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Bedarras Ocean Terrace Restaurant
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Sunset Strip
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Ph: 650 0476
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"Overlooking a lush tropical garden surrounding a swimming pool, the veranda of the Bedarra Inn Fiji is the most romantic place to dine here. The menu offers an uninspired but varied selection, including tender steaks under peppercorn or red wine sauce, fresh local fish panfried with lemon caper sauce, crumbed veal slices topped with asparagus, a vegetarian pasta, and a spicy version of spaghetti carbonara. You can also try Fijian dishes such as palusami and Ika Vakalolo (fish poached in coconut milk)."
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Vilisite's Seafood Restaurant
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queen's road
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Ph: 653 0054
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"Vilisite (sounds like "Felicity"), a friendly Fijian who lived in Australia, operates one of the few places in Fiji where you can dine right by the lagoon's edge. Come in time for a sunset drink and bring a camera, for the westward view from Vilisite's veranda belongs on a postcard. Her well-prepared cuisine is predominately fresh local seafood -- fish, shrimp, lobster, octopus -- in curry, garlic, and butter, or coconut milk (the Fijian way). She offers only five full seafood meals at dinner, or you can choose from chop suey, curry, shrimp, or fish and chips. Vilisite will arrange rides for dinner parties of four or more from as far away as the Outrigger on the Lagoon Fiji, but be sure to ask about the cost. You won't soon forget the view or this extraordinarily friendly Fijian, who certainly knows how to cook."
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Continental Cakes & Pizza
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Queen's Rd.
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Ph: 670 3595
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"This store-front bakery isn't much to look at, but it supplies the major hotels with bread, cakes, and pastries. It's my favorite place in town for a morning coffee and one of the crispiest croissants in the South Pacific (and that includes Tahiti). Later on you can order thin-crust pizzas and made-to-order submarine sandwiches on fresh bread. For an afternoon sugar high, try a slice of German black forest cake."
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Corner cafe
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Queen's Rd
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Ph: 670 3131
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"One of chef Eugene Gomes's operations, this pleasant cafeteria is my favorite place to stop for a snack, an ice cream, or a quick lunch in Nadi Town. The cafeteria menu is varied: pastries and coffee (you can get a latte here), hot dogs and hamburgers, sandwiches and salads, roast chicken, and fish and chips. I love the luscious creamy Thai curry chicken. You can also order from the adjacent Saffron's menu ."
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Gecko's Restaurant
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queens rd
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Ph: 652 0200
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"Occupying the veranda of one of the Western-style buildings at The Kalevu Cultural Museum, this pleasant restaurant offers a more affordable if not-as-good alternative to the dining rooms at Shangri-La's Fijian Resort across the Queen's Road. You can have a breakfast of omelets and other egg dishes all day here. Lunch features a choice of sandwiches, burgers, fish and chips, curry, stir-fries, and other local favorites. Dinner sees a wide-ranging menu, which includes the house specialty, mud crabs with coconut cream, chili, or Chinese-style black bean. There are Fijian meke shows here every night "
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Mama's Pizza Inn
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Queen's Rd.
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Ph: 672 0922
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"If you need a tomato sauce fix, follow the aroma of garlic to Robin O'Donnell's establishment. Her wood-fired pizzas range from a small plain model to a large deluxe version with all the toppings. Just remember that this is Nadi, not New York or Naples, so adjust your expectations accordingly. She also has spaghetti with tomato-and-meat sauce, lasagna, and fresh salads. There's a suburban Mama's in the Colonial Plaza shopping mall on the Queen's Road north of Martintar "
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Piranha's Restaurant & Bar
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Queens' Rd
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Ph: 672 8051
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"You can dine in cool comfort inside Pradeep and Lenoma Singh's urbane restaurant, but their best tables are outside in the gardens or on the covered patio. The menu ranges widely from New Zealand rack of lamb to local snapper baked with coconut milk and chili in banana leaves. Locals love the barbecued baby back ribs, although I found them to taste a bit "porky." Vegetarians have four main course choices here. The attentive service is among the best in Fiji."
