Forums39
Topics38,605
Posts311,855
Members26,557
|
Most Online2,218 Jan 21st, 2020
|
|
16 registered members (Midsouth, TravelHat, George1234, SharonfromSXM, YachtReprise, jagmansr, SteveH, Kennys, jbutah, Lionsail, SXMScubaman, Teresasxm, 4 invisible),
638
guests, and 147
spiders. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179865
01/07/2019 09:57 AM
01/07/2019 09:57 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527 Ohio
ruralcarrier
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527
Ohio
|
So, they probably should have the server only with tongs handing em out because not everybody uses tongs and everybody using tongs might be as bad. This practice has been going on for years at this place and a reason why I will not go there. It has been pointed out multiple times on this board also.
J.D.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179866
01/07/2019 10:08 AM
01/07/2019 10:08 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734 Central Florida!
Carol_Hill
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734
Central Florida!
|
I mistakenly thought the ones in the case cost money and the ones in the basket were a gift like bread at dinner.
Did your wife say "I told you so!!" Never eaten there myself, don't think I will, due to that policy.
Carol Hill
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179882
01/07/2019 10:54 AM
01/07/2019 10:54 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,288
PelicanPirate
OP
Traveler
|
OP
Traveler
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,288
|
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179898
01/07/2019 11:45 AM
01/07/2019 11:45 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 167
mgh
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 167
|
Been there many time and have enjoyed it as well, I don't however take any of the pastries from the basket for the same reason. Always a must stop for us when we're on island though.
mgh
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179932
01/07/2019 02:28 PM
01/07/2019 02:28 PM
|
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 552 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
KGB
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 552
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
|
Guys you are holerious! You refuse to eat a pastry at the cafe but ok to eat from LOLOS, Cupecoy food or the airport food! Do you think these guys wash their hands every time they are using the “bathroom”? Oops, sorry, there is no bathroom! I can bet you anything that the amount of germs at all these places is pretty much equal! After been to sxm probably 15 times, the only place where I got stomach sick was an Italian restaurant in Maho that everyone was raving about! Maybe we are just lucky. Been going to ZeeBest from day one since they were a hole in a wall in Marigot and never had a problem. Their pastry is delicious! Yeah I know it’s not good for you but.... we’re there only for two weeks! At least this is the excuse we are using, LOL! If you worry about the pastry that was brought to you- just ask for the fresh one.
"Often Wrong, Never in Doubt"
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: RonDon]
#179940
01/07/2019 03:06 PM
01/07/2019 03:06 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734 Central Florida!
Carol_Hill
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734
Central Florida!
|
OK, well, what's included in a room rate, versus what you get when you go to a restaurant that's not where you're staying, is different.
Carol Hill
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: RonDon]
#179952
01/07/2019 03:35 PM
01/07/2019 03:35 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734 Central Florida!
Carol_Hill
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 82,734
Central Florida!
|
Someone else in the thread said that they were told that the croissants in the basket were extra at Zee Best. I don't know, as I don't actually think we've ever eaten there.
Carol Hill
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179955
01/07/2019 03:45 PM
01/07/2019 03:45 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 14,646 Brookfield, CT.
pat
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 14,646
Brookfield, CT.
|
We were always ‘told’ about the pastry deal all the way back to Marigot and the original owner, and his son once he came on board, and his wife, too, once they got married, and I was always okay with it. Until, that is, I saw a family with little ones AND the parents pawing through the basket and handling each pastry before ultimately making their choices. That turned me off completely and while we might still go there on occasion for breakfast, I’ll stop by their bakery store and buy my pastries to go.
Respectfully,
pat
"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: PelicanPirate]
#179962
01/07/2019 04:31 PM
01/07/2019 04:31 PM
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 5,294
Kennys
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 5,294
|
We do use them but never the Baskets with Pastry.
Last edited by Kennys; 01/07/2019 04:49 PM.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SurferMike]
#179981
01/07/2019 05:50 PM
01/07/2019 05:50 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736 Auburn, WA
SXMScubaman
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736
Auburn, WA
|
SMYC eggs Benedict are very good.
Last edited by SXMScubaman; 01/07/2019 07:32 PM.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: KGB]
#179982
01/07/2019 05:51 PM
01/07/2019 05:51 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736 Auburn, WA
SXMScubaman
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736
Auburn, WA
|
Guys you are holerious! You refuse to eat a pastry at the cafe but ok to eat from LOLOS, Cupecoy food or the airport food! Do you think these guys wash their hands every time they are using the “bathroom”? Oops, sorry, there is no bathroom! I can bet you anything that the amount of germs at all these places is pretty much equal! After been to sxm probably 15 times, the only place where I got stomach sick was an Italian restaurant in Maho that everyone was raving about! Maybe we are just lucky. Been going to ZeeBest from day one since they were a hole in a wall in Marigot and never had a problem. Their pastry is delicious! Yeah I know it’s not good for you but.... we’re there only for two weeks! At least this is the excuse we are using, LOL! If you worry about the pastry that was brought to you- just ask for the fresh one. The LOLOs in Grand Case and the airport have restrooms to wash up.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#179995
01/07/2019 07:11 PM
01/07/2019 07:11 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527 Ohio
ruralcarrier
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527
Ohio
|
SBYC eggs Benedict are very good. What is SBYC?
