🍽️ Restaurant
Golden Rock Inn and its Gardens
An old sugar estate turned artist's garden in Gingerland, with lunch and resident vervet monkeys.
Typical duration
120 min
Price
Lunch about US$25-45 a head (≈ €8.6–15 / $9.2–17)
From port
7 km / 4.3 mi
Transfer time
25 min
Indoor / Outdoor
mixed
Queue risk
low
🕐 Best time to visit
Lunch; the monkeys come down in the late afternoon
Golden Rock is a seventeenth-century sugar estate high in Gingerland that has been an inn since the 1960s and was reworked in the 2000s by the landscape architect Raymond Jungles and the artists Brice Marden and Helen Marden. The result is an unusually good garden: black bamboo, gingers, heliconia and water channels running down through the old estate walls, with the sugar mill converted into a room and the terrace looking east over the Atlantic. Lunch runs around US$25 to US$45 a head and non-residents are welcome, though it is worth calling ahead. Green vervet monkeys come down the slope in numbers late in the day.
Getting there from the port
Twenty-five minutes by taxi up into Gingerland, US$22 for the car each way