How to Experience the Best of Guyana Restaurant Week 2026

More than a meal: across ten days and more than twenty kitchens, Guyana Restaurant Week is where the country tells its story on a plate. Here are the tables worth booking.

From Georgetown’s finest tables, our chefs are turning ten days of dining into a living archive of who we are.

There is a quiet alchemy that happens when a country’s history is told through its kitchens. In Guyana, that history is complicated, layered, and extraordinary. It arrives in waves. Amerindian provisions that predate every colonial chapter. African cooking traditions that survived the unsurvivable. The aromatics of Indian indentureship folded into curries and dhal puri. Chinese influence presses into the corners of our markets and menus. European structures that our grandmothers quietly made their own.

No single dish holds all of it. But a table set with intention comes close: a long table, one you linger at.

This year, the table holds more.

2026 marks sixty years of Guyanese independence. Sixty years of a country insisting on its own story, building its own institutions, learning what it means to belong to itself. That learning has been slow, and sometimes painful. The milestone has been marked in speeches and ceremonies. But the most honest reckoning with who we are happens somewhere else. Not in formal halls. In kitchens. In the decision a chef makes about which traditions to honour and which to reinterpret. In the dish that arrives at a table and asks, quietly: do you remember this?

“A country that spent sixty years building its identity is also a country producing chefs who know exactly where they come from, and are unafraid to go somewhere new with it.”

From June 19 to 28, 2026, Guyana Restaurant Week (GRW) turns Georgetown into a living canvas of culinary artistry. The event is organised annually by the Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG), in collaboration with the Guyana Tourism Authority. It challenges more than twenty of the city’s finest establishments to distill their identity into exclusive, fixed-price menus. Each one is paired with wine. Each one is a point of view about where Guyanese food has been, and where it is going.

THAG puts the premise simply: explore, eat, repeat. Lunch begins as low as $3,000 GYD. Dinner runs between $6,000 and $8,000 GYD, all taxes included. But the real invitation is something harder to price: a front-row seat to ten days of chefs making arguments about who we are.

Here is The Guyana Edit’s guide to the tables worth planning your week around.

1. Where the Past Sets the Table

Some restaurants carry history the way old houses do. Not as decoration, but as structure. You feel it in the ceiling height, in the way sound moves through the room, in the quality of light at six in the evening.

The Bottle Bar & Restaurant

📍 Location: Cara Lodge, 294 Quamina Street, Cummingsburg — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: The Bottle Bar & Restaurant

Georgetown’s most eloquent heritage table, and THAG’s 2025 Hotel of the Year. A colonial timber landmark from the 1840s, where The Bottle sets its tables among genuine Dutch trade bottles, Portuguese floor tile, and English ballast brick. The room is the history, before a plate even arrives. The menu keeps an “A Taste of Guyana” section that reads like this article. Pepperpot, slow-braised in cassareep with wiri wiri pepper, Amerindian to the bone. Metemgee, ground provisions in coconut milk, African in its roots. A traditional curry with roti, the Indian inheritance on a plate.

Look for: The “A Taste of Guyana” heritage dishes, and a drink at the historic bar that gives the room its name.

Sucre Restaurant

📍 Location: Herdmanston Lodge, 19-20 Peter Rose Street, Queenstown — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Sucre Restaurant

Heritage from the other side. Tucked into a historic Queenstown lodge, Sucre trades grand rooms for garden calm and an indoor waterfall. It’s best known for its weekly buffet and a Sunday Brunch that runs from 10:30 until the conversations end. Upscale plating, residential quiet, no rush.

Look for: The Sunday Brunch and weekly buffet; ask for the Restaurant Week menu when you book.

Aagman Indian Restaurant

📍 Location: Lot 28A Sheriff Street, Campbellville, Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Aagman Indian Restaurant

The Indian thread of the story. Aagman’s deeply spiced repertoire is the aromatics that arrived with indentureship and never left. The house favourite is the butter chicken, char-grilled and finished in creamy tomato, fenugreek, honey, and cream. Go deeper for the lamb nihari, a Deccan dish slow-cooked overnight. Even the local snapper gets the tandoor-and-tikka treatment: Guyanese fish, Indian technique, one plate.

Look for: The butter chicken (their stated guest favourite), the overnight-cooked lamb nihari, and local snapper cooked the tandoori way.

