Landhuis Dokterstuin

Landhuis Dokterstuin sits on the main road west, a restored plantation house whose interest for most visitors is the kitchen: it serves the local dishes that are hard to find in tourist restaurants, stobá of goat, funchi, kadushi cactus soup, sopi mondongo, at prices aimed at people driving past rather than at tour groups. A small shop sells local produce. The building and grounds can be walked around before or after eating.

What you actually see

• The local kitchen - stobá, funchi and cactus soup cooked the traditional way.
• The restored house - the plantation building and its grounds.
• The produce shop - local goods sold alongside the restaurant.
• The roadside position - a stop on the drive out to the western beaches.

When to go

Year round; the kitchen keeps lunch hours and closes in the afternoon. Sundays draw local families. It is closed on some weekdays.

Honest expectations

Opening hours are limited and it closes in the afternoon. The menu is fixed by what has been cooked that day and popular dishes run out. It is a restaurant first and a monument second.

Nearby

Santa Martha Bay is north, and Sint Willibrordus is southeast.