On Jersey, ultra-fresh local produce is championed everywhere: not only in the island’s gourmet restaurants, but also in its beach cafés, coffee vans and ice cream kiosks, and in the “hedge veg” produce stalls that perch against residents’ garden walls, stacked with whatever’s in season.
Thanks to the Gulf of Saint-Malo’s clean waters and Jersey’s productive farms, complete with obliging dairy cows, there’s much to enjoy. You’ll detect both English and French influences on many menus, and if you have a penchant for plump oysters, juicy scallops, petite potatoes and lusciously creamy butter, you’ll be in heaven.
All our recommendations have been hand-selected and tested by our destination expert to help you discover the best restaurants in Jersey. Find out more below or for more inspiration, see our guides to the best hotels, things to do, bars and nightlife, and beaches.
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Best all-rounders
Bass & Lobster
Serving elegant, unfussy dishes in an informal setting, this bistro’s seasonal menus feature island ingredients such as Gorey razor fish with chorizo and farm-raised pork with Jersey Royals. Fresh seafood with a twist is the house speciality – the beer-battered fish comes with truffle parmesan chips and the catch of the day may be paired with onion bhaji and coriander yoghurt.
Area: Gorey, St Martin
Website: bassandlobster.com
Price: ££
Reservations: Recommended
Bass & Lobster serves seasonal menus in an informal setting
Mark Jordan at the Beach
Welsh-born Mark Jordan made his name at Ocean Restaurant at Jersey’s Atlantic Hotel, earning it a Michelin star. In 2017, he left Ocean to concentrate on Mark Jordan at the Beach, a less formal venture, on the magnificent stretch of sand between St Helier and St Aubin. Local shellfish, sea bream, lobster, beef and lamb are usually on the menu, and there’s a reasonably priced set lunch. Jordan’s elegant, honest approach shines throughout.
Area: Beaumont, St Peter
Website: markjordanatthebeach.com
Price: ££
Reservations: Recommended
Local shellfish and lobster are usually on the menu at Mark Jordan at the Beach
The Moorings
Gorey’s gorgeous boutique hotel has a versatile restaurant, bistro and bar. Shellfish addicts can get their fix during happy hour, when oysters with shallot vinaigrette and kimchi are just £1.50 a pop with any drink. Dinners are sumptuous, and brunch (which you can enjoy out on the quayside) is a feast, featuring imaginative platters, shakshuka and Turkish eggs.
Area: Gorey, St Martin
Website: themooringshotel.com
Price: £-££
Reservations: Not needed by day, recommended for dinner
Oysters are £1.50 each with any drink at The Moorings’ happy hour
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Best for families
La Hougue Bie Tea Rooms
Whether or not you’re visiting the fascinating Hougue Bie Museum, there’s a warm welcome in its appealing café, run by Jersey Heritage. It offers cooked breakfasts, tea-time classics and generous, low-priced lunches such as chilli, sandwiches and burgers, with small portions for children. There are tables in the spacious, living-room-like interior and outside in the flower-bedecked courtyard, with a grassy space beyond for children to run around.
Area: Grouville
Website: jerseyheritage.org
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
La Hougue Bie Tea Rooms has indoor and outdoor seating in a pretty courtyard – Jersey Heritage
Off The Rails
Right on the Railway Walk, beside a park with a children’s playground (featuring a jaunty pink elephant slide), this cosy timber cabin is a hotspot for local families. A crowd-pleasing menu of brunch favourites, sourdough pizza, vegan pancakes, Sunday roasts, wine and cocktails offers something for everyone. Service is speedy and there are masses of tasty options for youngsters, including no-nonsense burgers and scrummy freakshakes.
Area: St Brelade
Website: offtherailsjersey.com
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
Off The Rails is a popular spot for local families, with an extensive and child-friendly menu
Ransoms Tearoom
Ransoms was voted one of the best garden centres in South and East England in the Garden Centre Association awards. And the tearoom is bright and cheery, with indoor and outdoor tables. It has a long menu of cooked breakfasts, light lunches and substantial dishes such as lasagne and calamari, plus kids’ classics. For tea, there’s a cabinet stuffed with treats, including next-level cupcakes.
Area: St Martin
Website: ransoms.je/tearoom
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
As well as substantial savoury dishes, Ransoms Tearoom has plenty of sweet treats
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Best for cheap eats
Bean Around The World
One of the best spots to sip an espresso or cappuccino in Jersey’s capital, this street corner café opens early for light breakfasts such as toasted paninis, smoothies and muffins studded with chocolate or pumpkin seeds, handmade at their own bakery. In the likely event that its handful of perches are crammed with locals on a work break, you could grab a takeaway.
