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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Bahamas in the En Primeur Club guide.

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Bahamas luxury dining and travel destination
Nassau accounts for 58 of the 82 venues across 14 cities in our Bahamas guide. Wine dining spans mansion cellars and resort restaurants: Graycliff Restaurant in Downtown has particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Champagne, alongside French-Bahamian cuisine. In Baha Mar, French dining includes tasting menu and prix fixe formats at Cafe Boulud Bahamas, with Bahamian seafood influences and a sommelier-led wine program. Chinese dining in the same neighbourhood includes Shuang Ba's wine list weighted toward France. On Paradise Island, restaurant formats include a la carte steakhouse dining and French-Asian prix fixe menus. Cocktails extend beyond resort dining rooms into Sandyport, where Bon Vivants serves classic and craft cocktails, low-alcohol drinks and alcohol-free options. Downtown Nassau has working rum production at John Watling's Distillery, within the Buena Vista Estate. Outside Nassau, dining in Gregory Town includes Asian-inspired seafood and sushi, while The Cove Eleuthera serves Bahamian seafood with a wine list and small plates.

Wine-led restaurants and cellar-first rooms

These Nassau rooms lead with wine, with cellar depth and award-recognised programs shaping the meal.

  • Graycliff Restaurant

    Graycliff Restaurant in Downtown sits in an 18th-century mansion with the world's third largest private wine cellar. Its 279,350 bottles across 5,575 selections, with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Champagne, place it among one of the Caribbean's most serious wine programs, and it holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award.

  • Seafire Steakhouse

    Seafire Steakhouse on Paradise Island in Nassau sits inside the Atlantis resort on the casino strip, with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails. It is an American steakhouse and chophouse, and the service is a la carte.

  • Cafe Boulud Bahamas

    Cafe Boulud Bahamas at Baha Mar is a refined French room with a tasting menu and prix fixe format. Its wine program is recognised by Star Wine List’s White Star designation, which places it among Nassau’s more formal resort dining choices.

  • Shuang Ba

    Shuang Ba in Baha Mar brings fine Chinese cuisine in a dinner format. The restaurant has private dining rooms, and the kitchen is under chef Marcus Samuelsson, with Dante Ortiz as wine director. Its 360-bottle wine list is weighted toward France, and it holds Wine Spectator Award of Excellence honours for 2025 and 2026.

Resort dining with structured formats

Baha Mar and Paradise Island hold resort dining rooms with formats that range from prix fixe to small plates and a la carte service.

  • Dune

    Dune on Paradise Island brings French-Asian fusion with Bahamian influences to a bluffside resort setting. The room offers a la carte and prix fixe service with a wine list, placing it firmly in Nassau’s polished resort dining circuit.

  • Cleo Baha Mar

    Cleo Baha Mar in Baha Mar is a Modern Mediterranean room with an open kitchen in the lobby area. Its buffet, small plates, and a la carte formats sit within the Baha Mar resort complex, with craft cocktails and a beer program.

  • Nobu

    Nobu on Paradise Island brings Japanese-Peruvian fusion to Nassau's resort corridor with a sake program and craft cocktails. The room uses a la carte and small plates service, and it sits at the upper end of the island's dining tier.

Downtown Nassau and East Bay Street

Downtown Nassau and East Bay Street hold several drinking and dining rooms, with waterfront grills, cellar bars, and heritage dining rooms.

  • Café Matisse

    Café Matisse in Downtown sits in a heritage building that was once a library or firehouse, with a wine list and a la carte service. Its position a quiet lane steps from the British Colonial core keeps it removed from the cruise-ship circuit.

  • Lukka Kairi

    Lukka Kairi in Downtown Nassau is a contemporary Bahamian waterfront grill and bar at Prince George Wharf on Bay Street. The pier sits in Nassau Harbour. The building was constructed for Never Say Never Again, a James Bond film from 1983. Service is a la carte, with craft cocktails.

