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Anguilla Diary: Dec 19, 1999 to January 1, 2000
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Here is a day-by-day compendium of
news items, as we gathered them - starting with the most recent.
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Leduc's.
Starting today, Leduc's French Restaurant
in West End is open for breakfast and lunch 9am-2pm except Wednesday and Thursday.
Dinner hours remain from 6:30pm. Closed Wed. 497-6393
Ripples.
Jacquie Ruan (Phone: 264-497-3380, Email: [email protected]), owner of this restaurant on Sandy Ground,
has Early Bird Specials every Saturday night:
WELL HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL AND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALL EATEN TOOOOO MUCH
HERE ARE THE EARLY BIRD SPECIALS......
ROAST BEEF AND YORKSHIRE PUDDING WITH OOOODLES OF FRESH VEG...........
GRILLED SNAPPER ON POLENTA AND A MEDLEY OF FRESH GREENS
MUSHROOM LINGUINE IN A DELICIOUS CREAM SAUCE..............
ALL FOR TEN DOLLARS .......US OF A
SO REST WELL AND GIVE US A CALL IF YOU NEED A BIG TABLE AS ITS THAT CRAZY
TIME OF YEAR BIG KISSES TO YOU ALL AND PLEASE HAVE A SPECTACULAR ONE .
XXXXXXXXXXX JACQUIE
Friday, December 31, 1999
Bougain Villa.
Pierrette and Normand Tremblay have decided to put their
beautiful Anguilla home up for sale so they can travel more.
Normand has created a web site for
the waterfront complex near Little Harbour, which is called Bougain Villa.
Click Here for lots of pictures
and full features. They
have priced it to sell at $795,000. (That sounds
like a lot, but you could not build their home for that price.)
Thursday, December 30, 1999
Barrel Stay Is Open!
Bob from Barrel Stay in Sandy Ground (Phone: 497-2831, Email: [email protected])
writes:
Happy to report that Barrel Stay is open for business since last week for lunch and dinner. Hours 12:00-3:00 and 6:30-9:30p.m. Please join us on Sandy Ground.
-Bob and staff.
P.S. The fish soup is better than ever.
Happy New Millennium
New Years. Every restaurant on the
island is having some kind of New Years bash
and every band is employed. And the prices aren't
too bad, about $100 per person. For example,
Santorini Restaurant at the new CuisinArt
resort has a Five Course Dinner for $100, plus
live music featuring Resident Opera Singer Michael
Amante, Resident Harpist Ruth Garita, plus
Keith Gumbs and band. 498-2000. Or go to
a DJ dance at Masara on Katouche Bay ($10 at the door) or Dine, Dance,
Moet & Chandon, and Fireworks at Frangipani for $150 ($15
only for the dance and fireworks). All these choices taken from
advertisements in this weeks issue of The Anguillian.
Wednesday, December 29, 1999
Old House Restaurant.
We now have their menu for
breakfast, lunch and dinner online.
Italian Translation of Dec 18th News.
Gaetano Di Palo has
posted a translation of the last News.ai update.
Click here.
Monday, December 27, 1999
Please review Menus.ai - we have
created a new Anguilla Restaurant Guide at
menus.ai and
we could use some feedback.
Please take a look at send any corrections, additions, or suggestions
to [email protected] - keep in mind that we are trying to make it
easy to maintain, which is why the main directory is somewhat sparse.
Sunday, December 26, 1999
Hibernia Menus.
We have the new Hibernia Menu
for this season, as well as their New Years menu ($99 fixed price).
More Post Lenny Pictures.
Gilbert Fleming has added post-hurricane beach pictures to his
Hurricane Lenny web site, where he
also has pictures of reconstruction and "before" and "after" shots.
Friday, December 24, 1999
ProVillas has a number of Anguilla villas available on
their web site
Royal Palms. Royal Palms is
an apartment/suite hotel on South Hill. Read about it
on their web page.
Roy's Place Web Site.
Roy's resturant and apartments on Crocus Bay have a web site
roysplace.ai
Lambert's Web Site.
Roger Lambert (email: [email protected]) writes:
I first made a web page: www.lambertventures.com for making an advertisement to benefit Mac Brooks for Masara Resort and Caribella Beach Resort. We have been friends for almost 20 years and I wanted he and his family to be of benefit because I have always believed that Anguilla should benefit Anguillians.
