Half-Board - A Delicious Multiple Choice at Mocking Bird Hill

Half board at Mocking Bird Hill comprises a slow, luxurious breakfast and a delicious fusion style 3-course a la carte menu for dinner. Our menus are seasonally led and the ingredients for each of the dishes are sourced locally to ensure:

a) food miles are kept to an absolute minimum

and

b) members of the local community who act as our suppliers also benefit from this form of sustainable tourism

Breakfast

A leisurely cooked breakfast is a great way to start the day; energized and raring to go discover Jamaica. We believe that, alongside the ambiance it is eaten in, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and therefore pay as much attention to its details as any other meal served.

Complimentary Tea & Coffee

For those that want to take in our panoramic morning vistas, we advice getting up for your morning tea or coffee between 7.00-8.00 am, it’s a great time for light. Even before starting your breakfast you can enjoy complimentary tea or coffee; incidentally, we make freshly brewed Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee in small batches… no “thin, brown dishwater” that is “stewed” for hours on a warm plate! There are (unlimited) large mugs of it. We like more than a mug ourselves so expect to give our guests nothing less than we’d expect.

Fresh Fruit & Freshly Pressed Juice

To start with we recommend indulging in a plate of fresh, local and seasonal fruits and a glass of our genuinely freshly-pressed juice.

Home Made Muesli

We go to great lengths to make sure you enjoy highly nutritional and healthy foods and therefore make our own Muesli with oven roasted grated coconut, nuts and dried fruits, but no added sugar. You can sweeten it to your personal taste with natural honey. We suggest trying it with our homemade natural yoghurt which is made from one of our small independent farm suppliers, it’s delicious.

Eggs

You have a free choice of cooked eggs prepared any which way you would like, poached, fried, boiled or scrambled. For omelette lovers we can prepare these with various different ingredients such as onions, tomatoes, callaloo, cheese, peppers, bacon or sausage. Talking about eggs, you will see the difference in the colour, taste & size of our eggs, which we source from free-range chickens, fed as naturally as possible.

Vegetarians & Vegans

Don’t worry if you are a vegetarian or vegan, we offer you a choice too! Whether it is fried mushrooms & tomatoes with fresh herbs on toast, or potato & onion fritters with scrambled tofu, either will leave you sated & content.

Freshly Baked Breads

We offer a wide selection of home-made breads which are baked fresh daily on the property, accompanied by a selection of home-made jams with not a plastic container in site! A wonderful cheese plate is available, including a selection of locally made artisan goat cheeses for you to try, chevre with herbs or pepper, a Camembert like cheese called Tom’s Hope and a homemade Brie.

It’s not just the ingredients that make up the breakfast – the atmosphere counts a great deal and again we based the Mocking Bird Hill experience on what we appreciate; therefore no canned or piped music to jerk or shock you awake. Simply enjoy the quiet serenity with just the birds, with the breeze gently stirring the fresh flowers on your table.

For those with children, over your drinks we will arrange with you and them what they will be eating for their evening supper. Our evening meals are geared towards adults so to cater to children’s individual tastes and preferences we ask you and them personally what they would like whipped up for dinner; one perennial favourite is pasta with our homemade tomato sauce, chicken and cheese, but as said it’s their choice!

For those that like to eat punctually at 7.00 we will at this time give you the evening menus so that you can make your selections and we can have it ready for you on the dot.

A La Carte Menu Selection

The menu at Mille Fleurs Restaurant is a daily changing choice of 3-4 dishes for each course, that is entirely determined by what is being harvested at the moment.

Each course has a selection of either seafood/fish, meat/ chicken & vegetarian options to comfortably cater for all diet types apart from Meatless Mondays, when the menu is purely vegetarian

Because we buy locally from independent farmers, fishermen and other suppliers we are dependent on the vagrancies of the market. This can be determined by occasional rough seas, which in turn means that the fishermen in their small boats can't go out, or for example as has been the case after a hurricane when all the banana crop was destroyed and we had no bananas! It would be easy to look to imports to stop the gap, but we prefer to be creative with our menus and promote sustainable tourism, in which members of the local community all benefit from our guests’ visits to Jamaica.

Examples of our daily changing menus. All are served with , “amuse-bouche”, a selection of freshly baked breads and flavoured butters and complimentary homemade after dinner sweets.


Starters & Soups	Main Courses	Desserts

Given our location in the rural countryside, we do have to plan ahead, pre-order and source ingredients ahead for those with special diets and would request at the time of your booking your alert us to any special needs that you have so that we are fully able to cater for you and avoid any form of disappointment.

For those who need their meat and fish and don't wish to have the meal plan on a Meatless Monday, there is the alternative to cancel the mealplan for the whole day and for your morning breakfast instead order from the a la carte breakfast menu. We can assist you in making a reservation at another Port Antonio restaurant.

A 'Half Board' supplement of US $84.00 per day is available which includes the legendary special Hotel Mocking Bird Hill breakfast and a 3-course a la carte dinner in the evening at Mille Fleurs Restaurant.

The 'Breakfast Only' option is available for US$ 26.00. For a special Mille Fleurs breakfast (fresh juice, fruit plate, cereal, muesli with yoghurt or milk, eggs to order, assortment of home-made baked breads, cheese plate, jams, coffee or tea)

Children Meal Plan US$ 42.00 for children under 12 years.