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 through to snacks. The hunt for three particular products got us to three different grocery stores, which might cause you to believe that the grocery stores in Anguilla are not extremely well-stocked. But stocked they’re, with a variety of interesting things.
I understand 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 taking in at all the wrong places.
One of the right eateries is at Lucy’s, where, despite the insufficient soy chunks on the menu, the food is quite delicious.
At Lucy’s we shared a crab fritter appetizer, followed by two orders of the snapper from the dinner menu, which really is a salty, garlicky, fried fillet so excellent that apparently I couldn’t even pause to have a photo before digging in.
Right because the appetizer came, Ronnie Bryan showed up – we’d called previous to tell him the fact that trunk about our rental car wasn’t shutting properly. (You know it’s a small island when someone can monitor you down at lunchtime in the area around two hours.) While Angel chatted with Ronnie within the parking great deal, I of course ate the complete crab fritter appetizer. Later, when Lucy brought out our entrees and noticed that Angel was still out speaking with Ronnie, she swiftly took his dish back into the kitchen so you don’t eat everything!” As if I would do that twice.
Lucy has been working on a new special drink, which 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 fainting napping for the entire afternoon, we were still as well exhausted from your Lucy’s Foodapalooza to do much for supper, so we drove over to Part Bar for a few pizza. As you know, the laws and regulations of physics dictate that regardless of how stuffed you might be, you can constantly eat a cut of pizza.
The very next day was bright and sunny, that could only mean a very important factor: Rendezvous Bay.
Later that night time was Blanchard’s for supper, which is where in fact the rich and famous go out when they visit Anguilla, and the indegent and infamous reach wait 20 a few minutes for any table even with a reservation. Not really that I am bitter or anything.
Blanchard’s is known for its “Cracked Coconut” dessert, which is a chocolate shell dusted with toasted coconut and filled with coconut ice cream. It had been very tasty, but not even a huge ball of coconut-shaped delicious chocolate can make up for the good-but-not-great food and $200 tab. Boo.
The very next day we drove over the island to Shoal Bay East, with a quick stop in Island Harbour.
Remember when you were a kid and you idea a watermelon would grow in your stomach if you swallowed a watermelon seed? Caribbean kids should be terrified of coconuts.
Shoal Bay is gorgeous, but don’t be fooled.
To begin with, there are tiny, curious tropical seafood here, that will swim around your calves whenever you enter the drinking water. I personally find this sweet and charming, and could watch them dart around my foot all day long. But Angel, who’s a powerful magnet for sand fleas, gnats, mosquitos, rabid dogs, and just about any various other loathsome creature around, does not agree. Those legless bastards want to obtain me,” he described, exiting the water.
I laughed and asked why a seafood the size of an anchovy should obtain him. Because I am tender and tasty,” he answered. Of course.
The second cause to be alert at Shoal Bay is that a large stingray lives here. That in itself is not so terrifying, until you realize that he’s cleverly disguised to look exactly like an integral part of the reef. God help people.
love all you wrote as well as the pictures certainly are a feast recipe for best tiramisu cheesecake the eye! I especially agree with your summation of Blanchard’s. We’ve felt it has been a “rip-off” for a long time.
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