is Westmoreland famous for?
Westmoreland is especially associated with jerk and seafood in Negril, the fish and bammy stalls at Whitehouse, and curry and jerk in Petersfield. Ital cooking, cookshop plates in Savanna-la-Mar and farm produce such as ackee, breadfruit and yam round out the parish's food.
Where can I get jerk, seafood or a cheap local meal in Westmoreland?
For jerk, try Kool Vybes on West End Road, Bridgez Jerk and Rest Stop in Savanna-la-Mar, or Cody's Jerk Spot in White House. For seafood, Bleu Koko in White House and Swordfish Resturant Negril are two places to start. Roadside jerk and cookshops are generally more affordable than resort dining, but prices vary, so check before you order.
What is there to eat near the main sights of Westmoreland?
Near Seven Mile Beach, the two picks are Miss Lily's and Best in the West. On the West End cliffs, Xtabi on Lighthouse Road and Ras Rody's Roadside Organic near the lighthouse are the places to start. Near Mayfield Falls in the interior, food is likely to be small local eateries or meals arranged through your tour operator, so plan ahead for that visit.