Peter Island Resort on Peter Island in the BVI

As Peter Island Resort is the sole occupant of its island, all dining choices are in-house. Fortunately, its restaurants are quite good. Meals but not alcoholic drinks are included in room rates.

The resort’s fancier dining venue, Tradewinds, is enclosed and air-conditioned on warm nights and open to the Caribbean’s steady-but-gentle tradewinds on breezy evenings.

The menu covers bistro and Asian-Caribbean cuisine. Best bet: fresh-caught seafood nicely prepared with tropical coconut or mango.

Tradewinds’ intimate wine cellar can serve as a private dining room for wedding parties. Couples may savor its weekly Vintner's Dinner with dishes like grilled lobster served with a well-matched wine.

Tradewinds also houses the resort’s daily English tea hour and delicious buffet breakfast.

Lunch is served at the casual, picturesque Deadman’s Bar & Grill set right on the beach. It offers both a la carte selections of burgers, ribs, and salads as well as a buffet of tasty island fare like jerk pork and seafood salad.

A couple of bars at the resort offer beer (Red Stripe from Jamaica is good) and cocktails. Two must-tries are made with the BVI’s famous British navy rum, Pusser’s: the pina colada-like Painkiller and “grog,” rum with fresh lime juice and sugar.

The resort’s many gestures to honeymoon couples and other romantics include “White Bay picnic lunch,” a gourmet feast delivered to snugglers on the island’s secluded White Bay Beach.