A trip to Barbados will include some truly special meal-time moments to treasure forever. Vacations mean trying everything – locally caught fish, home-grown grass-fed meats, sweet plantains, rice and peas, tasty West Indian curries and rotis. Visitors can expect a Barbados menu of freshly prepared tropic fruits and juices, omelettes, delicious homemade breads and pastries. Lunch and dinner can be as formal or as laid-back as they’d like. On this small island, they have amazing restaurants and cafés to suit every need, serving familiar international dishes and Caribbean food.
The history of rum in Barbados and Barbados itself are forever entwined, with neither narrative complete without the other. It is believed that rum is the oldest distilled spirit in the world. And whether or not that is true, it is most certainly the oldest distilled spirit in Barbados.
First made 370 years ago from the sugar cane that populated the island, Barbados rum soon found favour with many English sailors who, as legend tells it, offered their bounty of rum as proof that they had crossed the Atlantic. But it wasn’t until 1703, when Mount Gay Rum began distilling the oldest brand of rum in existence, that the world would come to recognize Barbados as the true birthplace of rum.
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