Saint Barth 2011 – Day 11

We are going to Saint Barth not only for its fantastic beaches, warm weather, beautiful villas, cool shopping, but also for the real culinary experience there. We have each time a lot of fun in the different restaurants we are visiting during our stays. Sometimes a real blast as yesterday evening :-)

One of the “highlight” was our dinner at the “On the Rocks” restaurant, part of the Eden Rock hotel, one of the two Relais et Châteaux of the island. This place is very special:

Unique in the world: the hotel’s location, built on a rocky promontory thrust into the sea at St. Jean Beach and surrounded by twin crescents of sandy beach, facing a coral reef.

The stunning On The Rocks Restaurant is situated high on the rock itself, giving you un-paralleled, floodlit views of St Jean Bay while you peruse all that the tempting dinner menu has to offer.

Some pictures to concretize this experience!

Started with a Margarita and Virgin Pina Colada:

A *lot* of very tasty and fresh breads (ummhhh):

Then Oeufs pochés, purée de topinambour & lard, Emulsion aux champignons for me:

And for my wife, the Ravioli aux Portobello, Emulsion au Parmesan & Pignons de pin:

Filet de boeuf Angus, jus au raifort, pommes grenaille et mascarpone à la truffe for me:

Risotto à l’encre de seiche et aux Calamards for my wife, who has found this very very good:

Then la tartelette aux fraises avec sorbet fraise (ummhhh!):

And the Soufflé à la vanille de Madagascar et glace au chocolat for my wife (she says also: ummhhhh):

Our little boy had a very good Filet Angus with some Pene au beurre, and a Moelleux au chocolat et caramel au beurre salé, glace vanille-caramel.

So a blast for the three of us!

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 7

Toiny’s stroll

As the weather was not so good yesterday morning, we went for our nice stroll at Toiny (the so-called wild coast of Saint Barth). As usual, very nice. Weather was also better and better.

Strange clouds and colors at the beginning

Wife and son captivated by the landscape

Myself captivated by the fantastic Toiny Bay

And back to the car!

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 3

Some pictures taken by night from the villa Agave. Actually, it was fully dark (22:30) :-) But with a very long exposure (30s, which explains the blurred effect on the palm trees and the clouds) and high-ISO (1600) you can have some interesting effect. You can see some lights at the bottom of the pictures and some stars in the sky.

Villa Agave by night

Saint Barth 2011 – Day 2

Wow, first “wake-up” in Saint Barth at 06:15 this morning, which is not bad with our –5 hours time difference! So we again enjoy the 25°C in the morning ;-)

Then, we decide to go to Maya’s to Go for a breakfast, as we couldn’t buy everything yesterday day for a good holidays breakfast. There, super idea from my wife who proposed to take the breakfast and have it … on the beach! So that’s what we did :-) Breakfast at Saint Jean beach at 07:15.

What a great experience….

First swim in the ocean (27°C) and the swimming-pool (28°C). Outside: 30°C.

Life is soooo tough here, hihihi.

By the way, I have bought a new Canon lens for my 5D MarkII just before leaving: a new ultra-wide angle from Canon, the EF 16-35mm  f/2.8 L II USM, with a B+W 82mm MRC Slim UV Filter. The first “results” here (post-produced with DxO as Single HDR shot).

Breakfast on Saint Jean Beach this morning