Welcome To This Blog: Feel Free to Look Around

Hello there, welcome – this blog is about culinary delights for the foodie in all of us, living, cooking and eating on St. Maarten/St. Martin. This Caribbean island is known as the Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean. There is an entire village dedicated to restaurants, a village with easy parking and a long flat main street that one can wander along reading the menus displayed outside the quaint  entrances…….

the island recently went through the worst experience the weather could throw out there – during Hurricane Irma, (September 2017) the island suffered the loss of multiple homes, businesses and of course many watering holes and fine-dining establishments. The islander’s amazing spirit and resilience has become focused on rebuilding and, through sheer hard work, many places, including foodie establishments, are up and running. New and old restaurants are popping back up – there are many exciting new and renewed old favourite places we are dying to try out asap!

many much-loved supermarkets took a bad hit, for awhile there one wondered if the  food shopping emporiums would resurface – and they have! In one case, the Dutchside supermarkets, LGM/Carrefour, are now sharing space under one roof. Refurbished it is an incredible place to shop, the old products nestle with the new on shelves that reach almost to the ceiling. Super new fridge and freezers are filled with delightful products/produce, much of which we have not seen before.

the many Asian food shops are all making their come-back. In these stores one finds the regular and on occasion the exotic product – what is it, you may wonder, as you try to understand the description.

the Frenchside supermarkets and food stores are also making a come-back and everyone’s favourite Super U is filled with products that all non-French speakers find hard to decipher.

hopefully we can successfully record using some intriguing products, there is an exciting time ahead of us.

Join us as we dive in head first!