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Saffron
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Queen's Rd.
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Ph: 670 1233
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"Sharing quarters in Jack's Handicrafts with the Corner Cafe , this is executive chef Eugene Gomes's ode to the tandoori cooking of northern India and Pakistan, although his menu also features a number of vegetarian and other dishes from around the subcontinent. Punjabi chicken tikka is always popular, the butter chicken curry. You'll be greeted with a complimentary basket of crispy papadam chips with dipping sauce (an Indian version of Mexican tortilla chips and salsa). "
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The Edge
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Sagayam Rd
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Ph: 670 3131
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"Chef Eugene Gomes's third dining establishment, this air-conditioned cafe offers a variety of hamburgers, and many of the same Asian stir-fries and Thai curries offered at The Corner, but here they are served at your table. The menu also features a few simple but tasty selections, such as seafood lasagna, chicken enchiladas, and stir-fried beef. Cool and casual, The Edge is a fine place to take a shopping break over a cup of cappuccino, espresso, or herbal tea."
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Coconut Grove Restaurant
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Matei , Taveuni
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Ph: 888 0328
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"American Ronna Goldstein offers a variety of fare at her little enclave, where she also rents cottages. She offers breakfasts (her banana and papaya breads are fabulous) and salads, soups, burgers, sandwiches, and grilled lamb chops for lunch. Dinner sees a variety of local seafood dishes, spicy Thai and mild Fijian curries (I love the Thai fish), and homemade pastas. Friday night sees a buffet and Fijian musicians. Dining is on Ronna's veranda, which has a great view of the little islands off Taveuni, making it a fine place not just for lunch or dinner but to sip a great fruit shake or juice while waiting for your flight."
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Tramontu Bar & Grill
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Matei , taveuni
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Ph: 888 2224
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"The best thing about this open-air, Fijian-owned cafe is its spectacular perch atop a cliff overlooking the Somosomo Strait. The local fare consists of the usual curries, grilled steaks, chicken stir-fries, and lobster and shrimp (the latter only when available, and then only by reservation). Dine here or not, it's a great place to take in the sunset view over a cold beer or glass of wine (no mixed drinks are served)."
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Vunibokoi Restaurant
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Matei , Taveuni
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Ph: 888 0560
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"On the front porch of the main house at Alan Petersen's Tovu Tovu Resort, this plain but pleasant restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with a blackboard menu that features home-cooked Fijian, Indian, and Western fare. There's a Wednesday night buffet of Fijian lovo food, followed by live music. Sunday is roast night."
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Cardo's Steakhouse & Bar
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Port Denarau Marina
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Ph: 992 6460
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"Although it may relocate into a shopping complex being developed at the marina, this restaurant in a colonial-style building beside the narrow, muddy waterway at Port Denarau is the best place outside the resorts to dine with a view. Choice tables on the wraparound porch offer a view across the water and cane fields to the green mountains rising beyond. This vista is especially gorgeous on a moonlit night, but bring insect repellent. Owner Cardo is known throughout Fiji for providing quality chargrilled steaks and fish, and they're his best offerings here. This is a pleasant spot to breakfast before a cruise or a hair-raising ride on a Jet Fiji, or to chill afterwards."
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Whale's Tale Restaurant
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Beach St
Levuka & Ovalau
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Ph: 344 0235
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"Australian Julia Ditrich, daughter Liza, and their Fijian partner Susana Rakala renovated one of Beach Street's old storefronts and opened this cramped but pleasant eatery. You can get a late breakfast or a lunch from a menu of sandwiches, burgers, omelets, quiches, and daily specials. At night they put cloths on the tables and offer three-course meals from a chalkboard menu, which always includes a vegetarian selection."
