08.06.2010 – 08.15.2010 32 °F
The day started off cloudy with some rain showers, so we decided to spend the morning stocking up on snacks. The hunt for three particular items required us to three different food markets, which might lead you to believe that the grocery stores in Anguilla are not extremely well-stocked. But stocked they are, with all sorts of interesting things.
I understand cauliflower risotto carla hall what you’re thinking: Precisely how popular are soy chunks to warrant their own aisle?
Why have I never tried a tropical soy chunk smoothie, or the island grilled soy chunks? I must be eating at all the wrong places.
One of the right eateries is at Lucy’s, where, regardless of the lack of soy chunks on the menu, the food is quite great tasting.
At Lucy’s we shared a crab fritter appetizer, accompanied by two orders from the snapper from the dinner menu, which is a salty, garlicky, fried fillet so good that apparently I couldn’t even pause to have a photo before digging in.
Right because the appetizer came, Ronnie Bryan arrived – we’d called earlier to tell him how the trunk on our local rental car wasn’t shutting properly. (You know it’s a small island when someone can track you down at lunch time in the area around two hours.) While Angel chatted with Ronnie within the parking great deal, I of course ate the entire crab fritter appetizer. Afterwards, when Lucy presented our entrees and noticed that Angel was still out speaking with Ronnie, she swiftly took his dish back into your kitchen so you don’t consume it all!” As if I would do that twice.
Lucy has been working on a fresh special drink, that is approximately 1 oz. of lime juice, 1 oz. of mango puree, 1 oz. of amaretto, and 48 oz. of rum. Either that or our eye are this squinty on a regular basis.
After passing out napping for the whole afternoon, we were still as well exhausted through the Lucy’s Foodapalooza to do much for supper, so we drove to Part Bar for a few pizza. As you know, the laws and regulations of physics dictate that regardless of how stuffed you happen to be, you can usually eat a cut of pizza.
The very next day was bright and sunny, that could only mean one thing: Rendezvous Bay.
Later that night was Blanchard’s for supper, which is where the full and famous hang out when they visit Anguilla, and the poor and infamous get to wait 20 a few minutes for any table even with a reservation. Not really which i am bitter or anything.
Blanchard’s is known for its “Cracked Coconut” dessert, which is a delicious chocolate shell dusted with toasted coconut and filled up with coconut ice cream. It had been very tasty, but not even a large ball of coconut-shaped chocolates could make up for the good-but-not-great meals and $200 tab. Boo.
The next day we drove across the island to Shoal Bay East, with a quick stop in Island Harbour.
Remember once you were a youngster and you thought a watermelon would grow in your belly if you swallowed a watermelon seed? Caribbean children must be terrified of coconuts.
Shoal Bay is gorgeous, but don’t be fooled.
First of all, there are small, curious tropical seafood here, that may swim around your calves when you enter the drinking water. I personally find this sugary and charming, and could watch them dart around my foot all day long. But Angel, who’s a powerful magnet for fine sand fleas, gnats, mosquitos, rabid canines, and just about any various other loathsome creature in existence, does not agree. Those legless bastards are trying to obtain me,” he described, exiting water. I laughed and asked why a seafood how big is an anchovy might want to get him. Because I am sensitive and tasty,” he clarified. Of course.
The second reason to be alert at Shoal Bay is a large stingray lives here. That alone is not so terrifying, until you understand that he is cleverly disguised to appear exactly like an integral part of the reef. God help us all.
love all you wrote and the pictures are a feast for the eye! I especially agree with your summation of Blanchard’s. We have felt it has been a “rip-off” for a long time.
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