Fisherman’s Hut is a Palm Beach staple that locals rely on and smart visitors seek out. It sits at the Playa Linda Beach Resort, J.E. Irausquin Blvd 87, in the middle of the high-rise strip, and runs a separate kiosk down on the sand. The kitchen is built around fresh local catch, and Google has it at 4.4 across 556 reviews (checked October 2026).
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The Infatuation called it the prime place for fresh fish when you’re in Palm Beach and don’t want to dip into your casino budget. That’s a fair description — it’s honest, affordable, and consistently good.
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The full menu with prices — checked October 2026
The restaurant publishes its full menus on its own site, thefishermanshutaruba.com — a lunch menu, a dinner menu and a separate menu for its kiosk on the beach. Everything below comes from those pages, checked October 2026; prices are in US dollars and the card notes that a few seafood items are market price. The printed menu photographed below carries the same dinner dishes and prices.
Dinner — from 4 pm
- Appetizers $16–$20: avocado shrimp and calamari $16, Native Taray seafood soup $17, fried oysters and steamed mussels $18, grilled octopus and fish ceviche $19, shrimp cocktail and conch fritters $20; tacos with fish $18, lomito $20 or shrimp $22
- Salads: Caesar $13 (chicken $17, shrimp $22), feta and watermelon $18
- Pasta $29–$36: carbonara and Southwest chicken Alfredo $29, linguini shrimp $35, spicy seafood marinara $36
- Seafood mains: fish and chips $32, catch of the day $38 (grilled, blackened or fried, with creamy garlic, mango or creole sauce), mixed seafood sauté $38, pineapple curry shrimp $38, pincho land and sea $38, seafood paella and seafood risotto $39, jumbo shrimp $42, conch $45; whole red snapper and lobster are market price
- From the land: St Louis ribs $36, filet mignon $52, rack of lamb $52; land-and-sea combos $53–$68
- Specials: seafood boil $59, Fisherman’s Special for two $120
- Kids $11–$12; desserts $12–$15 (caramel flan $12, mango passion cheesecake $15)
Lunch — 11 am to 4 pm
- Starters $7–$13: funchi and cheese $7, fish cake $9, popcorn shrimp and coconut shrimp $12, ceviche $13
- Tacos $15–$20: chicken $15, shrimp or steak $16, lobster $20
- Soups and salads $11–$22; sandwiches and burgers $12–$20 (catch-of-the-day sandwich $18, beer-batter fish $14, traditional burger $12)
- Pasta $15–$16; entrées $19–$26 (sweet and sour chicken $19, fisherman stew $24, teriyaki beef tenderloin $26)
- Kids $8; desserts $7–$9
The kiosk on the beach — 11 am to 4 pm
- Ceviches: original $16, mango $18, mixed shrimp-fish-octopus $20
- Fried seafood cones $16–$25: calamari or fish and chips $16, popcorn shrimp, grilled or breaded shrimp and mixed seafood $20, crispy salmon $22, fried lobster $25; extra sauces $2
A detail worth knowing: the dinner seafood mains are each named after the local fisherman who supplies the kitchen — the catch of the day is the “Jordan Wernet”, the paella the “Fincho Koolman”. What reviewers actually order: barracuda comes up in 28 Google reviews, red snapper in 14 and coconut shrimp in 9, and recent visitors single out the steamed mussels and the shrimp cocktail.
The Setting
The main restaurant is a covered, open-air room at Playa Linda on the strip — reviewers describe it as casual and breezy, and live music comes up in 58 of its Google reviews. No dress code. For toes-in-the-sand, its kiosk down on the beach serves ceviches and fried seafood cones from 11 am to 4 pm.
Practical Information
Address: Playa Linda Beach Resort, J.E. Irausquin Blvd 87, Palm Beach (Noord), Aruba
Phone: +297 280 8787
Hours: Monday to Saturday 11 am–4 pm and 5:30–10:30 pm; Sunday dinner only, 6–10:30 pm (per the restaurant’s Google listing, October 2026 — its own menu pages label lunch 11 am–4 pm and dinner from 4 pm)
Typical spend: lunch mains $12–$26, dinner mains $29–$52; Google diners report AWG 20–100 a person, roughly $11–$56 at the 1.79 peg
Service: dine-in, takeaway and delivery; reservations recommended for dinner, especially sunset slots
Website:thefishermanshutaruba.com
Our verdict
Come at lunch or order from the beach kiosk if you are watching the budget — sandwiches, tacos and seafood cones run $12 to $20, against $38-and-up seafood mains at dinner. At dinner the order is the catch of the day at $38 — reviewers chase the barracuda, mentioned in 28 reviews — and the $120 Fisherman’s Special feeds two as the splurge. Live music is a genuine part of the draw, with 58 reviews mentioning it. Two things to plan around: there is no lunch service on Sundays, and dinner around sunset is the slot worth reserving ahead.
See the full Palm Beach dining guide for more great restaurants nearby.
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