Dining (and drinking) on Petit St Vincent

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Breakfast
We started every day with room service breakfast on our patio.  Sometimes I’d have the goat cheese omelet (made not with the usual fresh goat cheese, but rather the kind that’s soft and melting inside its rind), other times the egg white omelet with broccoli.  D liked the yogurt parfait with fruit.  We always had toast with butter, too – one day, D tried the mysterious “nutmeg jelly.”  Turns out it tastes a lot like honey!

Our breakfast companions were the local birds – grackles, doves, mockingbirds, and bananaquits.

The grackles were comically brazen, squawking at us as if to hurry us along and often descending on our table before we’d even left.  One hopped right up to me to eat a scoopful of butter before I could react!  Despite my best efforts to cover our dishes to discourage scavenging, I’d invariably look over to see one of them tossing napkins aside and fishing out crusts from beneath the metal plate covers.

Our resident dove bustled about the decking, hoping to stumble on a crumb but keeping a wary distance from us (and the grackles).

And the bananaquits flitted in and out, always interested in the contents of cups and glasses, and most especially in my leftover marmalade!

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Lunch
We’d usually make our way to the beach for lunch, where we’d post up at the bar beneath yachtie flags.  My favorites were grilled lobster and lobster spaghetti with tomatoes and peppers.

Yep, there’s a common denominator!

Dinner
We generally had dinner in the restaurant, on the hill overlooking the lights of Petit Martinique. Each night, there’s a menu with about three appetizer choices, four entrees, and three desserts; it’s all inclusive but we would sometimes simply have an appetizer and dessert if the mood struck, or two appetizers, or skip dessert.

The fish are very fresh, of course, and the chef makes a great curry (lobster one night, and vegetable another).  D inquired about goat curry, and the wonderful staff arranged for us to have it specially the next night.

On movie night we ate at the beach to watch the Three Amigos, and we also headed down there for the weekly BBQ (grilled lobster, ribs, and steak) with a steel pan band playing everything from Careless Whisper to Kokomo, with a few Christmas carols thrown in!

But what was there to drink?
There’s a small, serviceable wine list on PSV, though we found ourselves favoring beachy cocktails (with the exception of a glass of rosé now and then) down at Goatie’s Bar.

I especially liked the Banana Cow, a frozen blend of rum, banana, and milk.  A piña colada topped with a rum floater was our preferred sundowner.  And the guys at Goatie’s make a great version of a Painkiller (rum, pineapple, orange, coconut, and freshly grated nutmeg).

For something more grown-up, head to the restaurant and check out their aged rum selection.

My favorite was the Admiral Rodney Extra Old, from St Lucia – though Admiral Rodney himself sounds like kind of a jerk.  On the plus side, his delay in arriving to a key battle is said to have helped the Americans defeat the British in the War for Independence.

All in all – you can eat very well on PSV, especially if you stick to the lobster!  And check out the view…