Good Taste is the Worst Vice

Blanchard's is the grande dame of Anguilla fine dining - practically a lifestyle empire, with cookbooks and life coaching books, a new 'beach shack' cafe, and of course the flagship restaurant. It might not be the most exciting restaurant on the island, but Blanchard's delivers a ... continue reading...

OK, we've taken a bit of a break from my Anguilla reporting, but there are so many wonderful restaurants there that I still have a few more places to write about.  So without further ado, I give you Trattoria Tramonto. As fresh and good as the seafood is in Anguilla, sometimes I simply must ... continue reading...

Just a bit outside The Valley (the closest Anguilla has to a downtown area), there's a lovely old wooden building that dates from the late 1700s.  Known as Warden's Place, it was once a sugar plantation great house, but is now the Koal Keel restaurant and Le Petit Patissier bakery. Le Petit ... continue reading...

If I had to pick a favorite restaurant in all of Anguilla, it may well be Jacala.  At night, it's relaxed yet sophisticated in the spacious and airy dining room; at lunch, it feels like we're dining right on the beach, with a blindingly beautiful view of Meads Bay spread in front of us. We ... continue reading...

We had a few days of rainy weather during our trip, so what better to do than take a drive around the island and enjoy a late lunch?  Anguilla is just over fifteen miles long, and easy to navigate... at least once you get past the disconcerting combination of American-style right hand drive ... continue reading...