Veranda

Veranda is the flagship dining room of The Cotton House — Mustique's only hotel, opened in 1969 in a converted 18th-century cotton-warehouse and continuously operated as the island's institutional luxury hotel since — and is one of the most architecturally distinctive Caribbean hotel restaurants. The dining room sits on the original 18th-century stone-built veranda overlooking the Endeavour Bay garden.

The cuisine is sophisticated sharing plates and flame-grilled mains. Signatures include a Caribbean-lobster sharing platter; a flame-grilled Wagyu T-bone for the table; a hand-cut Caribbean tuna tartare; a slow-cooked Caribbean goat with West-Indian spices; the famous 'tropical fruit pavlova' for the dessert course.

The wine list runs to 500 references with deep French Champagne and Burgundy coverage and a respectable comparative-Caribbean rum section.

The dining room and outdoor garden together hold sixty covers. Service is hotel-grade.

Veranda is the proposal-grade table in Mustique — the 18th-century cotton-warehouse setting is the conversation, the Cotton House pedigree settles the institutional question, and the dinner-and-stay format means the entire trip is easy to arrange. Book the corner two-top.