Mario's Bistrotmahokid3 hours agoThursday was the nicest day of our arrival with time spent in the pool and our first time bobbing in the ocean watching the planes landing over our heads.
We chose Mario's Bistrot to celebrate our 31st anniversary. A guard will allow your car to enter the Cliffs residence which looks like a very nice property.
For the offer season, Mario's is offering a $50 3 course prix fixe, a nice way to sample his food which is usually on the pricer side although this dishes are complicated and plentiful.
There is a choice of 6 starters and 5 entrees. Most dishes were familiar from previous visits.
My wife started off with a combination of tuna and wahoo sashimi garnished with a crab maki roll. Pristine pieces of fish.
My starter was even better, duck nachos with a hoison sauce.
Entrees were actually big for our diminishing appetites. My wife enjoyed seared rare tuna, crispy green beans, a purre that tasted like parsnips although pinkish in color.
My fresh mahi also with greens beans was accompanied with a pumpkin risotto ball and a red pepper puree.
We only ate half our entrees.
Dessert choices are limited to sorbet, ice cream or a dessert very similar to profiteroles.
A firmer pastry was filled with vanilla ice cream and finished with whip cream and a wonderful caramel sauce.
We throughly enjoyed our evening and thanked Mario on the way out. Both of Mario's long time servers are no longer working for him since we have followed him back to his days in sandy ground.
We played an hour of slots at Starz and almost left even until the last machine took $20. Still not bad for an hour of entertainment
I was last down in June of 2025 and just completed our charter contract for June 207. I went onto the boatyball.com site and noticed something very odd. When I looked at the map today, there was not one boatyball showing reserved. Has something changed?
Any insight from those familiar would be appreciated. Cheers
Favorite places for snorkelingcalle3138 hours agoHi! What´s your favorite places for snorkeling, where you don´t need to book a boat to get there? Renting a kayak would be fine, or preferably accessible from a beach! Where is the best chance of seeing marine wildlife, turtles and other cool stuff? Are there any coral reefs on St. Martin, where are they located?
Let’s start….Friday, we went to Buccaneers for a beach day. We got there about 11:00 so we had Bloody Marys and a Club Sandwch between the two of us. Very good! We’ve never been disappointed at Bucaneers. After breakfast, we went to the beach and had a swim. Ordered a bucket of beer and proceeded to chill when it started pouring! After about 5 nminutes we decided to just go and get cover in the restaurant. Of course once we finished the beer, the rain stopped! Nice day nonetheless
Saturday, we stayed at “home” nice day at the pool and dinner here.
Sunday and Monday were cruddy days…got Leo to cook a lasagna as definitely not beach days. Although it was good, not the best he’s made.
Monday we went on a shopping spree to Ma Doudou for gifts (list of requests), Super U to replenish our cupboard
Tuesday was a day to Anse Marcel beach, all was closed but beach was still beautiful.
Wednesday we spent the day in Grande Case Beach, it was beautiful. We had a lovely conversation with a “local” which gave us a lot of suggestions on the island. Said best ox tail is at Chez Coco in Marigot (will check it out)! After our day at the beach we headed to the lolos…went to Talk of the Town for some ribs. Ribs there have always been good..not that day! We had apps of crab backs and shrimp skewers (really good) ribs, rice and peas and cole slaw. Took away leftover ribs (I’m sure I can fix lol)
Thursday…Today stayed at Orient Beach. Beach was nice although with a little sargassum, met a couple from Syracuse that were here on a cruise (not first timers to SXM). As I had leftover ribs from last night which I needed to “fix”,…our dinner will be the ribs and a pizza from Bona Mama. We had the Pistachio Pizza at Mahokid’s place which we thought had great ingredients and the crust just needed a little extra cooking…we’ll find out tonight!
Blind CreekstangiedYesterday at01:44 PMHas anyone on here been to Blind Creek in the last few days? Has there been being a lot of seaweed lately? We are going down in a few days and I know that the seaweed situation can change day by day but was wanting to know how it is now?
Wednesday, pizza italymahokidYesterday at01:40 PMWith some clouds in the morning, we took a quick trip to Marigot. There was absolutely no traffic.
We filled up gas tank at cadisco. 1:1
Pastries at chez Ferdinand bakery including the last elusive pistachio crossiant. A croque monsuier was shared for breakfast. Good selection of desserts and baked goods at reasonable pricing.
To the best of my knowledge, a parking disc is now required and limited to 1.5 hours in certain spots of marigot. We parked back along the water where large iguanas were basking on the boulders.
Maybe it was early (900am) but many of the container restaurants were not open as well as only a few ladies selling their goods.
The fish stall did have some nice looking fresh fish
Next we picked up some needed supplies to finish out our stay. Carrefour has a very good meat selection including tomahawk chops imported from France. Thier fresh fish selection also looked good.
