16 minutes ago, liamsaunt said:Yesterday was another unsettled weather day. The ocean calmed down and all the sargassum and man o' wars went away, but as you can see from this picture there was rain around.
Once the skies opened up we took shelter at Coconuts for lunch.
Wahoo sandwich
jerk chicken tacos
It cleared up a little in the afternoon, so we headed back to the beach. I ran into my heron friend again on the way down
Sunny skies! Those beachgoers were soaking up the sun. Meanwhile, I was buried under towels under that umbrella you see in the corner.
That evening, the Reefs was hosting a beach barbecue. We attended this when we visited back in September, and nobody loved it, so instead we travelled over to Cambridge Beaches Resort for dinner at the Sunken Harbor Club. Apparently, it's an outpost of a New York restaurant. Their menu featured lots of local fish so it sounded appealing to us.
Funky cocktail bar
Outdoor tables (this becomes relevant later). We opted to sit indoors by the window because it was quite windy.
Bread. I took a picture of it because we both thought two of the rolls looked like potatoes
Drinks. Mine is a mocktail made with pineapple. Husband's was the little one on the right. It was called the continental navy.
Some menu pictures for @rotuts
We decided to try the shark hash and the callaloo pasta to start. Shark hash
It reminded us of salt cod. Callaloo pasta
This was excellent. Neither of us had tasted ackee before and we loved it. The pasta was quite spicy too. We agreed that it was one of the best things we had eaten this visit.
Entree options
Husband selected the turbot
It was perfectly cooked. The parsnip puree was intensely rich, and that's a lemon, white wine and butter sauce on top.
I chose a special of pistachio crusted mahi mahi with ackee stuffed tortellini and vegetables. I really enjoyed this!
By this point, we were both stuffed, but wanted to share a dessert.
The table behind us got the flamed chocolate dome, and it was huge, so we opted for the half moon sapphire
Overall, it was a really nice meal. It was disrupted a little when a random fellow female diner came up to our table mid meal to start complaining about a fellow guest, who was at an outside table discreetly breast-feeding her child under her shirt. She just walked up to our table and started complaining! When she finally exclaimed "in my 30 years of coming here, I have never seen such a thing!" I just looked at her and said "there's a first time for everything." I mean, really. Who cares? Mind your own business, random lady, and get away from my table! 🤣
We finished dinner just in time to catch the end of the sunset, dropping in to the water. Cambridge Beaches is one of the best places on Bermuda to see a sunset.
And a view of the beach barbecue, still in force when we returned to our room.
We stayed at the Cambridge many years ago. The place must have really changed. Years ago, the main restaurant that was indoors was really stuffy - we must have been the youngest people there by several decades. A few of the men there were wearing ascots!!!! Ascots!!! I was looking for local dishes and they were serving beef wellington. They had an outdoor restaurant that was more casual and had more local types of food, but tropical storm and all.....
