Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Curacao in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Curacao
Willemstad's dining selection includes Caribbean Grill cooking, French cuisine with an Asian inflection and an oceanfront restaurant within a boutique hotel.
Blues Restaurant serves Caribbean Grill cooking in Pietermaai, with an a la carte format, craft cocktails, a beer programme and a standard wine programme. Seaside dining here includes live music and sunset views.
Baoase Luxury Resort is a family-owned property in Willemstad serving French cooking with Asian influences. Guests dine barefoot on its private beach. Its villas have private pools and Balinese influences, and the resort has a private beach cove.
BijBlauw is a boutique hotel in Pietermaai with an oceanfront restaurant and Caribbean Sea views. It occupies restored century-old Dutch colonial buildings, has nine uniquely themed rooms and holds Michelin Selected recognition for 2025.
Willemstad's hotels include a former governor's mansion, restored Dutch colonial buildings and Balinese-inspired villas. Their distinctions recognise heritage, design and hospitality.
Avila Beach Hotel is a beachfront heritage resort in Pietermaai, occupying a former governor's mansion from 1780. Its World Luxury Hotel Awards distinctions recognise Luxury Heritage Resort and Luxury Beachfront Resort, alongside two private beaches and a house reef.
BijBlauw combines restored Dutch colonial buildings in Pietermaai with nine uniquely themed rooms and an oceanfront restaurant. The boutique hotel's Caribbean Sea views sit alongside Michelin Selected recognition for its design and hospitality quality.
Baoase Luxury Resort in Willemstad combines Balinese-inspired private pool villas with a private beach cove. The family-owned resort holds World Luxury Hotel Awards Global Winner recognition for Luxury Boutique Resort, and serves French cuisine with an Asian inflection.
The guide's Curacao and Willemstad selections include beachfront hotels and private villas. The Papagayo properties in Jan Thiel both hold World Luxury Hotel Awards Regional Winner recognition.
Papagayo Beach Hotel & Resort is a beachfront hotel in Jan Thiel with an infinity pool and direct beach access. It holds World Luxury Hotel Awards Regional Winner recognition for Luxury Beach Hotel in 2025.
Papagayo Beach Resort in Jan Thiel has private villas, modern Dutch design and a saltwater infinity pool. The beachfront property holds World Luxury Hotel Awards Regional Winner recognition in the Luxury Beach Hotel category.
Avila Beach Hotel in Pietermaai has two private beaches and a house reef for snorkelling. The heritage resort holds World Luxury Hotel Awards Continent Winner recognition for Luxury Beachfront Resort and Regional Winner recognition for Luxury Heritage Resort.
Willemstad has 5 venues in our Curacao guide. Its selection of venues comprises Blues Restaurant and the hotels Baoase Luxury Resort, Papagayo Beach Hotel & Resort, Avila Beach Hotel and BijBlauw.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide across the cities covered in Curacao. BijBlauw holds Michelin Selected recognition for 2025 as a hotel, with recognition for design and hospitality quality.
Pietermaai contains Blues Restaurant and BijBlauw's oceanfront restaurant. Blues Restaurant serves Caribbean Grill cooking with an a la carte format, craft cocktails and a beer programme, alongside live music and sunset views. BijBlauw combines its restaurant with a boutique hotel in restored Dutch colonial buildings.
Blues Restaurant has a standard wine programme, craft cocktails and a beer programme. The restaurant's drinks offering includes both wine and beer, as well as craft cocktails alongside its standard wine programme.
Baoase Luxury Resort, Papagayo Beach Hotel & Resort, Avila Beach Hotel and Papagayo Beach Resort hold World Luxury Hotel Awards distinctions. Baoase's recognition includes Luxury Boutique Resort, Avila's covers Luxury Heritage Resort and Luxury Beachfront Resort, and both Papagayo properties have Luxury Beach Hotel recognition.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Curacao
Selected entries from the current guide for Curacao.
Willemstad, Curacao
Blues Restaurant sits in Willemstad’s Penstraat corridor, a coastal stretch where hotel dining, terrace tables, and sea-facing rooms shape the evening rhythm. With no public awards, chef listing, or price band attached, it reads less as a trophy booking than as part of Curaçao’s waterfront dining culture, where sourcing, catch-of-the-day habits, and island supply lines matter as much as formality.
Curacao
Selected entries from the current guide for Curacao.
Willemstad, Curacao
A family-owned, 23-key property on Curaçao's southern coast, Baoase Luxury Resort holds Global Winner status for Luxury Boutique Resort and ranked ninth in Condé Nast's Best Resorts list for 2025. The dining programme centres on French cuisine with an Asian inflection, served barefoot on a private beach. A private island, house yacht, and aloe vera spa round out an offer pitched firmly at small-group seclusion.
Willemstad, Curacao
A double-awarded heritage property on Willemstad's Penstraat, Avila Beach Hotel holds both the Regional Winner title for Luxury Heritage Resort and the Continent Winner designation for Luxury Beachfront Resort. For travellers choosing between heritage character and contemporary design, this is the clearest case for the former.
Willemstad, Curacao
BijBlauw holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction in Willemstad, placing it among a small tier of Curaçao properties recognised for design and hospitality quality. Located at 82-84 Kaya Wilson Godett, the hotel occupies a position in the city's character-driven accommodation market, where colonial-era architecture and Caribbean colour define the spatial identity of the better properties.
Willemstad, Curacao
Papagayo Beach Hotel & Resort sits on the calm southern coast of Curaçao at Jan Thiel, where the Caribbean meets a more considered approach to beach hospitality. A Regional Winner for Luxury Beach Hotel, the property operates in a tier defined by personalised service and direct seafront access rather than resort scale. For travellers arriving in Willemstad with proximity to the water as a priority, Jan Thiel positions this property well outside the city's historic centre bustle.
Willemstad, Curacao
A Regional Winner in the Luxury Beach Hotel category, Papagayo Beach Resort sits on Curacao's southern coast in Willemstad, positioning itself within the island's upper tier of design-led beach properties. The resort draws guests looking for direct water access, architectural character, and the kind of Caribbean setting that rewards slower, more considered stays over high-volume resort programming.
Curacao
Selected entries from the current guide for Curacao.
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Curacao
Selected entries from the current guide for Curacao.
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