  • John Watling's Distillery

    John Watling's Distillery in Downtown Nassau sits in the 1789 Buena Vista Estate with working rum production and harbour views. The distillery's copper stills stand within colonial-era architecture, and it serves rum and craft cocktails.

  • Syrah

    Syrah on East Bay Street serves Mediterranean small plates with a wine list and craft cocktails. Its dining room is surrounded by wine bottles, with live music and an outdoor patio beneath a cotton tree.

Out Islands and quieter luxury stays

The Cove Eleuthera and Freedom Restaurant & Sushi Bar in Gregory Town hold Relais Chateaux Awards. The Potlatch Club Boutique Hotel in Governor's Harbour and Caerula Mar Club in Driggs Hill, South Andros hold Michelin Keys.

  • The Cove Eleuthera

    The Cove Eleuthera in Gregory Town is a resort restaurant built around Asian-inspired tropical cuisine and Bahamian seafood. It holds a wine list and a Relais Chateaux Award, with an oceanfront setting that places dining inside the wider resort experience.

  • Freedom Restaurant & Sushi Bar

    Freedom Restaurant & Sushi Bar in Gregory Town serves Asian-inspired seafood and sushi in an oceanfront resort setting. Service is a la carte, and the restaurant holds Relais Chateaux Awards for 2025 and 2026.

  • The Potlatch Club Boutique Hotel

    The Potlatch Club Boutique Hotel in Governor's Harbour combines 11 suites, cottages, and villas with a pink sand beachfront, and the Fig Tree restaurant is in the hotel. It holds a Michelin 1 Key for 2026, an AFAR Best New Hotels award, and an Esquire Best New Hotels award.

  • Caerula Mar Club

    Caerula Mar Club in Driggs Hill, South Andros occupies ten secluded oceanfront acres with a white sand beach. The resort holds a Michelin 1 Key and a Mr & Mrs Smith Smith Seal of Approval, and has three dining concepts.

Planning FAQ

Which part of the Bahamas has the strongest wine and dining scene?

Nassau has the largest concentration of venues in our Bahamas guide, including 37 restaurants, 8 bars and 13 hotels. Its restaurants include tasting-menu and prix fixe dining at Cafe Boulud Bahamas in Baha Mar.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in the Bahamas in your guide?

The Bahamas has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. The Michelin restaurant counts cover all the cities included in the Bahamas guide, with no restaurant stars across Nassau, Dunmore Town, New Providence or Gregory Town.

Where should I go for the best wine lists?

Downtown Nassau, Baha Mar, and Paradise Island hold the strongest wine-led rooms. Graycliff Restaurant has a vast cellar, while Cafe Boulud Bahamas, Shuang Ba, Seafire Steakhouse, and Dune give Nassau several serious list-driven options in our guide.

Which venues in the Bahamas hold Wine Spectator awards?

Graycliff Restaurant holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award. Shuang Ba holds the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2025 and 2026, and both venues are in Nassau in our guide.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

Bahamas

Where to eat in Bahamas

Selected entries from the current guide for Bahamas.

JWB Prime Steak and Seafood restaurant in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

JWB Prime Steak and Seafood

JWB Prime Steak and Seafood at One Particular Harbour puts Nassau's dual identity on a single plate: serious cuts and Caribbean-sourced seafood in a harbour-facing setting that anchors the property's dining offer. Among Nassau's upper tier of destination restaurants, it occupies the steak-and-seafood format that few others in the city address with comparable intent. Guests planning an evening here should expect a setting tied directly to the water.

Nassau, Bahamas

Bahamas

Where to stay in Bahamas

Selected entries from the current guide for Bahamas.

Goldwynn Resort & Residences hotel in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

Goldwynn Resort & Residences

A dual award-winner for Luxury Boutique Resort and Luxury Boutique Hotel, Goldwynn Resort & Residences sits directly on Cable Beach at 340 W Bay St, Nassau, where studios and suites blend contemporary glamour with deliberate nods to the golden age of travel. The centrepiece infinity pool, ocean-facing cabanas, and attentive personal service position it within Nassau's smaller, design-led accommodation tier rather than the large-footprint resort bracket.