THE EDIT — THE EDIT — Three tables, three inheritances. Sucre’s Sunday Brunch for the long, unhurried middle of the day. The Bottle at Cara Lodge, THAG’s 2025 Hotel of the Year, for the dinner in a room that is itself the history. Aagman for the night you want the butter chicken and the deep spice of the Indian table.

2. The City Growing Into Itself

Guyana has always been a crossroads, where cultures meet and, over time, become something entirely their own. These five kitchens make that argument on the plate. They take Japanese, Peruvian, and global techniques and put it in conversation with local water, local fish, and local fruit. The result is food that could only happen here.

Yugo Japanese Fusion Restaurant

📍 Location: 1st Floor, MovieTowne, East Coast Demerara | 🌐 Website: YuGo

YuGo is Guyana’s first anime-themed Japanese room, and proudly loud about it. The heart of the menu is handmade ramen. Around it: yakitori skewers, Wagyu, and sushi with a sense of humour, like the Godzilla roll. Izakaya energy with, as they put it, a Guyana attitude.

Nikkei Guyana

📍 Location: 3 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Nikkei

Nikkei Guyana, the Peruvian-Japanese table, and the most precise fusion in the city. Nikkei is the cuisine where Japanese technique met Peruvian ingredients a century ago, and here it meets Guyanese seafood. Order the ceviches, the salmon tiradito, and the acevichado roll. Reservation only, dinner from five.

Le Chef

📍 Location: 62 Anira Street, Queenstown — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Le Chef

Chef Dustin Dalgetty’s Queenstown room. He built his name on sushi with a Guyanese twist, pairing Japanese precision with local ingredients like mango. A respected caterer for the Ministry of Tourism, CPL, and the World Bank, here doing it at his own table.

Bistro Café & Bar | Bistro Wine & Champagne Bar

📍 Location: 176 Middle & Waterloo Streets — Georgetown | | MovieTowne, Rupert Craig Highway 🌐 Websites: Bistro Café & Bar | Bistro Wine & Champagne Bar

One brand, two moods. The Café & Bar in the city centre is the all-rounder, where a working lunch turns into something more considered. The Wine & Champagne Bar at MovieTowne is the grown-up sibling: the sushi specialist, billing itself as the best in Georgetown, with a list built for lingering.

THE EDIT — For the cleanest fusion in the city, book Nikkei and eat through the ceviches. For the best story, Le Chef, where a local chef puts mango in the sushi and means it. Bringing a crowd? Yugo, ramen and a Godzilla roll under the anime glow.

Look for: Handmade ramen and the Godzilla roll at Yugo; ceviche and salmon tiradito at Nikkei; mango-laced sushi at Le Chef; the sushi-and-champagne pairing at Bistro Wine.

None of this is accidental. A country that spent sixty years building its identity is also a country producing chefs who know exactly where they come from — and are unafraid to go somewhere new with it.

3. Fire, char, and a serious cut

Some nights you want fire. Smoke, char, a serious piece of meat, a room with some volume. These three bring the heat, each in its own idiom: prime steak, Creole grill, and low-and-slow smoke.

Realm Steak House & Sky Bar

📍 Location: Jewelz by Kings Hotel, 184 Waterloo & Quamina Streets, — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Realm Steak House

Realm Steak House, the city’s prime-steak room, up on a rooftop with a 360-degree view of downtown. Prime USDA cuts, Wagyu, rack of lamb. The show-off is the A5 Wagyu striploin, flame-kissed over sushi rice with kaffir-infused soy. Come hungry and book the Tomahawk for the table.

The Flame Restaurant & Grill

📍 Location: Amazonia Mall, Providence, East Bank Demerara — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: The Flame

The Creole grill of the bunch, just outside town at Providence. Beef, lamb, chicken, and fish worked every way Guyana knows: grilled, barbecued, curried, fried, in a broth. International plates too, but the local fire is the point.

Scotty’s SmokeHouse

📍 Location: Lot 8 Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Scotty’s SmokeHouse

Low-and-slow, and the newest serious smoke in town. Pitmaster Lennox Scott, a Carnegie School alumnus and two-time Taste of the Caribbean medalist, runs brisket, ribs, and pulled pork beside smoked chicken, prawns, and lamb leg. Local wood, house sauces, live music most nights.

THE EDIT — For the occasion cut and the rooftop view, Realm and a Tomahawk. For the most Guyanese plate, The Flame’s Creole grill. For the slow burn, Scotty’s brisket with a steelpan in the background.

Look for: The A5 Wagyu and the Tomahawk at Realm; Creole-grilled fish and meats at The Flame; brisket, ribs, and smoked lamb leg at Scotty’s.