J.D.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: ruralcarrier]
#180004
01/07/2019 07:34 PM
01/07/2019 07:34 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736 Auburn, WA
SXMScubaman
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736
Auburn, WA
|
SBYC eggs Benedict are very good. What is SBYC? Supposed to be SMYC. Corrected it. Thanks. I knew you'd catch it. LOL
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: KGB]
#180013
01/07/2019 08:28 PM
01/07/2019 08:28 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 705 South Coast of MA
SXMBND
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 705
South Coast of MA
|
Guys you are holerious! You refuse to eat a pastry at the cafe but ok to eat from LOLOS, Cupecoy food or the airport food! Do you think these guys wash their hands every time they are using the “bathroom”? Oops, sorry, there is no bathroom! I can bet you anything that the amount of germs at all these places is pretty much equal! After been to sxm probably 15 times, the only place where I got stomach sick was an Italian restaurant in Maho that everyone was raving about! Maybe we are just lucky. Been going to ZeeBest from day one since they were a hole in a wall in Marigot and never had a problem. Their pastry is delicious! Yeah I know it’s not good for you but.... we’re there only for two weeks! At least this is the excuse we are using, LOL! If you worry about the pastry that was brought to you- just ask for the fresh one. X2
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#180014
01/07/2019 08:29 PM
01/07/2019 08:29 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 705 South Coast of MA
SXMBND
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 705
South Coast of MA
|
Guys you are holerious! You refuse to eat a pastry at the cafe but ok to eat from LOLOS, Cupecoy food or the airport food! Do you think these guys wash their hands every time they are using the “bathroom”? Oops, sorry, there is no bathroom! I can bet you anything that the amount of germs at all these places is pretty much equal! After been to sxm probably 15 times, the only place where I got stomach sick was an Italian restaurant in Maho that everyone was raving about! Maybe we are just lucky. Been going to ZeeBest from day one since they were a hole in a wall in Marigot and never had a problem. Their pastry is delicious! Yeah I know it’s not good for you but.... we’re there only for two weeks! At least this is the excuse we are using, LOL! If you worry about the pastry that was brought to you- just ask for the fresh one. The LOLOs in Grand Case and the airport have restrooms to wash up. So does Zee Best.......
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SXMBND]
#180016
01/07/2019 08:35 PM
01/07/2019 08:35 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736 Auburn, WA
SXMScubaman
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 18,736
Auburn, WA
|
Guys you are holerious! You refuse to eat a pastry at the cafe but ok to eat from LOLOS, Cupecoy food or the airport food! Do you think these guys wash their hands every time they are using the “bathroom”? Oops, sorry, there is no bathroom! I can bet you anything that the amount of germs at all these places is pretty much equal! After been to sxm probably 15 times, the only place where I got stomach sick was an Italian restaurant in Maho that everyone was raving about! Maybe we are just lucky. Been going to ZeeBest from day one since they were a hole in a wall in Marigot and never had a problem. Their pastry is delicious! Yeah I know it’s not good for you but.... we’re there only for two weeks! At least this is the excuse we are using, LOL! If you worry about the pastry that was brought to you- just ask for the fresh one. The LOLOs in Grand Case and the airport have restrooms to wash up. So does Zee Best....... Yep. But those sticky fingered customers touching the pastries are what we are talking about.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: BeachKitten]
#180021
01/07/2019 09:31 PM
01/07/2019 09:31 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,288
PelicanPirate
OP
Traveler
|
OP
Traveler
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,288
|
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#180025
01/07/2019 10:21 PM
01/07/2019 10:21 PM
|
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 552 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
KGB
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 552
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
|
Yep and the big guy checking everybody’s hands been washed properly on the way out.... Lol! I remember my best experience to date was at the Gus beach bar. He was standing behind the bar making cocktails for the happy hour. Gold bracelets on his hands and rings on every finger, cutting fresh fruits and putting them into the blender. The juices running down his hands, he would ignore it or wipe them of with a towel. I doubt those fruits were washed before cutting. But these were the most delicious drinks I ever had! And all the people who were lined up to the bar waiting for the drinks didn’t mind his methods of preparing drinks.
"Often Wrong, Never in Doubt"
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#180043
01/08/2019 07:37 AM
01/08/2019 07:37 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,631 Oyster Pond St. Martin
soualigacapt
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,631
Oyster Pond St. Martin
|
To each there own. Sanitation in a Third world country at its best. you think it's better in the US, You have got to be kidding. Just because they have a sign in the bathroom that employees have to wash their hands ( which we have in St. Martin too) doesn't mean they do. NY top restaurants have the dirtiest kitchens and the most health violations over and over.
|
|
|
Re: Zee Best Simpson Bay Breakfast
[Re: bigbobthib]
#180119
01/08/2019 04:59 PM
01/08/2019 04:59 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527 Ohio
ruralcarrier
Traveler
|
Traveler
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,527
Ohio
|
What Zee Best does is re serve the pastries in the basket that was not eaten........... Yes, we are well aware of that fact. It has been like that for a long time.
J.D.
|
|
|
|