This Aruba Resort Is Getting an Eatery From a Michelin-Starred Chef

By: - April 15th, 2025
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The Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort is green, too.

Aruba has quietly been developing a rather high-level culinary scene. In many ways, it began years ago with the island’s Carte Blanche, a restaurant that eventually spawned several other top eateries, including Olivia and Wilhelmina (the latter long one of our favorite places to dine in Aruba).

Carte Blanche was the island’s first true chef’s table restaurant, and now Aruba is home to what we’ve described as the Caribbean capital of them: small, intimate, chef-guided eateries with fixed tasting menus and outstanding, sophisticated gastronomy (that includes Ever, recently named as one of the Caribbean’s 50 best restaurant). 

What you may not know is that for a number of years, the headquarters of Carte Blanche was at Ewald Biemans’ always-innovative Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort, Aruba’s most sustainable hotel, and one that is always tinkering and coming up with cool new concepts. 

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Aruba is home to an increasing number of high-level restaurants like Ever, above.

The newest one at the resort is, well, a rather proven concept: the Michelin-star chef. And this summer, Aruba is getting its first-ever restaurant by a Michelin-starred chef: Jeremy Ford, who is opening his Terra by Jeremy Ford at the property. 

Ford is the culinary master behind Miami’s Michelin-starred Stubborn Seed, and he’s taking his culinary talents to Eagle Beach. 

The concept, according to Bucuti is, all about Aruba: Ford and the Terra team are “working directly with local Aruban chefs, farmers and artisans to co-create a menu that honors Aruba’s unique culinary heritage while introducing innovative global techniques.”

The idea is what Biemans calls “a dining experience unlike anything the Caribbean has ever seen.”

It’s an exciting new addition to Aruba, and yet another creative move for Bucuti. And when it opens, it will instantly be among the best restaurants in Aruba.

About the author

Alexander Britell is the founder and editor-in-chief of Caribbean Journal and one of the top experts on Caribbean travel worldwide, with decades of on-the-ground travel to the region and comprehensive knowledge of the entire Caribbean Basin.
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