I am not personally familiar with that building, and had no idea where Arbor Estates is, until I looked at the link, but it is not particularly near Simpson Bay. It is in Jordan Village area, which is in Cupecoy. There are a ton of great restaurants there. Most are what I would put in the category of "really good food, not gourmet, but not at gourmet prices" either. Unfortunately, if French food is your preference, there are not going to be a ton of great French restaurants close by. The best French restaurant on the Dutch side is probably Le Moulin Fou, which is in Maho. Maho is about a five-minute drive from Jordan Village, but you definitely would have to drive at night, because you go through Mullet Bay, which is dark at night. You have Sublime in Maho also, that I would put in the French food category, and very good food.

As far as walking from that particular building to Jordan Village at night, I have no idea how doable that is, as I don't know that area that well. If you're reasonably fit, you could certainly walk to Cupecoy or Mullet during the day. If you patronize Orient because of the Club O beach, Cupecoy has a long history of nude beach use, although the sand there comes and goes. There is one vendor there on Cupecoy, most of the time, but most people probably bring their own stuff there. Mullet is a huge, long stretch of beach, with tons of chairs to rent and two beach restaurants. Rosies would remind you of Pedro's, sort, of, but without any topless or naked people. laugh Da Watering Hole is there too, not my personal favorite, but they have standard burgers, etc. there. NO fine restaurants on the beach at either Cupecoy or Mullet though.

Overall, as to whether that location is similar to Orient?? Yeah, there are lots of restaurants there in Jordan Village, but not beach restaurants. And Cupecoy in general has a lot of high rise buildings, so that certainly does not remind one of the French side.


Carol Hill