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Cafe Sol: Margaritas and Salsa. Yum!

  • October 1, 2008
  • Rated 3 of 5 by Carmen from Fairfax, Virginia
Cafe Sol: Margaritas and Salsa. Yum!

To be honest, there’s only so much chicken and flying fish a girl can eat before she starts to grow feathers or scales, so when I heard about the one and only Mexican restaurant in St. Lawrence Gap, about a 5-minute cab ride from the Bougainvillea Beach Resort, I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to get out of the resort and grab a bite of something different.

It’s location in St. Lawrence Gap is one of the bonus highlights. The bay there is beautiful, especially at sunset. "The Gap" is also where the majority of the island’s nightlife takes place, though we were there during "off" season, and there wasn’t much "life" to have any nightlife be obvious.

Café Sol is a fairly small establishment, decorated with Mexican sun sculptures and colorful chili-pepper lights. They’re famous for their margaritas, which come in a plethora of flavors, including banana and mango. I went for the traditional strawberry, and it was good, but I can’t say that it was world-famous or anything.

The chips and salsa weren’t free, as standard in U.S. Mexican restaurants, but were nice and warm and toasty with fairly spicy salsa (though were they worth the $8 U.S. is a whole other question.) What is odd is that I chose nachos as my main meal, as if I couldn’t get enough chips into my system, but the cheese and beef made them even tastier. The portions were big, and I couldn’t even make a dent in my food. The good thing about having a kitchenette is that you can get a to-go box and warm up the leftovers the next day, though we never actually followed through on that particular idea.

The staff was friendly, but not overly attentive, which I think is a Barbados thing and not a portent of bad service. They just all move on island time.

The total bill for two people with a margarita each was about $50 U.S. I thought that was pretty expensive for Mexican food, which by its nature is supposed to be inexpensive. However, that’s any food in Barbados that’s not chicken or fish.

I’d recommend that people give it a try, knowing what they should expect.

From journal Barbados: Living on Island Time

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