Dining in Turks and Caicos

[liamsaunt]

My husband and I decided to check out Turks and Caicos. We rented a house for a week starting today, but ended up flying in a day early because of a storm building up right in the flight path. We scrambled, switched our flight, and used points to book a night at the Ritz Carlton on Grace Bay for last night.

 

 

The view from our room 

 

 

The beach itself reminds me a little bit of Miami. There  are a lot of resorts right on the beach. 
 

 

It’s not really my scene, but we are staying in a house in a quieter area for the rest of the trip.  Here are a couple of view from the beach

 

 

 

We were really tired on arrival, so just went to the sushi restaurant at the resort for dinner. Menu

 

 

 

I had a mocktail made with earl grey tea and pineapple, and my husband had a spicy pineapple margarita

 

 

We shared an order of potstickers

 

 

The hamachi turadito and the gunkan. The hamachi was good but the lobster one was kind of bland. 
 

 

Then we shared the spicy tuna roll and the South Caicos conch roll. Conch fritters on sushi was a new one hahaha, but we had to try it. I think I would have preferred just getting some conch fritters. 

 

 

We are checking out of here in a bit, going grocery shopping and then heading to the house.  I  think I saw the road to the area where we are staying from the plane, and it basically looks like a sand path. Should be interesting! I am glad we rented a Jeep. 

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@liamsaunt

 

looks quite tasty

 

thank you for the menu's

[KennethT]

Enjoy!  I look forward to seeing your adventure here.  How is the weather there this time of year?  When I was a kid, my parents would take us during Presidents' Week to Miami (to visit the grandmothers) and then to an island in the Caribbean (to make up for Miami which was commonly 60 degrees and rainy until the day we left and then it was beautiful).  We usually tried to visit the more southerly islands (like Guadeloupe and South) since it was practically guaranteed nice weather, as opposed to the windward ones which could be as dicey as Miami.

 

Have a conch fritter for me!

[liamsaunt]

16 hours ago, KennethT said:

Enjoy!  I look forward to seeing your adventure here.  How is the weather there this time of year?  

Warmer than at home 😀. It was 83 yesterday. The water is too cold for me to swim in, but I fully admit to being a wimp. I rarely get into the water in the winter, no matter the location.  There were many other, hardier people swimming in the ocean yesterday. A “cold” front is moving in for the next day or so which is supposed to bring brisk winds and dangerous boating conditions.  
 

We moved over to the house yesterday. The road was actually in fairly good island condition until the very end. The directions we were given were terrible, so we ended up on a scenic tour of the area. There seems to be lots of new construction, as well as many properties for sale. Interesting.  The house is in the Chalk Sound area, which is a more remote part of the island. The sound itself is protected National Park. You can swim or kayak in it, but there’s no motorized boating allowed. 
 

View from the house. The pool is supposedly heated, so I might try and go swimming later. Results doubtful 😂

 

 

There’s a private access to the water below the house, with kayaks to use. We will not be kayaking. I always end up going in circles.

 

The kitchen

 

 

Welcome basket from our on island host, filled with the junkiest junk food ever.  If my niece and nephew were here they would be thrilled! I have found that junk food, especially chips, is actually one of the most expensive things to buy on an island, so it’s a nice gesture. I am saving my junk food ration for conch fritters though.

 

As an aside, we went grocery shopping before coming to the house, and I was pleasantly surprised by the variety and cost of the food. It was more than at home, but not even close to the grocery prices we pay on St. John. They had a wide variety of organic food, lots of fruits and vegetables in good condition, and a large bakery selection. I did not check out the meat or frozen sections, but overall it was a very good experience.

 

By the time we were all settled at the house it was getting dark, so we went to the closest restaurant to the house for dinner, Las Brisas. I did not take pictures of the restaurant because it was dark, but we will probably go back for lunch at some point.  It’s an open air waterfront restaurant, with a pool that guests can swim in if they want to.  I think there are tables on the beach that are open at lunch, but it was too dark to tell.    We had a dining companion

 

 

The menu is massive.

 

 

 

 

 

We shared some conch fritters. They were really good, jammed with conch.  
 

 

The fish of the day was snapper or grouper. I saw the snapper going out to other tables and it looked really good, but I wanted shrimp since I cannot eat them at home.  Blackened shrimp with peas and rice and vegetables 

 

 

Husband had a grilled lobster with peas and rice and salad

 

 

No dessert.

[KennethT]

I thought the Kraken Burger was hilarious... first of all, how much food it is (and how much fat is probably in it!) but also, why is there no seafood in it?  I'd expect some calamari or something in a Kraken burger...