Boucan

Boucan is the cacao-infused dining room of Hotel Chocolat — a luxury boutique hotel built on the original Hotel Chocolat cacao plantation in Soufrière, owned by the British Hotel-Chocolat-Group — and is one of the most distinctive contemporary Caribbean dining concepts. The restaurant runs a cacao-infused menu with a spectacular view of the Pitons.

The cuisine is cacao-infused contemporary Caribbean. The five-course cacao tasting rotates seasonally; signatures include a cacao-cured Caribbean tuna tartare; a slow-cooked Caribbean lamb shoulder with cacao-and-West-Indian-spice rub; a Caribbean-lobster bisque with chocolate-rum reduction; a wood-fired Caribbean snapper with cacao-pepper crust; the famous 'single-origin Saint-Lucian cacao tasting' for the dessert course (a deliberately educational programme that walks the diner through the regional cacao-bean tasting).

The wine list runs to 250 references with French Champagne and Burgundy coverage. The cocktail bar runs a serious cacao-cocktail programme.

The dining room and Pitons-view terrace together hold seventy-two covers. Service is hotel-grade.

Boucan at Hotel Chocolat is the proposal-grade table in Saint Lucia when the brief is genuinely distinctive. The cacao-infused Caribbean cooking concept is unique, the Pitons view is the conversation, and the dinner-and-stay format at Hotel Chocolat means the entire trip is easy to arrange.