Exploring Grand Bahama (if you can ever leave the beach)

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By Karan Smith


The chef who founded an award winning fine dining restaurant on Grand Bahama Island and his guide on where to go eat and stay while visiting. 

‘The fishing is fantastic: yellow fin, mahi mahi, which we call dolphin fish. I love mutton snapper; it has this incredible sweetness to it. After that you’ve got the spiny lobster and the stone crab, the crème de la crème. … It’s really the ocean that has sustained us,’ says Tim Tibbitts, a Canadian-raised chef who runs Flying Fish, a four-diamond-AAA-rated restaurant in Freeport, with his sommelier wife, Rebecca.