Friday Night Dinner Recs

[JEK]

Great recon!

[cec1]

Returning from Baz Bar tonight with the skinny…the lowdown…the details. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday. Friday is African music theme. Saturday is a chanteuse who does it all from jazz, rock, standards, , Piaf, Amy Winehouse….everything! Music starts at 8:30 and wraps at midnight.

Glad to help.

Over and out.

Love the talent of embedded researchers!

[KevinS]

16 year old girl…call me old fashioned and book Langouste. She can watch the lobster tank in action, swim in the pool if she would like to be active rather than table bound, or look out at Flamands Beach and the stars above, maybe a bright moon, for excitement as she gets in touch with the beauty of St Barths and her planet and gets to know what really makes lifetime memories.

Sounds like a nice family getaway, enjoy!

My only concern about La Langouste is finding it in the dark. If you’re not familiar with the location then it can be difficult.

[Rocket]

16 year old girl…call me old fashioned and book Langouste. She can watch the lobster tank in action, swim in the pool if she would like to be active rather than table bound, or look out at Flamands Beach and the stars above, maybe a bright moon, for excitement as she gets in touch with the beauty of St Barths and her planet and gets to know what really makes lifetime memories.

Sounds like a nice family getaway, enjoy!

This gets my vote

[cassidain]

I've never been to La Langouste. Is it "fun and upbeat"?

[andynap]

I've never been to La Langouste. Is it "fun and upbeat"?

No. Nice ride end of Flamands, parking, little rooms for rent, small pool, good food. Sedate crowd.

[cec1]

No. Nice ride end of Flamands, parking, little rooms for rent, small pool, good food. Sedate crowd.

There also is a stairway from the pool area down to Flamands beach, which is very convenient for restaurant diners who want a quick dip in the sea between courses & for hotel guests.

The restaurant, located in a small hotel, “Hotel Baie des Anges,” is at Flamands Beach, as Andy describes. Owner / proprietor of the property is Annie Ange . . . a lovely lady & legendary restaurateur of the island. Though Annie no longer operates the restaurant, “La Langouste,” she’s often at the hotel’s front desk, which one passes in entering the restaurant, & I’m confident that she subtly monitors restaurant operations & quality. While La Langouste isn’t a wild & crazy place, it definitely is — IMO — a gracious, very pleasant environment with fairly consistent, high quality food . . . and is one of a small number of places where live langoustes in a tank generally are available. Service, unfortunately, can be uneven when the restaurant is filled, as servers hustle, but have a hard time keeping up with food & drink service.

[NancySC]

Suggest that anyone planning to go to Langouste take a drive out there in daylight to scope out where the turn is & the little sign that hopefully is still there. Always enjoyed going there, dessert of floating island, yummy !

[PeterLynn]

We stay on Flamands, so it is a nice walk down the beach to La Langouste. I'll second the easily overwhelmed service. We try to get there before 7:30 and get one of the first tables and have had attentive and personal service. If the restaurant fills up, maybe half our visits, then patience is required for "l'addition", let alone the actual meal.

[amyb]

We stay on Flamands, so it is a nice walk down the beach to La Langouste. I'll second the easily overwhelmed service. We try to get there before 7:30 and get one of the first tables and have had attentive and personal service. If the restaurant fills up, maybe half our visits, then patience is required for "l'addition", let alone the actual meal.

Exactly what we have found the service to be for the last 3 years. But a tranquil spot for locals and visitors and we roll with it. Well, until it gets really annoying.

[JEK]

Exactly what we have found the service to be for the last 3 years. But a tranquil spot for locals and visitors and we roll with it. Well, until it gets really annoying.

Sounds so fun and so upbeat! (See OP, 40 opinions or so up )

[cassidain]

Sounds so fun and so upbeat!

+1

[PeterLynn]

Sounds so fun and so upbeat!

The French customers never seemed to be fazed. Only the Americans.

[cassidain]

The French customers never seemed to be fazed. Only the Americans.

cultural difference. i personally wouldn’t impute an elevated status to tolerance for poor service.

[cec1]

cultural difference. i personally wouldn’t impute an elevated status to tolerance for poor service.

LOL! d’accord . . . and an elegant calculation of the situation.

[bkeats]

Friday is African music theme.

Ah, so I was remembering the music and it was a Friday night.

Thanks Amy!