St Barts Reopening Dates 2026: Which Restaurants Open When

Every autumn the same question comes back: what is actually open in St Barts, and from when? This page is the dated answer for the 2026-2027 season. The island’s restaurateurs’ association publishes a table of its members’ reopening dates each year, and this is that table, matched against our restaurant directory and kept up to date as the dates firm up. Read it as a working list, not a promise. A date can slip by a few days, and a handful of names are still marked to be confirmed.

The reopening calendar, date by date

Date	Restaurant	Where
1 October	Nyama	Corossol
3 October	Sayolita	St Jean
7 October	Caribbean To Go	Lorient, French Caribbean street food, Centre L’Îlot
9 October	Ti Corail	Grand Cul-de-Sac
15 October	Arawak	Gustavia
15 October	Bar des Prés	Gustavia
15 October	Mamo	Gustavia
15 October	Tamarin	Saline
17 October	Eddy’s Ghetto	Gustavia
19 October	Sella	Public
22 October	Bagatelle	Gustavia
22 October	Cheval Blanc	Flamands, the hotel’s tables
22 October	La Petite Plage	Gustavia
22 October	Le Barthélemy	Grand Cul-de-Sac, the hotel’s tables
22 October	Le Café	Gustavia
22 October	Nao	St Jean
23 October	Le Christopher	Pointe Milou, the hotel’s tables
23 October	Nikki Beach	St Jean
24 October	La Guérite Plage	St Jean
29 October	Beefbar	Lurin, at Fouquet’s Saint-Barth, above Gustavia
29 October	Black Ginger	Gustavia
29 October	Le Ti St Barth	Pointe Milou
29 October	Pablo	Gustavia
1 November	Airelles Le Guanahani	Grand Cul-de-Sac, the hotel’s tables
4 November	La Guérite	Gustavia
12 November	Kinugawa	St Jean, new address this season, next to the padel courts
25 November	Zuma	Gustavia, new this season, date given by the restaurant
mid-October, to be confirmed	Le Piment	St Jean
November, to be confirmed	Loulou	Shell Beach, Gustavia

The first names open at the very start of October, the big wave comes between 15 and 29 October, and the last of the season’s doors open in the first days of November. If your trip falls in the second half of October, this is the table to read against your dates.

Open through the low season

Ten tables were already trading when the table was drawn up at the start of October: Burger Palace, Cre’Age, L’Esprit, La Pizzetta, Le Grain de Sel, Le Papillon Ivre, Le Repaire, Le Select, Lucali and Mapo. It matches what we see from the island: these are the local tables that feed residents all year, the ones our guide to what stays open in the low season describes.

Still to be confirmed

Two names carry no firm date yet. Le Piment in St Jean is expected around mid-October. Loulou, the new address on Shell Beach in the hands of the Barrière group, says November. Zuma, new to Gustavia, has given a firm date, 25 November, and sits in the table above. We will date the other two here as soon as they are confirmed.

What the hotels are doing

The hotel tables follow the hotels. Cheval Blanc and Le Barthélemy reopen theirs on 22 October, Le Christopher on the 23rd, and Le Guanahani returns on 1 November under its new name, Airelles Le Guanahani. The beach clubs keep the same rhythm: Nikki Beach on 23 October, La Guérite Plage on the 24th, and La Guérite in Gustavia on 4 November. For the hotels themselves, our hotels directory lists every address by area, and the where to stay guide explains what each neighborhood is like.

How to use this list

Confirm each table a few days before you go, because dates slip. Weekly closing days are not on this table and vary from one house to the next. Not every restaurant on the island is a member of the association, so an address missing here is not closed, it is simply not listed, and the directory covers them all. And villas rent all year, so in October the open question is never the base, it is the tables. For the wider picture of the seasons, see our guide on the best time to visit, and for the tables worth booking once they reopen, the best restaurants in St Barts.