September 15th, 2019
BVI Traveller wanted to give our readers a current update on the status of the restaurants on Tortola including those that reopened and those that still remained closed after Hurricane Irma. Fortunately, many of Tortola’s dining establishments were able to complete their rebuilds and open their doors by late 2017 or early 2018. Others, such as
the Dove in Road Town and Tropical Fusion in Long Bay did not reopen until 2019. Unfortunately a number of them, including De Loose Mongoose, Fish n’ Lime, Tony’s Welcome Bar, The Tamarind Club and The Island Last Resort, still remain closed. The good news for visitors and residents alike is that it looks like most of the restaurants took this opportunity to make a significant upgrade over their establishment’s pre-Irma version.
The next time you visit Tortola, either by land or by sea, check out the following restaurants and bars that are now open. Your taste buds will be rewarded!
Here’s a list of some of the more popular restaurants that are open for business:
See the full list of open restaurants
These restaurants still remain closed:
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter