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March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

Somewhere Café & Lounge, Providenciales, T&C

Several years ago during a week vacation on Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, we arrived at our accommodations close to Grace Bay Beach. Upon check-in, we asked if there were any good restaurants or beach bars close by. The lady said, “You’re in luck. Somewhere is just around the corner!” Hmmm? Somewhere? Sensing our confusion, she went on to tell us that ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge was a popular restaurant and a beach bar and was just steps away from where we were staying.

We were grateful for her recommendation and ended up enjoying our time at ‘Somewhere’ so much that we visited three times that week!

*This post is sponsored by ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge, but any reviews and opinions expressed in this post are ours based on our experience there.

‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge is a beachfront two-story, open-air cafe and lounge in Providenciales that offers an oasis of casual sophistication. Although they specialize in Tex Mex cuisine, they also offer an assortment of BBQ dishes, salads, sandwiches, hamburgers and tasty drinks. Somewhere is located on beautiful Grace Bay Beach at the Coral Gardens Resort. The water here is a great for snorkeling, the beach is stunning and you are sure to catch an amazing sunsets. Find a map here.

The ‘Somewhere’ team is comprised of owner Luis Fabara, executive chef and director Amy Fabara and managing director Ted Bayley. The name for their beachfront establishment originated from an article Luis came across while traveling on beach bars of the world. At the end the article it stated that “you will always find a cool beach bar Somewhere…”. ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge opened on New Years Eve, 11 years ago.

‘Somewhere’ is perfect for drinks and apps at the bar in swimwear with a cover-up or to enjoy a lovely relaxed meal on the beach. Listen to live music on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 6:30-9:00pm, and on Sunday afternoon there is a DJ from 2:00-5:00p.m. Be sure to check the website for event updates.

So what makes ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge a place to visit and enjoy while in Providenciales? Here are a few of our favorite reasons!

View

Whether visiting during the day or in the evening, you are sure to be treated to an absolutely amazing view of the turquoise blue water, white sand beach and vibrant sunsets.

Food

From tacos to the fresh fish of the day, there is something delectable on the menu for everyone! Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Check out the lunch/dinner menu here.

Drink

Thirsty after a day on the beach? Try one of ‘Somewhere’s’ mouthwatering margaritas, or for rum lovers – a Bambarra Rum Punch or Mickey’s Banana Rum Punch. They also offer a variety of tequila’s and wine.

Ambiance

The casual beach front location is perfect for enjoying a relaxing meal with your friends & family while enjoying the stunning beauty of Turks & Caicos.

Wouldn’t you rather be ‘Somewhere’?!

Want to find out more about ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge? Check them out here:

‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge Website and
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

All photos provided by ‘Somewhere’ Café and Lounge.

July 2, 2016June 24, 2021

Da Conch Shack & RumBar, Providenciales

For a small island with not even one stop light, Providenciales in the Turks & sure has a large number of simply amazing beaches (see The Stunning Beaches of Providenciales), and a number of really fun beach bars too.

One of the better known, da Conch Shack & RumBar, is located in the Blue Hills area on the northern coast of Provo (next door to Kalooki’s).

da Conch Shack & RumBar provides deliciously fresh seafood and a wide variety of conch dishes – cracked conch, conch salad, conch fritters, conch creole, and curried conch.

And if all that delicious conch & seafood weren’t enough, the RumBar serves up an excellent Rum Punch called Jan’s Rum Punch, served by the glass or pitcher.

We ordered conch fritters, conch salad and a couple Rum Punches and settled in to listen to the live music and enjoy the sea breeze.

O’Brien, the bartender at the RumBar was great to talk “rum” with and delighted in sharing his favorite rum selections.

Listed as one of the 1,000 places to see before you die in the book of the same name, we’d have to agree that it’s well worth a visit, or two, while staying in Provo.

Have you been to da Conch Shack & RumBar? Tell us about it!

Find out more on their website: da Conch Shack & RumBar

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June 28, 2016June 24, 2021

The Stunning Beaches of Providenciales, Turks & Caicos

If you ask anyone that has visited the island of Providenciales in beautiful Turks & Caicos what they think of the beaches, you’ll probably get an enthusiastic thumbs up. From the very well known Grace Bay Beach which is frequently included on lists of “Top Beaches”, to some of the lesser known and less visited beaches, the stunning beaches of Providenciales are sure to leave an impression on you.

Unfortunately one week was just not enough time to fully explore every beach on the island (after all, we had to reserve some time to check out the impressive list of great bars & beach bars on island too!), so we will just give the lowdown on what Provo beaches we’ve gotten to see so far. Be sure to leave a comment below with any others that you’ve enjoyed.

Grace Bay Beach
Frequently listed as one of the Top Beaches in the world, this very long stretch of stunning white sand and turquoise blue water is a beach lover’s paradise. Many of the major resorts and accommodations in Provo are found along this stretch of beach.

The Bight Beach
Although it seems just like a continuation of Grace Bay Beach, The Bight Beach is west of Grace Bay along the same stretch of sand. The Bight Beach is best known for it’s snorkeling with a good amount of lush sea grass just off the shore.

A view of The Bight Beach from Somewhere Café & Lounge

Leeward Beach
Heading east from Grace Bay you will find another long and beautiful expanse of white sand beach called the Leeward Beach. We read that from Leeward Beach it is possible to walk 7 miles of beach passing Grace Bay and The Bight Beach and ending at Turtle Cove. We originally thought that Pelican Beach was a separate beach on the northeast side, but found it included in Leeward Beach in some maps.

Pelican Beach (part of Leeward Beach)

Sapodilla Bay
Heading down to the south part of Provo, Sapodilla Bay lies on the Caicos Banks side of the island adjacent from Chalk Sound. With blue, shallow, calm, clear water, it’s a pretty place to pull up a beach towel and enjoy a quiet afternoon in the sun.

Taylor Bay
Not far from Sapodilla Bay is another pretty, shallow bay called Taylor Bay. Taylor Bay is very shallow for yards out into the band has a long expanse of white sand that is perfect for walking. Parking is very limited next to the path that opens up to the bay.

Have you spent time at a beach on Provo? Tell us about it!

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June 4, 2016September 21, 2019

Bugaloo’s Conch Crawl, Providenciales

If you like conch, live music, good drinks and a great atmosphere, you should probably put Bugaloo’s Conch Crawl on your “list”.

Located in Five Cays on the T&C island of Providenciales, this laid-back beach bar serves up fresh fish dishes (they’re located next to Sunny’s Fish Plant, so very fresh) for lunch and dinner along with tasty drinks, live music and a great view.

There is a front door and inside seating,

but, when we pulled in to park, we were immediately drawn to the great looking deck and outside seating.

Although there was some great seating on the deck under the palms, we chose a small table in the sand, about as close as we could get to the shallow, blue water.

The live music at lunch was mellow and relaxing – perfect for that time of day, but were told the music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights is lively and perfect for partying.

We ordered Red Snapper and Coconut Cracked Conch and thought both dishes were tasty.

Then we spent some time walking in the shallow, watching people jet skiing in the bay and enjoying a beverage at one of the cool “boat” tables.

Great afternoon and would put it on our list of places to experience again.

Have you been to Bugaloo’s? Tell us about it!

Check out Bugaloo’s website for more info.

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May 2, 2016May 29, 2019

Kalooki’s, Beach Restaurant & Bar

Kalooki’s, a beach restaurant & bar in Providenciales sits on a pretty stretch of beach in Blue Hills, on the north side of the island.

The location once was the site of a beach bar by the name of Horse-Eye Jacks, but was purchased by the current owners a few years ago.

A pretty location set among some lush foliage, Kalooki’s offers dishes with a Caribbean flare and from what we hear, a dash of Jamaican seasoning as one of the owners has Jamaican roots.

Although we didn’t dine there, we stopped by twice to enjoy a beverage on the deck with a beautiful view of the ocean.

On our first visit, we met a very friendly bartender named James. We asked him, of course, what rum drink we should order and he quickly said, “The Happy!”

We asked how the drink got its name and he told us a story. Wray & Nephew ran a contest to see who could come up with the best rum drink using their rum. James, who was originally from Jamaica created a mixture using peach, passion fruit, fresh lime juice , ginger beer and Wray & Nephew and won the contest! We asked him again why he named his drink “The Happy” and he said, “Just try it – you’ll see.”

Well, he was right. The cocktail was delicious, but powerful with the overproof rum and we were indeed happy.

The bar

Seating on the deck

View from the deck

View of the back

We enjoyed our time at Kalooki’s and would have enjoyed sampling a dinner of Jerk Chicken or Grilled Mahi Mahi or their Saturday night Beachside Barbeque, but we’re sure we’ll be back to Provo and will definitely return to Kalooki’s to “get happy”!

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April 28, 2016May 29, 2019

Somewhere Café & Lounge, Providenciales

We arrived early at our accommodations for the week in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, stored our bags and asked for directions to the closest bar to hang out for a while until we could check in. “That would be Somewhere” was the reply. Thankfully, having done a bit of research before our trip, we knew that wasn’t just a smart a%# remark – there was truly a bar called Somewhere right around the corner!

Somewhere Café & Lounge is located directly on beautiful Grace Bay Beach.

It’s perfect location offers an amazing view of the gorgeous beach and it’s a prime place to catch a colorful sunset.

It wasn’t hard to get a table during the day, but by night the joint is hopping, and we had a substantial wait for a table after 7pm – which wasn’t hard to stomach, while enjoying a glass of wine in an Adirondack chair overlooking the bar and the beach.

The Rum Punch – very good. A mixture of orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine and rum; the enticing beverage was topped off with a healthy floater of Bambarra Rum.

The bartenders – entertaining and accommodating and although there wasn’t a huge rum selection – that Rum Punch…

Looking for a nice, casual place to hang out, enjoy the view and/or the sunset and enjoy a tasty drink while on Grace Bay? Somewhere might be just what your looking for!

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April 19, 2016May 29, 2019

Jimmy’s Dive Bar, Provo, Turks & Caicos

When we heard the name of this bar tucked into a corner of Ports of Call in Providenciales, T&C, we knew we had to make a stop to check it out.