Nassau, Bahamas
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas hotel in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas

Positioned on Paradise Island's north shore, The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas occupies one of the Caribbean's most storied stretches of beachfront. The property won the 2025 World Travel Award for Bahamas' Leading Luxury Hotel Villa, and its location on a barrier island connected to Nassau by bridge places it within easy reach of colonial heritage, duty-free commerce, and casino culture without sacrificing seclusion.

Nassau, Bahamas
Harborside Resort at Atlantis Paradise Island hotel in Paradise Island

Paradise Island, Bahamas

Harborside Resort at Atlantis Paradise Island

Harborside Resort at Atlantis Paradise Island positions itself in the villa-resort tier of Bahamian hospitality, earning the 2025 World Travel Award for Bahamas' Leading Villa Resort. The property sits within the broader Atlantis complex on Paradise Island, giving guests access to large-scale amenities alongside the more residential pace of villa-format accommodation. It suits travellers who want space and self-sufficiency without sacrificing resort infrastructure.

Paradise Island, Bahamas
Kamalame Cay hotel in Staniard Creek

Staniard Creek, Bahamas

Kamalame Cay

On a private island off Andros, Kamalame Cay sits within a 96-acre coral reef preserve and earned 93.5 points on the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels list. The property operates in the low-key, low-density register that defines serious Caribbean escape: limited accommodation, deep water access, and a design sensibility drawn from the natural materials of the surrounding cays. It belongs to a small peer group of Bahamian properties where the architecture does the talking.

Staniard Creek, Bahamas
SLS Baha Mar hotel in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

SLS Baha Mar

SLS Baha Mar brings the brand's signature blend of South Beach glamour and design-forward sensibility to Cable Beach, Nassau, operating within the larger Baha Mar resort complex. Rooms are conceived for guests who treat the stay itself as an event, with amenities and shared facilities that position SLS between the Baha Mar campus's more traditional luxury tier and its design-conscious upper bracket. Booking lead times track closely with Nassau's peak winter season.

Nassau, Bahamas
The Reef at Atlantis hotel in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

The Reef at Atlantis

The Reef at Atlantis occupies the apartment-style tier of Paradise Island's flagship resort, offering renovated oceanfront suites with residential proportions and direct access to Atlantis's 141-acre waterscape, five miles of beach, and a roster of celebrity-chef restaurants. For families or extended-stay travellers who want suite-format space without stepping outside the Atlantis ecosystem, it sits at a distinct position within the property's accommodation range.

Nassau, Bahamas
Tiamo Resort hotel in South Andros Island

South Andros Island, Bahamas

Tiamo Resort

Tiamo Resort sits in the Driggs Hill area of South Andros Island, placing it among the Bahamas' most remote and ecologically intact corners. It operates at the quieter, off-grid end of the archipelago's accommodation spectrum, far from the casino-resort corridor of Nassau and Cable Beach, and closer in spirit to properties like Caerula Mar Club in the same community. For travellers whose priority is seclusion over spectacle, Andros delivers in a way that Nassau's main island simply cannot.

South Andros Island, Bahamas

Bahamas

Where to go for a drink in Bahamas

Selected entries from the current guide for Bahamas.

Chat 'N' Chill Beach Bar & Grill bar in Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

Chat 'N' Chill Beach Bar & Grill

Chat 'N' Chill Beach Bar & Grill sits on Stocking Island across the harbour from George Town, accessible only by water taxi and operating as one of the Exumas' most recognisable beach bars. The bar-forward, sand-floored setup draws both long-haul sailors and day visitors seeking cold drinks and grilled food in a genuinely remote setting. It represents a specific strand of Bahamian beach culture that few spots in the Out Islands replicate with the same consistency.

Nassau, Bahamas

Bahamas

Which wineries to visit in Bahamas

Selected entries from the current guide for Bahamas.

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