GOLD WINNER
🥇 Palm Tree Kitchen & Barwebsite
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“When you’re from the islands, you grow up in the kitchen,” says owner Demetrius Ferguson. “I grew up with my grandmother, my great-grandmother, always watching them cook, watching my mom cook… I was always the kid around just learning, watching, observing, tasting.”
Those early culinary influences shine through on the Palm Tree Kitchen menu, from Bahamian baked macaroni and cheese to steamed mackerel prepared with jerk spice, sliced onions and sauteed peppers—“that’s one of our staples; we eat mackerel a lot,” he says.