Little Palm Island restaurant: boat arrival and The Dining Room

The Dining Room opens towards the ocean from a timber-roofed verandah, while the indoor room has its own West Indies character and vaulted ceiling. Tables on the beach can be requested, with availability deciding whether the sand is part of your evening. Choose the setting when you reserve, especially if sitting outdoors is the main reason for the trip. The restaurant asks for quiet conversations and phones kept on silent across the room, verandah and beach, preserving a meal built around the place and the people at the table.

Guests staying elsewhere book a limited non-resort dining experience: Sunday brunch, prix-fixe lunch or prix-fixe dinner. The visitor page describes a crossing to the island and drinks in the Monkey Hut before dinner. This gives the visit a beginning before the first course arrives. It also makes a reservation essential to the outing; arrange the meal and the boat arrival together instead of treating the island like a restaurant you can reach by car at the last minute.

The sample prix-fixe dinner read on 16 October 2026 is printed at $205++ a person, with wine pairings at $125++. It begins with an amuse-bouche of steak tartare, then hamachi crudo, an artisan Caesar salad and black-truffle tagliolini before a mango-key-lime intermezzo. The main-course choice on that sample is swordfish or prime New York beef, followed by orange-ricotta cake and madeleines. The hotel says the menus are crafted daily, so use that sequence to understand the style of the meal you are reserving.

The sample à-la-carte dinner gives another view of the kitchen. Local black grouper with celery-root purée and citrus is $72; black-truffle pappardelle is $65, and prime ribeye with aligot potatoes, green beans and Bordelaise is $90. A simply prepared section pairs a chosen protein with 2 sides and a sauce. Its examples include local yellowtail snapper at $65 and Caribbean lobster tail at $85. These are published sample-item amounts, read on 16 October 2026, with 7.5% tax and an adjustable 22% gratuity under the FAQ’s food-and-drink policy.

Seafood can also lead the meal. The sample dinner lists a chef’s seafood platter at $160, with Key West pink shrimp, oysters and sashimi. The larger LPI Seafood Tower is $275 on that sample, with shrimp, oysters, lobster tail, ceviche and stone crab. The main dining page offers a separate Beluga caviar experience in The Dining Room, a private dining reservation or a bungalow suite. Choose it as a particular extra when arranging the evening, because the caviar offering is its own experience.

Sunday brunch runs from 11am to 2pm and requires a reservation. Lunch is Monday–Saturday from 11am to 2pm, while breakfast is served daily from 8am to 10.30am. The monthly Asado experience gives a further reason to plan a date: guests start with beach cocktails and canapés while food cooks over the fire, then gather at a communal table in the Monkey Hut for a 5-course family-style meal. Its shared table and cooking sequence make it a different sort of evening from a private dinner for a couple.

Dress for a meal on a private island, with a collared shirt for men and shoes required in The Dining Room. The restaurant’s detailed dress guidance allows trousers or a smart pair of shorts for dinner and asks guests to leave jeans and beachwear out of the dining areas. Jackets and ties are unnecessary under the FAQ’s guidance. For women it suggests comfortable dresses or polished resort clothing. A swimsuit cover-up alone does not meet the rule excluding swimsuits from The Dining Room.

A prix-fixe dinner gives an outside visitor a clear meal around which to arrange the boat trip. Lunch puts the crossing and ocean outlook into the middle of the day, while Sunday brunch has a fixed weekly place. The monthly asado adds fire cooking and a communal table at the Monkey Hut. Choose the occasion first, then reserve the date and the shore departure that belongs to it.