Plans announced to introduce Restaurant Week initiative in 2025
The BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) has announced plans to launch a new feature, Restaurant Week, as part of the BVI Food Fete 2025.
Speaking at the Food Fete launch on Friday, December 6, Tourism Director Clive McCoy revealed that the initiative would involve local restaurants offering pre-determined menus that celebrate the territory’s culture and cuisine.
“We’re going to now include something we call Restaurant Week, where restaurants will offer a pre-fixed menu for a week in November,” McCoy explained. “You’ll be able to enjoy an appetiser, an entrée, and a dessert at an affordable price.”
McCoy highlighted plans to infuse cultural elements into the event, suggesting dishes like guava berry and cheesecake could be featured. However, he admitted that discussions with restaurants are yet to begin.
“We need to get to work engaging the restaurants and getting them onboard. It’s a lot of work, but I have a very capable events team and Events Manager, Dirk Walters,” McCoy stated.
The initiative aims to boost the hospitality sector during traditionally slower periods.
The BVI Food Fete is an annual celebration featuring events designed to promote the territory’s food industry, including the popular Lobster Fest held in Anegada each November. McCoy emphasised the need for greater involvement from Anegada residents in planning future Lobster Fest events, with follow-up meetings scheduled after this year’s festival, held from November 30 to December 1.
Other highlights of the Food Fete include the Taste of Tortola, where businesses showcase signature dishes from their menus, providing a platform to promote local culinary talent.
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So BVITB has become an expensive version of the Limin Times publication? Where is the f**king National Tourism Plam? What is up with all this low level nonsense disguised as progress? We pay $12mil a year for people to travel all over the world, host parties locally and post bullshit on social media. The board needs to be disbanded and that money allocated annually to physical infrastrucure maintenance.
Ayeee stop the noise and eat your appetising entree for $12m.
Burn’t fish on salad no vinaigrette or source!
I welcome this initiative but it is a shame that he did not ask the restaurants whether they would support it before he announced it. My understanding is that the restaurants in Anegada are no longer going to support Lobster Fest unless the BVITB steps back and lets the restaurants organise it themselves.
Local food has become burgers,wings and pizza. Culture ? Gone.
bvi culture has become Fugazi
Cheesecake – a ‘cultural element?’
News to me!
All prepared and served for $6.50 hourly wage
salmon is the fish of the bvi dont debate me
Salmon is very expensive especially if it is wild caught.
Tourist Board, please include in the Restaurant Week competition, a category for Food Vans and Outdoor Grills. Reason being is that some are very popular and has a large customer base:
*Yo Mama
*Bang It Good
*Panchies
*Busta in East End
*Dareos
Other interesting categories could be the following:
*Foodmarket with the best takeout menu
*Ice Cream Palour
*Smoothies Spot (Shabazz, Nature’s Way)
he needs to check back and see that is exactly what we did to start BVI Food Fete all those years ago, so nothing new whatsoever
“Virgin Islander”, if the cheesecake contains, guava, passionfruit, sousop, sugar apple, or mango flavors, I would agree, that this appetizer, can be culturized!
This is absolutely not a new feature! Restaurant Week and Lobster fest is what started BVI Food Fest to begin with! As far back as 2012. Lynette used to deal with it. Also Rodney and Meslyn. Learn the history before believing the nonsense people tell you.
Why not pay outstanding increments to your education/teaching retirees and struggling coworkers of Governent.
Do we not deserve to eat a good meal or take a nice trip?
Having being robbed of every penny nhe worked for during employment, only to find he had no retirement to receive.
Thisformer employee is in need.Please give those like me our earned increments please!!!
It is just not fair the unjust way you and former governments have been treating us and me, personally and by rogue administrators.