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Boat-watch within a carriage house at The Tempest.
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Reserve an outdoor table at Port O Call, a harbor-facing restaurant on Hamilton’s buzzy Front Street. Start with curried fishcakes ($15) and a Black Beauty cocktail ($12), made with local blackstrap rum, lemon, and muddled fresh blackberries. If spiny lobster is in season (MP, typically between September and March), have yours grilled and accompanied by a bowl of onion soup ($9), made with Bermuda’s signature super-sweet bulbs.
See the tropical side of Southampton at the Tempest, a waterfront spot that opened in a brick-walled carriage house last year. Come for an early dinner so you can ogle the yachts in St. George’s Harbour at sunset, and mingle with Bermuda’s pretty people over cups of potage crecy ($9), a puree of impossibly buttery local carrots, followed by black tiger shrimp and sea scallop bourguignon ($31).
Set a calendar alert for May 29, when Marcus Samuelsson’s as-yet-untitled restaurant will open in the Fairmont. The sharp-dressed, Michelin-starred chef immersed himself in Bermudian culture last summer, when he had a pop-up restaurant on Hamilton Harbour, serving island-inflected soul food. Reserve well in advance to rub elbows with locals over Harlem-meets-Hamilton dishes like blackened rockfish with grits and pepper jam, and jerk pork belly over stewed fava beans.