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DINING
AMOR Y CAFÉ
Lots of homemade foods
including yogurt and
bread make this breakfast
spot the ideal place to
start your day. Enjoy fresh
juices from local fruit.
Front Street
$

PASTA PER CASO
You’ll think you’re in Italy
when you find your way to
this prime spot on Front
Street. It has a great wine
selection and a pizza spin-
off at the Split.

Front Street, Avenida
Hicaco
$$

WISH WILLY BAR & GRILL
Grab a seat and relax
in Maurice’s backyard in warm-water lagoons.
while he fires up the grill. Again, Carson illumi- LOCAL LURE:
The jerk chicken and nates the experience: Caye Caulker taxi service (above),
jerk shrimp — well, jerk “Since they drift where and dish of red snapper and rice
anything! — are worth the the currents carry them, with coleslaw (left)
wait. PHOTOS: © ZHUKOVSKY | DREAMSTIME,
with no power or will to © SANDRAWILLS17 | DREAMSTIME
Park Street oppose that of the sea,
$ this strange community
… are called ‘plankton,’ Caye Caulker has
a word derived from the
Greek, meaning ‘wander- been inhabited for
INFO TO GO ing.’” hundreds of years,
Daily 45-minute water Our last night at
taxis run morning to night Wish Willy Bar & Grill but it is believed
from Belize City, with lingered under the glow
easy connections to the of Christmas lights Yuca 'tan residents
airport and other nearby strung over the backyard
islands and even Mexico. where my toes curled beneath the table in silky sand. Through the reggae I could hear the fleeing the Caste
Everywhere you’ll need to waves nearby. When the cook, Mama Star, recognized us, she brought over two generous W ar of Yuca 'tan in
go on the island is within rum Cokes. “What time ya got?” I tried out my Creole. She just laughed and brought huge
a 15-minute walk. ginger-buttered shrimp and jerk chicken still sizzling from her grill, with blackened yellow 1847 contributed
peppers and plantains on the side.
dubbed herself “a 74-year-old woman living the life of a gypsy.” Belize was her 79th country. to its current
We ended up walking down Front Street with a New Yorker from the next table who
When I asked what she was doing on Caye Caulker, she replied, “Becoming part of the population.
universe,” and wandered into the night.

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