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
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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 one roti per person and salad.
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 large propane grill with an infrared burner. There is an open-air market daily and several stores (grocery, bakery, butcher) in Soufriere, a 10-minute drive from the villa.
Alternatively, Doxie can shop for you and deliver the groceries for a fee. Please give her at least a days’ notice to do this for you.
Prices are about 20-30% higher than in the US if you buy store brands. Name brands (such as Cheetos) can be twice what you usually pay.
The open-air market in Soufriere is a good place for local vegetables and fruit. There’s a small grocery near the market, and a larger grocery a few minutes near Cool Breeze gas station. Meat/poultry will be frozen, although local chicken is sometimes available fresh at the grocery. The street vendors or the Soufriere market is the best place for fresh fish.
The grocery stores take credit cards with proper identification; bring cash (preferably local) to the other stores. Liquor and wine – the Massy stores carry a limited selection.
The best selection for groceries will be at the La Tourney Massy grocery and the best selection of liquor is at Uptowns (don’t buy wine there). Both are between the airport and the villa.
As the selection at the grocery is limited, we sometimes bring breakfast muffin mix, brownie/cookie, or cake mix, and our favorite cheese.
Contact us for how to bring meat with you. Please note poultry cannot be brought in and will be confiscated.
We have a large stainless-steel propane grill on the deck, and the kitchen is well-equipped with practically anything you need to make your meals: a new “smart” induction cooktop, 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.
The one limitation is our oven – there is no built-in oven, so we have a countertop convection oven, which works well for smaller items (muffins, a single cake layer, etc.)