A tatty hippie outpost that sits like an island of good taste amid an ocean of insipid all-inclusive buffets. Cosmo’s, in Negril-speak, is a synonym for 'fantastic seafood.' Eschew fine dining for burying your toes in the sand at a beachside picnic table – the plates of melt-in-your-mouth lobster, grilled fish and curried conch are deliciously spicy.
Cosmo’s
Negril
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