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Hare Krishna Restaurant
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16 Pratt St
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Ph: 331 4154
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"This clean, casual restaurant specializes in a wide range of very good vegetarian curries -- eggplant, cabbage, potatoes and peas, okra, and papaya to name a few -- each seasoned delicately and differently from the others. Interesting pastries, breads, side dishes, and salads (such as cucumbers and carrots in yogurt) cool off the fire set by some of the curries. The items are displayed cafeteria-style near the entrance to the second-floor dining room, or get the all-you-can-eat thali sampler and try a little of everything. Downstairs has an excellent yogurt and ice cream bar; climb the spiral stairs to reach the dining room. The Hare Krishnas allow no alcoholic beverages or smoking."
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JJ's on the Park
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Stinson Parade
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Ph: 330 5005
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"On the harbor side of JJ's hotel, this lively bistro sports a Southwestern adobe theme, although a quesadilla here is less likely to be Tex-Mex than of the chicken curry variety. Better bets are substantial servings of fish and chips, burgers, salads, steaks, and rack of lamb. At dinner check the specials board for the fresh fish of the day. The bar here is a good place to slake a thirst during your walking tour of Suva"
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L'Opera Ristorante Italiano
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At Kimberly St
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Ph: 331 8602
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"Don't be turned off by the location next to a karaoke bar, for a long paneled corridor hung with historic photographs will lead you to this elegant restaurant and Suva's most refined dining. The chef frequently changes his menu, which ranges up and down the Italian "boot" but always reflects his Tuscan birthplace. Dinners are served in true Italian fashion, beginning with an apertivo drink, followed in order by antipasto, pasta, and a fish or meat secondi (main course). The weekday fixed price lunch is good value at F$22 (US$13). There's an extensive Sunday brunch here."
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Malt House Brewery & Restaurant
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88 Jerusalem Rd
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Ph: 337 1515
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"Paul and Noeleene Roadley's microbrewery is a South Seas version of a German beer hall, but if you don't mind the noise, you're in for some of Suva's best fare. Stop first at the bar, where the tender will offer small tastes to help you decide among the lager, ale, and dark beers. You'll have lots of company because the Malt House is popular among the capital's movers and shakers. Romantic dining is out of the question here, but the noise shouldn't distract from sautéed pakapaka (snapper), beef schnitzel, and fish and chips with either tempura or herb-crumbed breading. The excellent wood-fired pizzas are large enough to feed two persons, and the salads are dinner-size, too."
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Old Mill Cottage
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Near corner of Loftus St
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Ph: 331 2134
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"One of the few remaining late-19th-century homes left in Suva's diplomatic-government section, these adjoining two-room clapboard cottages offer some of the most extraordinary home cooking in the South Pacific. You'll order at the cafeteria-like counters, one for breakfast, one for lunch. You'll have a choice of daily specials such as Fijian palusami, mild Indian curries, or European-style mustard-baked chicken with real mashed potatoes and peas. The vegetable plate is good value, since you can pick and choose from more than a dozen European, Fijian, and Indian selections. Diplomats (the U.S. Embassy is out the back door) and government executives pack the place at midday."
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Republic of Cappuccino
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victoria parade
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Ph: 330 0333
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" "The Rock" to trendy locals, this Starbucks-style coffee shop (the U.S. chain hasn't arrived yet) occupies the triangular corner of FNPF Place, on the Victoria Parade side of Dolphins Food Court. You can listen to recorded jazz while drinking your latte or cappuccino (made with strong, Fiji-grown beans) and eating your brownie, cake, or quiche at the tall tables by the big storefront windows. A second Suva location, on Renwick Road at Pratt Street (tel. 330 0082), near the Fiji Visitors Bureau, has wireless Internet access for your laptop."
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Tiko's Floating Restaurant
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Stinson Parade at Sukuna Par
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Ph: 331 3626
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"Locals like to take out-of-town guests to this floating restaurant, which served years ago with Blue Lagoon Cruises. One hopes they don't lean to seasickness, for the old craft does tend to roll a bit when freighters kick up a wake going in and out of the harbor. Your best bets are the nightly seafood specials, such as walu (Spanish mackerel) and pakapaka (snapper). It's not the best in town, but the fish is fresh, the service is attentive, and a terrific musician-singer usually provides dinner music -- all of which makes for a pleasant night out."
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