From fine dining resort restaurants to chicken wings and fries or Doxie’s pumpkin soup and roti, no one ever goes home hungry!
What most guests do for meals (seven-night stay)
✦ The first night dinner is salad and Doxie’s roti (welcome pack)*
✦ They dine at the villa for two or three nights by hiring Doxie on the “take care of us” plan
✦ They dine at resort restaurants two or three nights
✦ The other nights, dinner is leftovers or they do their own cooking
✦ Lunches: Leftovers or eaten at restaurants while out on activities (or skipped)
✦ Breakfasts: Guests usually make their own breakfasts, but a few hire Doxie to do it for them
Click on the triangles for more information in the sections below.
Subject to availability, the welcome pack contains: a few soft and hard beverages (beer, rum punch, Coke, Sprite); some snacks (such as cheese and crackers or chips and salsa); and a dinner of salad and one roti per person.
A roti is turmeric-seasoned vegetables, with or without chicken, wrapped in a thin flour wrapper – a little like an Indian burrito. Welcome pack contents are subject to change without notice.
Restaurants
We are only a short drive (10 – 25 minutes) to a good choice of restaurants. From BBQ chicken wings with fries to crystal and white-tablecloth restaurants, you should be able to find something that meets your taste and your budget nearby. But you won’t find a fast-food restaurant or any food delivery services (except hiring the driver to get it for you).
Lunch is the main meal for St Lucians and the most cost-effective restaurants are open only at lunchtime. So if you are trying to maximize your food dollar, we suggest you do as the St Lucians do and have a hearty lunch at a local restaurant, then have a light dinner.
Doxie cooks for you
Doxie, our extraordinary property manager, housekeeper and cook, can make meals for you. She is an excellent St Lucian cook, but is not a formally-trained international chef. She cooks dinners in the afternoon so you can eat when you are ready.
Doxie offers two options for cooking: “just cook” and “take care of us”. Most of our guests have her “take care of them”. She accepts cash ($US or local $EC) or you can pay us with Zelle or a credit card and we’ll pay her for you (transaction fees apply).
You cook
For those of you that like to cook for yourself, we have a well-equipped kitchen and a propane grill with an infrared burner.
We suggest you buy one or two days’ of groceries at the Massy La Tourney grocery on the way to the villa from the airport. It has a better selection than the stores near us.
For those guests arriving when the grocery is closed, we offer a limited prestocking service for your first morning breakfast groceries.
For additional groceries, you can shop in Soufriere (10-15 minutes away) or hire Doxie to shop and deliver groceries for you. Please give her guidance on what to do if she can’t find particular items.
You can also order online for delivery at Massy Online . Contact us for the process to do this. We have not tried it yet.
If you plan to make your own meals, we recommend you go to the grocery store and figure out your meals from what is in stock. The selection is quite limited compared to most groceries in the US/UK/Canada, so you can’t count on getting all the ingredients you need if you plan the meal first.
Typical prices are about 20% higher than most of the US (local produce and store brands) with name brands even more expensive. Anything refrigerated will be quite expensive. Buy shelf-stable milk and juice. Most meat is frozen. You can usually find some fresh local chicken. Go to the street vendors or the open-air market for fresh fish.
The grocery stores take credit cards with proper identification; bring cash (preferably local) to the other stores and the market.
Liquor and wine – the Massy stores carry a limited selection. The best selection of liquor is at Uptowns, only a few minutes away from the airport.
We bring a lot of key ingredients with us (for example, steaks, bacon, butter, good cheese, muffin and cake mixes) so we can make most of our own meals.
Contact us for how to bring perishables. Please note poultry cannot be brought in and will be confiscated.
We have a stainless-steel propane grill on the deck, and the kitchen is well-equipped with practically everything you need to make your meals: a new “smart” induction cooktop, an oven, lots of pots and pans, cutlery, hand mixer, blenders, coffee maker, espresso/cappuccino machine, toaster, hand-crank pasta maker, rice cooker, waffle maker, and we even have an automatic ice-cream maker.