Stonegrill Restaurant

So many people I’ve talked to have told me that Vanuatu is famous for their beef. Apparently they treat their cattle really well here and have really good beef.
The place to go to have this beef at its finest seems to be the Stonegrill Restaurant, so I headed out for dinner, and took a bus there.

A moderately upscale open air restaurant on a hill looking over the city, I got a nice little table to myself, and ordered the beef carpaccio, the cheapest steak, and a pineapple Fanta haha. They also had hilarious jazz renditions of pop songs playing in the background lol

The beef carpaccio with fried capers and pesto was delicious and it really was some of the best carpaccio I’ve ever had. The toppings didn’t overpower the subtle flavour of the raw beef, but the raw beef also had enough flavour to stand on its own without being too beefy. So thin it melts in your mouth.

I got the skirt steak, the cheapest, which comes with two sides— I picked salad and eggplants. I see now why they call it the stonegrill restaurant. The steak comes out raw, on a searing hot stone, where you grill it yourself to your liking. I had some pieces pretty rare and some more cooked. It was all delicious, with a mushroom sauce. A bit chewy but that’s just because of the cut I got.

Some really yummy beef, and actually does live up to all the hype. And not too expensive for what it was!

After I got back to the hotel, I had the lemon version of the local beer, Tusker. One of the yummiest beers I’ve ever had, but mind you I do really like lemon.Read more