4. Big rooms, familiar pleasures

Then there are the rooms that just want to show you a good time. Big, familiar, high-energy. Global brands and global formats, doing what they do at volume.

Jaxx International Grill

📍 Location: MovieTowne, Rupert Craig Highway, Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Jaxx International Grill

“The world at your table,” and they mean it. A Trinidad-born grill where the menu jumps from brick-oven pizza to burgers to steaks to pasta, with a weekend brunch that pulls a crowd. Reliable, loud, something for everyone.

P.F. Chang’s

📍 Location: 57 High Street, Kingston — Georgetown | 🌐 Website: P.F. Chang’s

P.F. Chang’s, the Asian-American heavyweight, near the Seawall in Kingston. Iconic lettuce wraps, hand-rolled sushi, dim sum, big shareable plates. A polished, dependable night out built for a group.

Hard Rock Cafe

📍 Location: MovieTowne, Rupert Craig Highway, Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Hard Rock Cafe Guyana

The rock-and-roll institution, Guyana edition. Burgers, ribs, and American classics in a 185-seat room with live music and memorabilia on the walls. Come for the energy and the group photo.

THE EDIT — For a big group with mixed cravings, Jaxx and a few brick-oven pizzas. For the dependable group dinner, P.F. Chang’s, lettuce wraps to start. For the loudest night, Hard Rock, live music and ribs.

Look for: Brick-oven pizza and weekend brunch at Jaxx; the lettuce wraps and dim sum at P.F. Chang’s; burgers, ribs, and live music at Hard Rock.

5. Restaurant Week up the Essequibo

BÍA BÍA Tex-Mex Cuisine

📍 Location: 35 First Avenue, Bartica (Region 7) | 🌐 Website: BÍA BÍA

The one that takes Restaurant Week off the coast and up the Essequibo, to the river town of Bartica. Owner-chef Krysann Younge builds Tex-Mex with an unmistakable Guyanese twist. The signature: Boudin balls stuffed with cook-up rice, stewed chicken, mozzarella, and plantain. Texas street food, Region 7 soul.

THE EDIT — If you make it to Bartica during the week, the boudin balls are the order. Texas by way of a Guyanese cook-up pot.

Look for: The cook-up boudin balls and the tacos.

6. When the setting does half the work

Terra Mare

📍 Location: Guyana Marriott Hotel, Kingston Seawall, Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Terra Mare

The city’s oceanfront anchor, right on the Kingston Seawall. The name says the philosophy: terra for earth, mare for sea, the kitchen working both. Continental, American, and Guyanese plates, strong on local seafood, with curried shrimp and sushi among the draws. The table to book when the meal is the occasion.

Swingerz Sky Golf

📍 Location: MovieTowne, Rupert Craig Highway, Georgetown | 🌐 Website: Swingerz Sky Golf

Guyana’s first mini-golf club, restaurant, and open-air lounge, up on the second floor of MovieTowne. Co-founded in 2024 by Shomari Williams and a team of US-based Guyanese, it trades the standard dinner routine for something more social: a designed course, a lively bar, and a genuine Atlantic view from the deck. Not a hushed tasting menu, but a casual, high-energy night out where the play is half the point.

THE EDIT — Terra Mare for the milestone dinner, oceanfront, arrive before sunset. Swingerz for the slow, social evening, a round of mini-golf between courses.

Look for: Local seafood, curried shrimp, and sushi at Terra Mare; an easy, cocktail-friendly menu and a round on the green at Swingerz.

Every Table in Play for 2026

Beyond the editorial picks above, THAG’s participating restaurants this year span the full breadth of Georgetown’s dining scene:

• Aagman Indian Restaurant
• AC Marriott
• BÍA BÍA Tex-Mex Cuisine
• Bistro Café & Bar
• Bistro Wine & Champagne Bar
• Cara Lodge
• Caribbean Inn
• Champoreau
• Hangar Restaurant (Courtyard by Marriott)
• Hard Rock Cafe
• Jaxx International Grill
• Le Chef
• Nikkei Guyana
• OMG!
• P.F. Chang’s
• Realm Steak House
• RyRy’s Restaurant
• Scotty’s SmokeHouse
• Sucre Restaurant (Herdmanston Lodge) ·
• Swingerz Sky Golf
• Terra Mare Restaurant 
• The Flame Restaurant & Grill
• Yugo Japanese Fusion Restaurant

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