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.
Cheesecake – a ‘cultural element?’
News to me!