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FAMILY-FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS
Café Roma
(p. 125)This informal place
is a family favorite with the best pizza
on the island.
Miss Lucy's
(below)There is no better
place in St. John to introduce your child
to West Indian cookery than this restau-
rant. It's fun, it's local, and families enjoy
it, often ordering a big paella that all
members can feast on. The fish is
among the best on the island.
Rhumb Lines
(p. 125)Children will
love the South Seas ambience and the
Caribbean/Pacific Rim cuisine at this
restaurant with a designated kids'
menu. The appetizers are among the
island's best.
There's also a tender grilled filet mignon stuffed with crabmeat. A beautifully pre-
pared chicken Wellington is one of the chef 's specialties. The most popular night
of the week here is Wednesday with the all-you-can-eat peel-and-eat shrimp feast
for $19.
In the Lemon Tree Mall, Konges Gade, Cruz Bay.
&
340/776-6425.
www.limeinn.com. Reservations
recommended. Main courses lunch $7.95-$13, dinner $19-$28. AE, MC, V. Mon-Fri 11:30am-3pm and
5:30-10pm; Sat 5:30-10pm. Closed Sept.
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Miss Lucy's
CARIBBEAN For the broadest array of island cuisine, nobody
does it better than Miss Lucy. Her food is the way it used to taste in the Caribbean
long before anyone ever heard of upscale resorts. Before becoming the island's most
famous female chef, Miss Lucy was a big hit with tourists as St. John's first female
taxi driver. Her paella is scrumptious: a kettle brimming with hot Italian sausage,
deep-fried chicken, shrimp, and mussels over perfectly cooked saffron rice. Tradi-
tional conch fritters appear with a picante sauce, and you can gobble them down with
Miss Lucy's callaloo soup. She has a magic touch with this soup. Her fish is pulled
from Caribbean waters, and does she ever know how to cook it! When a local fisher-
man catches a wahoo, he is often likely to bring it here for Miss Lucy to cook. Main
dishes come with
fungi,
a cornmeal-and-okra side dish. At one of her “full moon par-
ties,” she'll cook a roast suckling pig. For dessert, try her banana pancakes.
Salt Pond Rd., near Estate Concordia, Coral Bay.
&
340/693-5244.
Reservations recommended. Main
courses $13-$30. AE, MC, V. Tues-Sat 11am-2pm and 6-9pm; Sun 10am-2pm.
Morgan's Mango
CARIBBEAN The chefs here roam the Caribbean for tantaliz-
ing flavors, which they adapt for their ever-changing menu. The restaurant is easy to
spot, with its big canopy, the only protection from the elements. The bar wraps
around the main dining room and offers some 30 frozen drinks. Some think the
kitchen tries to do too much with the nightly menu, but it does produce some zesty
fare—everything from Anegada lobster cakes to spicy Jamaican pickapeppa steak. Try
flying fish served as an appetizer, followed by Haitian voodoo snapper pressed in
Cajun spices, then grilled and served with fresh-fruit salsa. Equally delectable is
mahimahi in Cruzan rum-and-mango sauce. The knockout dessert is the mango-
banana pie.
Cruz Bay (across from the National Park dock).
&
340/693-8141.
Reservations recommended. Main
courses $16-$34. AE, MC, V. Daily 5:30-10pm.
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