About Basil's Bar
Basil's Bar has been the cultural heartbeat of Mustique for nearly fifty years — opened in 1976 by Basil Charles (a St-Vincent-born hotelier who arrived on Mustique in the early 1970s) on Britannia Bay, the island's southwestern beach quarter — and is the institutional luxury Caribbean beachfront-bar experience. The bar was redesigned in 2017 by Philippe Starck (the celebrated French designer) but retained its laidback beach-bar character. Lunches overlooking the sea, sunset beers, or cocktails between dances at Jump Up — the canonical Wednesday-night party that has run weekly since the 1970s.
The cuisine is contemporary Caribbean. Signatures include a Caribbean-lobster salad; a slow-cooked Caribbean goat curry with West-Indian spices; a wood-fired Caribbean snapper with samphire; a hand-cut Caribbean tuna tartare with passionfruit; the famous 'rum cake' for the dessert course.
The bar holds one of the largest collections of native Caribbean rums in the region — 200-plus bottlings across the West Indies. The cocktail menu is genuinely innovative; an impressive range of cigars completes the after-dinner programme.
The dining room and Britannia Bay terrace together hold ninety-six covers. Wednesday night is the famous Jump Up — dinner from 6pm and the Splash band performing from 21:30. Service is family-run.
Why It's Perfect for Birthday
Basil's Bar is the birthday-night room in Mustique — the fifty-year institutional history is the conversation, the Britannia Bay beach setting is the canonical Caribbean-luxury experience, and the Wednesday-night Jump Up is one of the great recurring social events anywhere in the Caribbean. Book Wednesday evening for the Jump Up.
Community Reviews
Share your experience at Basil's Bar, vote on the best occasion, and join the community of occasion-driven diners.
Sign In or Register