Tobago - beach food, sun and fun in the sand

The beautiful Store Bay, Tobago. Good food, sun, fun in the sand.

Store Bay, Tobago

The food stalls in Store Bay are known for their delicious home-cooked local cuisine.

Callaloo is a complex dish composed of dasheen bush (taro) leaves, ochre, pumpkin, seasonings like onions, garlic, black pepper, hot pepper and flavourings e.g. pig tail or salt pork, crab, coconut milk. It is eaten with rice or with ground provisions.

Callaloo

Chicken and pigeon peas pelau. A definite accommodation of the Spanish Pilaf, the pelau in Tobago is made with fresh pigeon peas.

Chicken and pigeon peas pelau

Stewed pork with rice is a staple in certain months of the year in Tobago

Stewed pork served over plain white rice

Breadfruit or jackfruit

Oil-down and pig tail made by boiling breadfruit in coconut milk and seasoned pig tails.

Boiled ground provisions are an important part of the trinbagonian diet. These are root vegetables and include cassava, sweet potato, dasheen, tania, and yam. Boiled green bananas (fig as we call it) and plantains sometimes are offered together with boiled ground provisions.