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La Passiflore
( 0262 51 74 68;
www.lapassiflore.re
;
31 Rue des Baies-Roses; d incl breakfast €55; )
Run by a
well-travelled
métro
couple, this B&B stands in a haven of tropical peace in a side street
near Provanille. The three clinically clean rooms with their own entrance are embellished
with a few exotic bits and bobs; avoid the 'Amis' room in the owners' house. Float in the
scintillating pool or bask in the sunny garden. Air-con is extra (€5).
B&B
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Chez Éva Annibal
( 0262 51 53 76; 6 Chemin Rivière du Mât; dinner €25)
Pack a hearty thirst and giant-sized appetite
before venturing into this plain but feisty inn. The Full Monty feast comprises rum,
gratin
de légumes
(baked vegetables), fish curry, duck with vanilla, and cakes, all clearly em-
blazoned with a Creole Mama stamp of approval. There are also three functional but clean
rooms (doubles without bathroom including breakfast €40) with sloping ceilings and com-
munal facilities upstairs; in warmer months, they can be stifling given the lack of air-con.
CREOLE
€€
Le Bec Fin
( 0262 51 52 24; 66 RN2; mains €10-25, menu €13-18; lunch daily, dinner Fri & Sat)
Tickle your taste
buds with a slurp of
planteur
(aromatic rum), then continue your indulgence with a feisty
portion of
sarcives
(a variety of sausage) or
poisson sauce piquante
(fish in spicy sauce).
On weekdays it lays on an excellent buffet lunch for just €13.
CREOLE, CHINESE
€€
Getting There & Away
Car Jaune buses (lines F and G) stop outside the vanilla cooperative en route between St-
André and St-Benoît.
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St-Benoît & Around
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Sugar-cane fields, lychee and mango orchards, rice, spices, coffee… Great carpets of
deep-green felt seem to have been draped over the lower hills that surround St-Benoît, a
major agricultural and fishing centre.
Bar a few impressive religious buildings - a mosque, a church and a Tamil temple on
the outskirts of town - no one can accuse St-Benoît of being overburdened with tourist
