Food & Drink of Sint Maarten
All the major hotels have restaurants with international cuisine. Pick up a free tourist guide to choose from the myriad restaurants now open on St Maarten with food from all over the world.
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In Philipsburg:
Le Bec Fin, Front Street 119, French, elegant, favoured by the Dutch Royal Family and winner of awards, T22976 for reservations. Highly recommended. Le Bec Fin Café serves American and seafood. Front Street is full of good restaurants and even a Burger King. Americanized French at L’Escargot, Front Street 84, T22483.
Da Livio, west end, T22690. High class Italian restaurant on waterfront, run by Livio Bergamasco and his British wife, excellent seafood and pasta, not cheap, pastas from US$9, main courses from US$24. San Marco, Front Street, is an Italian restaurant, nice location overlooking sea, good for a break from shopping, T22166.
Shiv Sagar, Front Street 3, T22299. For Indian food, large portions, Tandoori specialities; Indonesian rijsttafel at the hotels. For the budget minded try Back Street where you mostly find Chinese and roti places. Grill and Ribs, Simpson Bay Road, T54498. The best ribs on the island, all you can eat for US$12.95, reservations essential.
In the Simpson Bay Area:
Turtle Pier Bar and Restaurant, Airport Road 80, T52230. Reasonably priced at US$10 maximum per dish with an interesting setting in a mini zoo with parrots, monkeys, turtles et cetera, live music 2 or 3 times a week; Lynette’s, Airport Road, T52865. Local restaurant with good seafood and steak quite close to airport US$40 per person including wine and tip, weekly calypso revue with King Beau Beau, and upstairs is Clayton’s sport bar, where you can see most major sporting events on a big screen TV.
Don Carlos, T53112. Tasty Mexican food, US$10-15 per person for dinner, open daily 0730-2230, Mexican buffet Thursday, US$12.95, all you can eat. Boat House, T45409. For drinks and food, live music several times a week, reservations essential. Recommended. Tokyo Atlantis Casino. Cupecoy, sushi bar and restaurant. The Greenhouse Bar and Restaurant, next to Bobby’s Marina at Great Bay, T22941. View over yachts, menu includes hamburgers, steak and local fish, disc jockey, dancing, Tuesday night 2drinks for the price of 1.
Rembrandt Café at New Amsterdam shopping centre. A Dutch coffee shop/café, very popular for late drinks, best after 2100-2200. The most popular bars with nice sunsets are Greenhouse and Chesterfield, Great Bay, T23484. Where you can find yachtsmen if you want to hitchhike by boat.
Drink:
The traditional local liqueur is guavaberry, made from rum and the local berries, whose botanical name is Eugenia Floribunda. They are not related to guavas. The berries are found on the hills and ripen just before Christmas. Used nowadays mostly in cocktails.
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