City overview
Barbados is the easternmost island in the Caribbean, best known for its calm west-coast beaches, British-inflected culture and rum heritage. Jewish life on the island runs entirely through Chabad of Barbados, led by Rabbi Eli and Sterna Chaikin since 2018 from Porters, St. James, just north of Holetown on the west coast. There are no kosher restaurants anywhere on the island — kosher food comes through Chabad's takeout and catering service, which delivers island-wide, and through packaged kosher-certified goods in the larger supermarkets. Chabad holds a minyan on Shabbat during the winter high season and hosts sit-down Shabbat meals open to visitors by reservation. There is no eruv anywhere in Barbados, and no mikvah currently in operation, though one is being built.
Andromeda Botanic Gardens
Barbados · Standard overseas adult BD$45 per person, including unlimited return visits for one month. Children 15 and under with a paying parent free; adults with Bajan ID and Barbados National Trust members free. Curator tour overseas adult BD$65; book separately. Confirm discount eligibility.
Six acres of terraced gardens above the rugged east coast at Bathsheba, with palms, orchids and a butterfly area.
Time needed
1 to 2 hours
Hours
Open daily 9:30 AM–4:30 PM
Tips
There is a free audio guide app keyed to numbered points along the paths. Photograph the map at the entrance — the layout is easy to lose track of.
Phone
+1 246-248-0190Neighborhood
Bathsheba, St. Joseph
Activity providers
Kosher map of Barbados
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.