Along the way back to maho we stopped to feed the dogs who live just near the roundabout close to the end of the run near the large billboards.
We honked our horn a about 6 ran out from the back bushes along with a person person who I believe is homeless who said the dogs care for them. Apologies as we were sure on the sex of the person but they were friendly and more than appreciative.
We gave them a bag of meat leftovers and shared them with the gentle dogs keeping some for some more dogs in the back or maybe for themselves.
Either way , we felt good to help.
The rest of the day was pool chat with week 35 owners. Saba showed herself in all her majesty.
Dinner was at Pizza Italy in simpson bay. Sheriff always remembers my wife's name and her drink.
He works hard taking all the orders, making drinks and serving.
I was surprised to find a creamy ball of burrata in the center of our generous antipasto. Do not miss the foccia with a drizzle of olive oil.
Our meat lovers pizza was extremely thin crust and very good. A couple shots of limoncella ended our dinner.
About 7 minutes later we continue past maho to the starz casino now located in Jordan village. All the same slotsand artwork, no table games. Almost empty, smoking but drinks are offered before you even make that first bet. We play the same slot machines when the casino was in Cupecoy and our luck continue with the loose machines.
We have doubled our initial deposit the last two nights while enjoying a nice amount of time.
There is ample close by parking and about 6 restaurants but no La Gondolo or Temptation which are missed
I think that the slots at casino royale are very tight!!
The road from maho through the golf course is bumpy but much worse on the way back.
Is Tipflation occurring on SXM?TJTrippeYesterday at12:40 PMI think it is. With all the fuzzy service charges, vague server explanations. Also, a fancy French side restaurant choosing to present my bill converted to dollars with the expectation of a tip from USA customers.
Driftwood / Altromahokid09/02/202610:46 PMWith not much leftover in the fridge, we walked across the pool area to the Driftwood (boat bar)
Seems the menu has expanded and food prices as well but still a good local find and not terribly commercialized.
A reggae version of dolly partons I will always love you seemed appropriate as the Dolly storm had just exited the island. My wife rum punch was strong and the Amsti bright were cold.
My oxtail stew was off the bone heaven on a plate served with side salad and rice.
My wife's chicken sandwich was good.
Always fun to watch the planes and the idiots watching the planes.
Keeping with our game plan, we got Altro off our list.
We made reservations at Rendezvous with Natalie and wished Claudette who wad socializing ( out and about photographer) a happy belated birthday since the jazz brunch was canceled last week due to weather.
Not sure there is a more charismatic server on the island than Sammie at Altro. His longtime staff partner Laura is on vacation. It was very slow so he handled all service.
The prix fix is now a whopping $41 for 3 perfect sized courses for our diminishing appetites.
The tuna appetizer was bright red and just a bit of spice. I chose the Healthy eggplant, also very enjoyable.
My fish pot of moist salmon, mahi also had several mussels, potatoes and a shrimp served in a rich, deep lobster bisque base.
My wife's mahi mahi was cooked perfectly, the leftovers today wete still moist. You could tell the fish was fresh.
We took home a coffee tiramisui, while the warm chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream did the trick for me.
Two shot glasses and a small carafe of mild passionfruit rum completed a very nice evening.
There is a new restaurant next door called The Living room. Also offering a prix fix and a la carte.
Hopefully pictures will attach.
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ESim Cardbran09/02/202604:41 PMOnly just found out about this digital method. Recs, comments please appreciated and what works on both sides, texts, WhatsApp, etc. and includes Anguilla? Heard conflicting reports re Airolo and another mentioned Caribconnect. Great to hear from those who used these Companies, reliability, and how you found it price wise plus ease of use? TIA.
Chill day phillipsburgmahokid09/01/202609:11 PMWith Dolly still filling the sky with clouds, we made a quick stop into DK Gems to have a diamond reset into a ring. Unfortunately we need to return to pburg to pick it up.
Stopped into Laurent store which sells my favorite shirt designer for a quick hello. He will be celebrating his 20th year in pburg and has teamed with Robert Graham to release a limited edition st Martin shirt in December. He would not give away any details and I believe he said production will be limited and only sold at his store.
Our next stop was to Tag heuer and purchased a limited edition casual orange banded timepiece. They only received one this past Friday and only 1500 where produced. My new favorite watch.
We did get a few hours in the pool chatting with friends who had just checked in the night before.
We met them at dingy dock for happy hour. Brianna the bartender was great and originally from philadelphia do we cheer for tge same teams.
Some good beer on tap helped wash down their awesome upside down nachos and some shrimp wrapped in a jalapeño with whip cream
A chill night a donation to casino royale. Machines are very tight while group of pool friends from La Plage all did well at blackjack table.