Roger's site has detailed information and
booking services for
Masara Resort on Katouche Bay, plus on Barnes Bay, Caribella Resort and
Arbron Villas (owned by Arthur Richardson).
Lynne Bernbaum Show.
Lynne Bernbaum has a colourful and imaginative new style - "Turn of this Century" - where each
work can be viewed in any of four sides.
Lynne's new works will be on exhibit at the new Devonish Gallery in the West End,
starting with an opening party on January 1, 2000, 5pm-8pm.
Remax.
Lindy Tamn has become the ReMax realty representative on Anguilla.
She is still doing villa rentals as well as real estate. Her web site is
remax.ai
Thursday, December 23, 1999
More On Blanchard's Restaurant.
Melinda Blanchard, the executive chef, sent me her dinner menu and new take-out,
using Email attachements for the first time (and successfully). You can study them (and drool)
on the News.ai Blanchards page.
The new menu looks yummy: Crispy Crusted Snapper Filet
drizzled with a Thai citrus glaze.. $35.
Phone ahead for
dinner orders (497-6100). Picnic orders can be placed the night
before. A few items that caught my eye on the new takeout menu:
Hummus with crackers $6, Creamy dill potato salad $4,
Whole roast chicken (about 3 libs) stuff with lemons and thyme $16,
Coconut cupcake (1 large) $3.
Catering is available from the regular menu and the take out
menu.
Wednesday, December 22, 1999
New Year's Eve at Blanchard's.
See in the new millennium at Blanchards
on Meads Bay.
Crusty Grilled Shrimp with a Soy & Sesame Sauce
Roasted Tomato-Basil Soup
Caesar Salad with Parmesan-Crusted Oysters
Passion Fruit Sorbet
Stuffed Veal Scalopine in White Wine and Herbs
Grilled Local Crayfish with Roasted New Potatoes
Mangoes & Cream with Cinnamon
Live music by Happy Hits String Band.
125.00 per person. 15% service charge. 1-264-497-6100. [email protected]
Restaurant ICI on the grounds of the Sonesta has a new
web site.
La Veranda Web Site.
This Caribbean-French restaurant on the road to Sandy Ground now
has a web site at laveranda.ai, including
a special dinner for Christmas night.
Mangos Web Site. This restaurant on Barnes Bay has
a web site at www.mangos.ai,
with a menu, but no prices.
La Sirena Web Site.
The La Sirena resort has a nice web site in both English and German at
www.la-sirena.com
Discuss Internet Access With Your Hotel.
Anguilla has had Hot-Inet access for 4 years, but some hotels
do not know about it. This communication
option gives you Internet access for 25 cents per minute without opening an
account at the ISP. It appears like a long distance charge or a 900 number. However,
unless you discuss this with the hotel and ensure they know about it, their switchboard and
accounting system may charge you the standard long distance rate plus surcharge (could be as
much as $3.00 per minute).
Chinese Food.
The Light House restaurant in South Hill has a wide selection of
chinese dishes. Click here
for their entire menu.
Tonight - Full Moon Bash.
Dec 22, from 7:30pm
until... Serenity
. Shoal Bay. 497-3328. Come for dinner
or join them on the beach for your
after dinner drink. Music and free hors d'ouevres.
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Police Week. Tickets for the Annual Police Week Supper and Dance,
scheduled for Saturday, 29th January, 2000, are US$20 (EC$53). Dress is
Formal (suit and tie). Place: House of Chandeliers.
This is part of a week of activities, which in past years has included a fashion show, a performance
of the police choir, a block party, and more.
Leduc's Season 2000 Menu.
We have posted Leduc's new menu of contemporary French cuisine
on our web site. This sounds
good: WHITE GAZAPACHO Chilled Soup Of Ground Almonds And Garlic With Grapes & Grated Apples 8.00
Monday, December 20, 1999
Pictures of New CuisinArt Resort.
The manager of CuisinArt has sent me some pictures taken
on December 20, 1999, the day of the new resort's opening.
To see eight views of the new resort, click here.
Revised: 2000/1/7
