US Virgin Islands food

I thought I’d do a post about some of the food we enjoyed during our USVI vacation. (More exciting activities coming in subsequent posts.)

One nice thing about our Airbnb condo was that it was a short walk from some restaurants, including Sun & Sea Bar & Grill, which was below the swimming pool, right on the water. Here are the one side of the drinks and food menus as a sampling of the offerings:

Jenn enjoying the view:

Beverages:

The restaurant:

A fun thing was there were a bunch of fish that hung out next to the restaurant, as staff and patrons would occasionally throw leftovers to them:

Our food:

A pelican on the dock:

For breakfast the next day we went to Picaso’s Coffee Bar, a few minutes drive from the Airbnb:

We brought the coffee and food back to eat on our lanai:

We got ham, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches on traditional “dumb bread” (kinda like a US-style biscuit or scone):

We went to a grocery store to get more food, including freshly ground coffee beans:

A lunch at Señor Pizza in Red Hook:

Heading to Margaritaville, one of the other restaurants an easy walk from the Airbnb:

Menu:

A cat wandered through, looking hopefully at diners:

Beachside beverages:

A rainbow; you can also see the Sun & Sea Bar & Grill restaurant (and its floating dock), and above that the Airbnb:

Food:

A cannon:

Back to the Sun & Sea Bar & Grill again another evening:

Someone arrived at the restaurant by boat, and a pelican enjoyed perching on it:

Back to Margaritaville again:

One thing I wasn’t impressed by with Margaritaville; they had an easy-to-miss notice that they automatically added an 18% tip to the bill, but also included a tip line; if one weren’t paying attention, it’d be easy to significantly overtip (as I did the first time we were there). I usually tip 20-25%, but this just seemed sneaky (I did still add a small tip to bring it above 18%, though):

(As a Kiwi, I still find tipping kinda gross, even after 22 years in the US. But it’s the system.)

On our last night, we made a dinner at our Airbnb: