On 5/30/2022 at 9:58 AM, KennethT said:Very nice. what was the sauce with the mahi bites and shrimp? It looks to be the same.... The blue and white bottle is tequila - Clase Azul.
The mahi had a remoulade style sauce, and the shrimp had a spicy sriracha-mayo type sauce.
Yesterday we woke up to a rainbow. It brought rain to the island in the photo, but not here unfortunately. By the way, the island in the photo is a private island that was owned by the disgraced and deceased Jeffrey Epstein. It is on the market and can be yours for the bargain price of $125 million. Creepy vibes and bad karma included for free!
Yesterday was a big beach day for the locals and the tourists. Parking at the sandy ones was basically gone for the day by 10AM. I think a fight broke out for our spot when we left. We went to Cinnamon and walked down towards the end. The roped off area in the photo is a leatherback turtle nest that was laid a few weeks ago. I don't think there has been a viable leatherback nest on St. John since 2005 (there are lots of green and hawksbill turtles here, but the leatherbacks tend to nest on St. Croix). Hopefully it is viable.
Beachy blues
Last night we went to dinner at La Tapa Plage in town. We had a gift certificate from Christmas 2019 that was a gift from my parents to spend. Our 2020 visit to St. John was cancelled because of Covid, and then the restaurant closed for a couple of years to move to a new location. They just reopened on St. Patrick's Day of this year, and we were looking forward to eating there again. Here's the menu. It's quite similar to the one they had in their old location. They were out of the artichoke and the mussels last night.
The restaurant (I took this photo right when we arrived. It filled up very quickly thereafter)
The view from our table
Husband's cocktail
I really wanted to try the conch stew but the sun was shining right on me and I was pretty warm, so I went with the gorgonzola caesar to start. It was very good
Husband chose the bacalao fritters. I tried to gently dissuade him from getting these. Every time we eat here, he wants to order these, and every time he gets them he says they have too much potato. He got them again, and guess what? He thought they had too much potato! He needs to listen to me haha
For mains, my husband chose the mahi mahi. He said it was excellent
I chose the tuna. It was fantastic, probably my favorite tuna dish of the trip so far
We had a nice sunset with the main dishes
We knew we still had some money left on the gift card at this point, but were not really hungry, so we decided to get a couple of ice creams to share. We tried the lemon lavender and the carajillo. We both thought the carajillo was spicier than we were expecting, but the lemon lavender was nice.
By the way, it's hard to tell from the photo, but these are really small--less than a kiddie cup size. If we did not have the gift card we would not have chosen these at $15 each. But, as you can see, it worked out perfectly haha (the waiter got tipped in cash on top of the gift card of course!).
We have no reservations today so not sure what we are doing for food, but I am sure we will think of something. 🙂