Area: St Helier
Website: beanaroundtheworld.co.uk
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
Paninis and cakes accompany great coffee at Bean Around The World
Beresford Street Kitchen
Providing training and employment for more than 60 people with learning disabilities and autism, this town centre café wears its heart on its sleeve. Its aim is to serve straightforward meals and drinks in a friendly, positive atmosphere – and it succeeds. The menu includes pastries, cakes and comfort food such as cottage pie, chicken caesar salad and vegan beetroot burgers, all at unbeatable prices.
Area: St Helier
Website: beresfordstreetkitchen.je
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
Beresford Street Kitchen provides employment for people with learning disabilities and autism
Dandy
Small, cool and understated, Dandy is a contemporary bakery coffee shop that serves up top-notch flavours. For breakfast, you could try a smoked bacon and smashed egg sourdough sandwich with burnt butter ketchup, or homemade granola layered with Jersey yoghurt and fruit compote. Lunchtime sandwiches combine ingredients such as charred red peppers, toasted almonds, ham and handmade piccalilli. There are salads and specials, too.
Area: St Helier
Website: dandycoffeeshop.com
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
Breakfast dishes, sandwiches and salads fill the menu at Dandy
The Loft
The heart of The Loft is its open kitchen, with a gleaming oven fired up and ready. Gourmet pizzas with crispy crusts and luscious Italian-style toppings are the main event; even the sandwiches are essentially folded pizzas. The Loft is also excellent for breakfast, with a fine selection of pastries, loaded waffles, eggs, bagels and wraps. The owners are coffee aficionados, and it shows.
Area: St Aubin
Website: theloft.je
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
The Loft’s open kitchen turns out pizzas with crispy crusts
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Best for fine dining
Bohemia
Bohemia, currently the Channel Islands’ sole Michelin-starred restaurant, is Jersey’s front-runner for a gastronomic extravaganza. Earning its first star in 2005, it has been flying high ever since. Head chef Tom Earnshaw, who took the reins in 2025, favours local and French seasonal ingredients in his immaculately witty, modern European tasting menus. Fabulous cocktails set the tone, and theatrically lit, retro-Scandi décor adds to the visual drama.
Area: St Helier
Website: bohemiajersey.com
Price: £££
Reservations: Essential
Bohemia is the only Michelin-starred restaurant in the Channel Islands
Samphire
Named after the delicate green plant that foragers pluck from Jersey’s shores between late spring and late summer, Samphire is an elegant but relaxed town-centre brasserie with a sprightly modern menu, focused around local ingredients. Visit on Saturday for the bottomless brunch and you can opt for a classy full English or something more offbeat, such as beef tartare and truffle linguine, with unlimited prosecco, mimosas, bellinis or beer.
Area: St Helier
Website: samphire.je
Price: £££
Reservations: Recommended
There’s a modern menu at Samphire, which serves bottomless brunch on Saturdays
Longueville Manor
With attentive and knowledgeable staff, a lovingly curated wine cellar and a stately dining room, partly panelled with oak said to have been salvaged from a 16th-century Spanish galleon, Longueville Manor has oodles of special-occasion atmosphere. The menu is refreshingly vegan-friendly, spotlighting ultra-fresh produce plucked from the hotel’s own sizeable kitchen garden. Save space for cheese: served from a lavishly stocked trolley, it’s a show-stopper.
Area: St Helier
Website: longuevillemanor.com
Price: £££
Reservations: Essential
There’s a dining room and wine cellar at Longueville Manor
Tassili
Basking in restrained luxury, the Grand Jersey Hotel’s fine-dining restaurant is small enough to feel genuinely intimate and exclusive. Chef Nicolas Valmagna, who hails from Provence, expresses himself as much through his artistic, colour-drenched presentation as through his delicate flavour combinations. His style applies French techniques to British ingredients such as Orkney scallops, Exmoor caviar, Angus beef and Dorset lamb – a winning combination.
Area: St Helier
Website: handpickedhotels.co.uk
Price: £££
Reservations: Essential
Artistic presentation meets delicate flavour combinations at Tassili
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Best for walk-ins
La Bastille
This town-centre brasserie serves classics such as pan-fried local scallops, ribeye steak, fish and chips in a cosy space with intimate nooks. The drinks list majors in cocktails and craft beer. For an even wider selection of drinks, including draught ales, you could start by visiting La Bastille’s sister bar, Bière Atelier, round the corner.
