We generally hit Friars once or twice every trip and we love our long and leisurely lunches at Friars Bay Beach Cafe. In all our many days there I can honestly say we thought people were nuts when they spoke of the sewer-like odor until a year or two ago when we finally experienced it ourselves for the first time. We came in via the road that takes you directly into the FBBC parking area and we smelled the odor the moment we got out of the car, but when we walked into the cafe the odor had dissipated and there was no trace of it on the beach. I know it was real because they had incense diffusers in the restaurant but when we went back inside to eat lunch they were gone as was the odor. We have never seen any indication of sewage entering the water there and would not go there if we did..