Caribbean Restaurant of the Year: Baoase Culinary Beach Restaurant, Caribbean Journal scours the region each year for its list of the 50 Best Restaurants in the Caribbean (the 2017 edition of which will be released in a few weeks). But every year, one restaurant comes out on top. And this year, it’s the magnificent Baoase Culinary Beach Restaurant at the Baoase Luxury Resort in Curaçao, an eatery that combines an intoxicating toes-in-the-sand setting to marvelously creative international cuisine and impeccable service.