Brown Sugar, in the Aquatic Gap area between the city centre and the Garrison, is probably the best-known local restaurant in Bridgetown, and it has been for decades. It occupies a converted traditional wooden house — the kind with a wrap-around verandah and louvred shutters — and serves what Barbadians think of as proper Bajan food: cou-cou and flying fish, pepperpot stew, rice and peas, and a buffet lunch that is famous on the island.
The lunch buffet is the thing to book. It runs on weekdays and draws a mixed crowd of tourists, local businesspeople, and Bajan expats back on visits who want the food they grew up with. Prices are higher than a Cheapside lunch counter but still reasonable, and the cooking is reliably good. Dinner is more formal and more expensive. Book ahead for the buffet — it fills up.