This is an all-inclusive resort, where they will charge your room five dollars for a litre bottle of water and then pour you ten ounces of Napoleon brandy "no charge."
Of course, the day revolves around food. The dining room is a regimented space where formidable hostesses wield almost limitless power over where you will sit, which benefice is granted at breakfast only after you have made a reservation for where and when you will eat dinner.
There are two choices of where you can eat dinner. Either the Sunset dining room which is most but not all nights a buffet, and Enid's, a sit-down restaurant. The buffet splits itself between "Bajan" (local) cooking and food the British patrons most like to eat - especially when it comes to dessert. Enid's focuses on Caribbean cuisine, and is my preferred spot of the two. This is not to say the food's not good in the Sunset - I just prefer a la carte to buffet.
The best food we've had so far:
- chicken wings with a guava barbecue sauce at Enid's
- Rum Jumbi beef at Enid's
- bbq'd flank steak at Sunset - not served on the buffet but hot off the outdoor grill and done just the way I like it
- bbq'd chicken at Sunset - also hot off the grill
- and fish fritters at Sunset - fresh out of the giant steaming pot of super hot fat
So this isn't a health club-type resort.
The desserts are also split between Bajan and British, and, after some taste-testing, I have decided to stay away from both. Bruce, on the other hand, has enjoyed trifle, bread pudding and custard (hot!) and, today, two unidentifiable and truly appalling concoctions that defy description.
Thanks for reading!
Tomorrow, drinks!
Karen
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