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Choro's Bar & Grill, in Depth
Charo's Bar & Grill has one thing going for it that the restaurant next door does not: it serves alcohol. That single fact shapes the whole corner of the Sidewalk it sits on in downtown Placencia Village, Stann Creek District. The name is worth a note up front, our directory lists it as "Choro's," but the sources spell it Charo's, and that is the spelling you will see on the ground.
This is an open-air bar and grill on the Sidewalk, the narrow main pedestrian street that runs through the heart of the village. No walls between you and the street, no pretense. You order, you sit, you watch Placencia walk past.
The Arrangement With Omar's
The most useful thing to know about Charo's is how it works with its neighbor. It sits next door to Omar's, and Omar's does not serve alcohol. So diners eating at Omar's commonly walk their drinks over from Charo's, on the informal understanding that the glassware comes back afterward. It is the kind of loose, neighborly system that tells you more about a place than any menu does: two businesses on the same stretch of Sidewalk, splitting the work of a good evening between them.
If you are the type who wants a cold drink with dinner and you have landed at Omar's, this is where the drink comes from. And if you want to eat where the bar is, you stay put at Charo's.
What to Order
Reviewers have singled out one dish above the rest: the coconut curry lobster. That is the plate people mention when they talk about Charo's, so if you are deciding what to order at an open-air grill on the Placencia seafood coast, start there.
Who It's For
Charo's is for the traveler standing on the Sidewalk who wants a drink and a grill in the open air, in the middle of the village rather than out on a resort strip. It is currently open. It is one half of a two-restaurant corner that has quietly worked out how to feed and pour for the same crowd, and the coconut curry lobster is the reason to make it your half.
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