Le Pavillon?

Someone posted about having dinner here. We stay in Oyster Pond but I've never heard of this restaurant. Is it new and where is it located? Always looking for new places to try around that area.

There used to be a wonderful waterside restaurant on Simpson Bay called LaPavilion. It was wonderful but sadly, gone for at least twenty years or so. I doubt that's the one you had in mind - not much of a help this morning, am I - but it was truly wonderful in its day. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />

I looked on Trip Advisor and found it Voted #1 restaurant in Oyster Pond on there. Only been open two years and I know where it is now. Used to be a hotel that was destroyed in hurricane and has been rebuilt into this restaurant. Food sounds wonderful. On our list for January! I love having new places to try close to OBBR when we don't feel like driving too far.

I don't know how it was voted #1 on Tripadvisor. We stay in that area several weeks a year and have never seen more than one table occupied at a time. Have also seen varied reviews. After your visit please give us your opinion. Thanks.

Sadly you can't rely too much on Trip Advisor ratings. They have been wrong in many cases in the past.

Very correct Elizabeth. Like anything else, it is a tool or a guide but also based on opinions. We use TripAdvisor at times for hotels when it is a place we are not familiar with, sometimes the reviews are spot on and other times they are way off.

With regards to restaurants on TripAdvisor, I find the reviews there highly unreliable. I often see chain restaurants rated way ahead of independent restaurants and in many cases I personally find the restaurant reviews way off. One of the worst meals and service we have had in the past 2 years was a highly rated steak house. After eating there I wondered how they stay in business, let alone get good reviews.

TripAdvisor seems to solicit reviews and often a place will solicit customers for positive reviews to be posted.

Hope your trip home was uneventful.

That has been our experience too with Trip Advisor for the most part.

We did have a good trip home;no problems at all. We are still enjoying mild weather here and no sign of snow so that is nice too.

If you only knew, the tales I could tell as a business owner.

Lyn

Glad you found it. Here is a link to their web site.

Harry, have you dined at Le Pavillon by the Sea? How was it?

Well we will definitely try it in January and see what we think. I like having restaurants around Oyster Pond for those nights when we don't want to drive too far so having another new place to try is great. I use Trip Advisor a lot and do a lot of reviews myself on hotels and restaurants on there. I agree I've been disappointed with some places I thought would be great based on the reviews but it is just another tool when traveling to a new place to get ideas on where we want to stay or dine just like we use Travel Talk for places to try on the island. Everyone has different tastes and opinions on what they like. But it is fun for us to try new places we read about and make our opinion on what we think

We also will be staying in the Oyster Pond area mid Jan. so will be interested to hear your opinion of Le Pavillon by the Sea.

I have not, but my daughter and her husband did and they really liked their meals. On my list for our next trip.

Ate there in March of 2013. It is next to the supermarche, AUXPAINS D'EPICES, which is due north up the road from Capt Oliver complex. It is owned by a French and American couple. Very nice people , we found it good but overpriced for the quality of the food.

I agree 100%. There are some strange reviews on restaurants in SXM that really make you wonder what Tripadvisor is getting up to.

Their Forums are even stranger. Negative comments on restaurants that are overrated are systematically removed.

I started to mistrust Tripadvisor ratings and then spent a few days undertaking a study of Tripadvisor issues (I am a journalist). What I found was way beyond anything I could have imagined.

I now never trust their comments at all.

If you follow that road around it comes out where Le Frigate Restaurant was (can't remember new name. Turn right and directly across street is the market Carol formally of L'Estimenet restaurant, has.

While staying in that area try to give her some business.

New restaurant is L'oasis