Who you are dealing with
da Tribe cooks out of its own kitchen in Villa, St. Vincent & the Grenadines. The founder, Mauricia Fessal, runs it. WhatsApp or call +1 (784) 496-3155, any day. Prices on this site are in EC dollars with US dollars alongside, at 1 USD = 2.71 ECD.
How a plan works
Plans run in 28-day months, and you can start any day. Pick lunch, dinner or both; three, five or seven days a week; the Everyday menu (Essential) or the Premium menu (Focused and Full Immersion). Tell us your week once and the kitchen remembers it. Change your days or your meals for the next month by message; we confirm in writing.
Delivery
A lunch run and a dinner run, every day your plan covers, term or not; breakfast comes early. We deliver along the south coast of mainland St. Vincent, Cane Garden to Brighton, to wherever you are: your apartment, your campus housing, your holiday stay. We don't print a clock time here: the runs keep a rhythm, and you'll know yours inside your first week. If your week changes, say so the night before and we move with you. And to be plain about it: we deliver on mainland St. Vincent only — nothing we cook ships off-island.
Paying
Bank transfer, the card machine at your door, or cash. Our prices are in EC dollars; the US figure beside each one is a guide at 1 USD = 2.71 ECD, and the card machine charges in EC dollars. US and Canadian dollars are welcome. You tell us the plan, we send an invoice with every detail, and you get a written confirmation the moment it lands; your 28 days count from your first delivery. We don't take cards online yet: the card machine comes to your door, and bank transfer works from anywhere.
The rate lock
The rate you start with never goes up for as long as you stay on the island. New prices only ever apply to new subscribers.
Pausing
Need a week off? One message. Your plan pauses, your rate stays. Tell us by the night before, and the days you skip go to the end of your plan, so your renewal date moves with them and nothing is lost. Message us to pause →
Leaving early, and refunds
Life moves people off this island mid-month; that's medicine. Tell us your flight date before your plan renews and we bill only the days you're here. Already paid and leaving early? Those days stay yours as meals: use them before you fly, or bank them for next term. We don't refund in cash, we refund in dinners. One message sorts it, no forms.
Cancelling
Want to stop for good, not pause? One message, and your plan simply doesn't renew: it runs to the end of the cycle you've already paid for, and then it ends. The days you've paid for and haven't used don't come back — not as meals, not as money. That's because the service starts when you sign up, not when you eat: your meals are planned and your ingredients are sourced up front, so deciding after that that you want to stop is fine, but you forfeit the days that are left. You cancelled, not paused.
So there are three ways to leave a plan, and they're not the same:
Pause — you keep everything. One message, your plan pauses, your rate stays, and the skipped days go to the end of your plan.
Leaving the island — tell us your flight date before your plan renews and we bill only the days you're here; days already paid stay yours as meals — eaten before you fly, or banked for next term.
Cancel — your plan ends when the paid cycle ends, and the paid days left over are forfeit.
Not sure which one is you? Message us before you stop and we'll sort it together.
If we get it wrong
A missed delivery, a wrong order, a dish that isn't what you asked for: tell us straight. We'd rather fix it than not know. It's replaced on the next run, or that day goes back on your plan.
Allergies and preferences
Halal, kosher, vegetarian, vegan, and plain preferences: tell us once, no surcharge, no sad side-salad version. Gluten and allergies: we cook plenty of dishes made without gluten-containing ingredients — but one kitchen handles wheat flour, nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish, and if you tell us what you need to avoid, we will always give you a straight answer about what is in any dish. Coeliac disease or a severe allergy? Message us before you start, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right kitchen for you.
Your details
Your name, your number and your address are used to feed you and for nothing else. We don't sell them and we don't share them. The full story of what we hold, and what we never will, is at /privacy.
Last updated 24 August 2026. Day to day, what we told you on WhatsApp is what goes — your week, your dishes, your deliveries: that's the conversation we actually had. On money — prices, paying, refunds, cancelling, the rate lock — this page is the deal, for both of us.