Area: St Helier
Website: labastille.bar
Price: ££
Reservations: Not needed
La Bastille is a cosy brasserie, serving classic dishes and craft beer
La Brise
Flooded with light from Saint Brelade’s Bay, La Brise is spacious and vibrant, with contemporary furnishings in ocean-inspired blues and sandy golds. While you’re welcome to pop in for coffee and cake, the menu has previously offered more substantial fare such as lamb shawarma sandwiches, skate wing with patatas bravas and Jersey fillet steak. For vegans, there’s smoked tofu curry, falafel burgers and roasted cauliflower with aubergine. It’s currently closed for the winter, reopening early 2026.
Area: St Brelade’s Bay, St Brelade
Website: labrise.je
Price: ££
Reservations: Not needed
Seasonal La Brise sits across from the beach at St Brelade’s Bay – Andy Le Gresley
Old Smugglers Inn
Reassuringly old-fashioned, the Old Smugglers is a free house that serves draught beer and proper pub grub such as flame-grilled burgers, liver and bacon, steak and ale pie and beer-battered fish with mushy peas. It was once a pair of fishermen’s cottages, the building has low beams and granite fireplaces, ablaze in winter. The west-facing sands of Ouaisné Bay are just a few steps away.
Area: Ouaisné Bay, St Brelade
Website: oldsmugglersinn.com
Price: ££
Reservations: Not needed
Old Smugglers Inn was once a pair of fishermen’s cottages – Max Burnett
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Best for sea views
The Good Egg Beach Café
Set on the bay immediately south of St Helier’s town centre, The Good Egg is a beach cabin with tables under cover and out on the seafront walkway, open from March to November. Hugely popular for its friendly service and reasonable prices, it rustles up wraps, pancakes and bowl food for breakfast, brunch or lunch, plus smoothies and Jersey’s own Rock Roasters coffee. Despite the name, vegans have plenty to choose from.
Area: St Helier
Website: thegoodegg.je
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
Breakfast, brunch or lunch dishes are served alongside smoothies at The Good Egg Beach Café
Driftwood Café
Simple and friendly Driftwood is run by locals with a background in fishing. Set in a privileged spot on a quiet bay that faces the morning sunshine, it has tables both indoors and out, on a terrace overlooking the pebbly beach. The kitchen prepares light bites, full-on brunches and prettily presented seafood dishes based around whatever’s freshest that day.
Area: Archirondel, St Martin
Contact: instagram.com/driftwoodarchirondel; 01534 852157
Price: ££
Reservations: Not needed
Driftwood Café serves brunch and seafood dishes based around fresh catches
The Hungry Man
Pleasing locals and visitors alike since 1947, this north coast beach shack is famous for its reasonably priced hot rolls and double-decker burgers, made from Jersey beef. If you’re extra hungry – fresh from a sea swim, perhaps – you could ask them to add bacon, mushrooms, onions, egg, cheese and black pudding. They make veggie rolls, too. On clear days, you can see all the way to Normandy.
Area: Rozel Bay, Trinity
Website: thehungryman.je
Price: £
Reservations: Not needed
The Hungry Man, on Jersey’s north coast, was started back in 1947
Oyster Box
Oyster Box is a chic restaurant with an enviable location, overlooking St Brelade’s powdery-soft sands and backed by the leafy and tranquil Churchill Memorial Park. Jersey-caught fish, shellfish and crustaceans are its speciality. If you’re in the mood for a blow-out, order a platter of lobster, dressed crab and prawns, or the seafood pot, loaded with rock oysters and mussels.
Area: St Brelade’s Bay, St Brelade
Website: oysterbox.co.uk
Price: ££
Reservations: Not needed
Platters of seafood are available at the chic Oyster Box – Max Burnett
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How we choose
Every restaurant in this curated list has been tried and tested by our destination expert, who has visited to provide you with their insider perspective. We cover a range of budgets, from neighbourhood favourites to Michelin-starred restaurants – to best suit every type of traveller’s taste – and consider the food, service, best tables, atmosphere and price in our recommendations. We update this list regularly to keep up with the latest opening and provide up to date recommendations.
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About our expert
Emma Gregg
Travel journalist Emma Gregg has visited all seven continents and more than 100 islands. She spent a blissful summer in the Channel Islands as a teenager and has had a soft spot for them ever since.
Emma Gregg, Telegraph Travel’s Jersey expert
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