Oddly enough, as soon as we stepped through the door, we realized we stopped in during our first trip to T&C in 2008. Deja vu…We hadn’t remembered the name, but definitely remembered the bar. We sat in the same booth as we had 8 years before and ordered another Turks Head.

Jimmy’s Dive Bar is actually owned by Jimmy Ardavany, an easy to talk to guy who came to Providenciales from New York and started his bar about 9 years ago.

Asked how he landed in T&C, he said he decided to “get the hell” out of New York, get a business for himself in a tropical location and ended up in Providenciales.

Apparently Jimmy’s bar is doing well with locals and visitors alike to last as many years as it has on this pretty island.

Located in an area surrounded by glitzy hotels and resorts, Jimmy’s Dive Bar is a comfortable, non-pretentious place to hang out and enjoy some local beers, a rum or rum drink from his decent rum selection and some laid back conversation with other vacationers or his friendly bartenders and other staff, such as Gloribel – who eagerly told us about a rum she recommended from Venezuela.

We talked to Jimmy about island life and the realities of owning a business on an island and he said, “If you want to make a million bucks owning a bar in the islands, be sure to bring 2 million down with you!”

All joking aside, we enjoyed his bar with it’s Caribbean beach bar-like funky decor,

– eclectic musical play list and nice outdoor seating areas.

We didn’t order any food this time, but we enjoyed the drinks and the atmosphere and will definitely stop by to say hi to Jimmy again next time we’re in the area.

Have you been to Jimmy’s Dive Bar? Tell us about it!

Check out their Facebook page here

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July 18, 2012June 5, 2019

Rum Therapy in Turks and Caicos

The promise of beaches like the one above caused us to book our first trip to Turks and Caicos a few years ago.

In researching Turks and Caicos, we found that some cays and islands had fantastic high end resorts (Parrot Cay) and some were very quiet with very little tourist traffic. We really wanted to experience a week “off of the grid” and as we were traveling with 4 other adults, we also wanted to find a place large enough to comfortably accommodate 6 on the beach. We ran across a villa rental on North Caicos and thought it might fit the bill. It did.

We flew in to Providenciales, gathered our luggage, hailed a taxi, stopped at a grocery store in Provo before catching the ferry (we read that groceries were quite limited in North Caicos) and caught the ferry to North Caicos.

The ferry arriving in Provo

We rented a car in North Caicos for the week. Quite the feat to drive on the right side of the car on the left side of the road, but a car was really necessary and luckily there’s n0t much traffic at all on North Caicos.

Our villa was located off the main road (see above) and road signs are scarce on North Caicos, so fortunately we had plenty of sunshine left to find our villa.

The villa was right on beautiful Whitby Beach and we took advantage of the amazing view every day – and night.

So what did we do for a week? Let me tell you!

Beaches
The beaches we visited on Turks and Caicos beaches are indescribable. The sand was soft and white… Most beaches on the north side had extremely sandy bottoms and we could walk many feet into the ocean before there was a drop off. On North Caicos we rarely saw another person on the beach and conch shells were everywhere!

Snorkeling and Shelling
We took an excursion and spent the day snorkeling and shelling. Our captain took us out to a reef where the snorkeling was excellent with vibrantly colored fish and coral. We stopped at a deserted Cay to do some shelling and were amazed to find hundreds of unbroken sun bleached white sand dollars of all sizes.

We made one more stop at Little Water Cay – a nature reserve, to check out the Turks and Caicos Rock Iguanas.

Exploring other Islands
Middle Caicos
We took a day trip and drove to Middle Caicos which is connected to North Caicos by a causeway. Middle Caicos looks entirely different than North Caicos and we thought parts of the Beach Cave Trail looked a wee bit like Ireland!

Providenciales
Provo is the most populated island of the T&C chain and home to Grace Bay Beach, frequently named as one of the top 10 beaches in the world. It’s an easy ferry ride from Provo to North Caicos and we spent the day shopping, enjoying a few beverages and walking Grace Bay Beach.

Relaxing
This was our week to get “off the grid” and it didn’t take long to get on island time. No internet access and limited cell phone coverage was a little strange at first, but by the end of the week we were lovin’ it. It gave us plenty of time to do this:

and this,

and lots of this…

Odds and Ends
Just a few other things we enjoyed during our time in T&C.

Great dock to watch the sunrise and sunset on Horsestable Beach.

Excellent Caribbean Lobster dinner with Karen at the Silver Palm Restaurant – North Caicos

Conch, conch and more delicious conch at Miss B’s Island Hut – North Caicos

Finally finding (after several failed attempts) and snorkeling at Three Mary Cays in North Caicos

One thing that every trip we take to the islands teaches us is that you can never see and do all there is to see and do on an island in just one week. Our first trip to Turks and Caicos proved that to be true once again. Although we saw A LOT, did A LOT and relaxed A LOT (Yes, we enjoyed a good bit of Rum Therapy there!), we really only saw a fraction of what these beautiful islands have to offer and hope we’ll have the opportunity to return someday to see much more…

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