Driftwood Restaurant
Family-run seafood off the tourist strip, with its own fishing boat behind the menu
Driftwood Restaurant
A downtown Oranjestad seafood house run by the Merryweather family since 1986, with its own Driftwood Fishing Charters boat supplying much of the catch served in the dining room.
Driftwood Restaurant sits on Klipstraat in downtown Oranjestad, a block off the main tourist strip and, by several diners' accounts, easy to miss on first pass. The Merryweather family has owned and operated it since 1986, pairing the kitchen with their own Driftwood Fishing Charters boat, so a portion of the seafood on the menu comes straight from their own catch. The menu leans Caribbean and Aruban, with entrees mostly in the $31 to $54 range and a surf and turf option topping out near $59.
Driftwood holds roughly 4.3 out of 5 on TripAdvisor, ranking around #111 of 601 restaurants in Oranjestad, a solid mid-pack showing among the island's dense restaurant scene rather than a standout.
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