Hendo’s Hideout is the polished end of White Bay. Where the Soggy Dollar is a wooden bar in the sand, Hendo’s is a proper restaurant with a chef, a boutique, a lounge with real furniture, and a line of orange umbrellas and loungers along the water’s edge. It sits at the eastern end of the beach, a two-minute walk from the Soggy Dollar and One Love, and when guests wanted a sit-down lunch on White Bay rather than a burger at the bar, this is where we brought them.

Walk through Hendo’s Hideout with Us

Ninety seconds from the sand to the bar, the boutique and the lounge, filmed by Get Crewed. Press play; nothing loads until you do.

1:33 · Hendo’s Hideout, White Bay

Filmed by Get Crewed. Music: Tin Spirit, Freedom Trail Studio (YouTube Audio Library).

What to Expect at Hendo’s Hideout

Hendo’s opened in March 2016, built by the O’Neal-Henderson family, and it was designed from the start to be more than a beach bar. There is a covered restaurant with a timber roof and an open-air lounge with sofas and low tables, a full bar, a boutique that sells the best resort wear on the island, and a stretch of beach set with orange umbrellas, loungers and picnic tables. Beach chairs and umbrellas are free if you are eating and drinking, and the shaded ones go early. On the sand there is a volleyball net and cornhole boards, which is why families and groups end up staying the whole afternoon.

The kitchen serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a farm-to-table approach and local fish. Reviewers keep coming back to the blackened fish tacos, the ceviche, the grilled snapper and the lobster, and the cocktails get compared favourably to the Soggy Dollar’s by people who have tried both in the same afternoon. Thursday is sushi night, and there is a Sunday brunch. The same family runs The Hideout, the accommodation next door, so the place is staffed like a small resort rather than a bar.

Our Take, Having Brought Guests Here for Three Seasons

If your group wants one proper lunch on White Bay, book it here. The food is a step up from everything else on the beach, the loungers are comfortable, and it is the one bar on White Bay where you can get out of the sun for an hour without leaving the beach. It is also the calmest end of the bay: the day boats and ferries land in the middle, so Hendo’s stays civilised even at two in the afternoon on a Saturday. Have the Painkiller at the Soggy Dollar first, because that is the rule, then walk east and settle in.

Tell your crew you want lunch ashore so the chef does not cook for you twice. They will book a table, and the reservation matters in high season.

Getting There on Your Crewed Charter

White Bay has no dock, so you arrive the same way you arrive at every bar on this beach: your catamaran anchors inside the reef and you swim or take the dinghy in. Hendo’s is at the eastern end, so your captain will anchor toward that side of the bay to shorten the swim, and the beach in front is wide and gentle for landing a tender. White Bay is a day stop rather than an overnight one; before dark we move around the corner to Great Harbour or across to Little Jost Van Dyke, and Hendo’s is an easy dinner to plan the day around before you go.

The Soggy Dollar, One Love and Gertrude’s are a few minutes’ walk west along the sand, and we filmed walkthroughs of every bar on the beach so you can compare them before you pick.

Hendo’s Hideout Questions We Get Asked

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