Hi. What are your restaurant recommendations on the Dutch side? Thank you

Hi. What KIND of restaurants? Beach bars? High end? Italian? French? Steakhouses?

I was thinking the same thing. Need a little more info before making recommendations. 🙂🙂

Our “must go to” restaurants are Chesterfields, Mark’s Place and Lal’s Curry in a Hurry. We find the food is always consistently good at these long standing establishments.

secret seafood house.............best ever...........................

Vesna Taverna is one of our most favorites!!

Great food and the nicest owners.

Secret Seafood House is a great choice. Even for me who doesn't eat seafood! Wonderful steak.

Vesna Taverna is another great choice.

Also which restaurants serve SCALLOPS?

Off the top of my head not thinking many restaurants on Dutch side serving scallops as I would assume all are imported from far away and even more expensive than East Coast restaurants

I know Le Pressoir in GC serves them and extremely expensive as they cost a lot for Gil to have them imported

I've had scallops at Roma.

Just off the top of my mind, I can think of Sublime, Le Moulin Fou, Roma and Vesna Taverna all having them on their menu in some form from our most recent trip. A more exhaustive list can be found at the link below. It is a list from Trip Advisor showing 34 eateries with Scallops on their menu.


Restaurants on SXM serving scallops - link

A bit off topic but doesn't deserve it's own thread, two one and dones early into this trip. Not horrendous, but mediocre at best, was our experience at both The Burger Bar and Dinghy Bar & Grille. Service was pleasant and attentive at both but .......... the taste of the food left alot be be desired. Run of the mill at both.

Breakfast, SMYC. Lunch, Driftwood and Sandbar. Best "PR" Greenhouse, Best Lobster , Skipjacks . Best Ribs, Dinghy dock (airport rd.) Best Italian , Roma. Best HH, Greenhouse!!!

Do you mean Dinghy Dock, or Dinghy's Beach Bar?

I gotta wonder why a new place would name their place something so close to an existing business. Michael and I almost made the mistake of going to Dinghy Dock when we wanted to go to Dinghy's beach bar.

I agree it's a very confusing name. Apparently that's the name of their business in St. Thomas. Perhaps it would have been better to name it something different.

Dingy Beach Bar and Grille

Thanks for scallops replies.I checked the link and looked at all the menus and found 3 that shows scallops will try and report back.

Secret Seafood joins the one and done. Nice folks but my meal was terrible. Wife did like the Garlic Salmon but my surf & turf left a whole lot to be desired. Sorry but I call them as I see them.
If you do order the salmom order it well done. Never been asked how she wants her salmon cooked b4.

Oh no. Not well done salmon. Might as well order cardboard.

I literally laughed out loud. You are right. Yuck.

No reason to be sorry. Everyone has different expectations and experiences. Hopefully most of your other dining experiences meet your expectations.

Reservations @ Jax tonight to recover. :-)

Don't recall anyone saying they wanted it well done??? Uncooked in the center doesn't work, but that's just me I guess.

SXMBND--you said "If you do order the salmom order it well done." I personally don't eat salmon, but I think most people order it to where the center is pink??

Yes Carol , it has to be pink otherwise its not worth eating , its the same like Tuna lol.

Well if med well is raw in the middle I stand by what I said.

Has to be moist and flaky or it's not worth eating. We eat a lot of fresh caught ocean salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Can't be overcooked.