Roatan Restaurant review - The Deck Cafe and a recent trip to Rendezvous Susshi

I have had two great foodie experiences lately. One is a new place in the French Harbor / Mt Pleasant area called the DECK cafe. Great curry, stir fry and other dishes. I have tried it twice for lunch and really been impressed with the food and service. My first meal was the chicken curry. They did it right with nice chutney sauce, bananas sliced to take away the heat and it was just the right consistency. My 2nd meal I had a chicken stir fry and was in love with the fresh veggies, perfectly cooked noodles and a good quantity of chicken. Both meals I had a spring roll for an appetizer which was also very nice. Check it out. As you can see from my buddy Marks picture on this blog he enjoyed it as well!

The 2nd place in this double header of eatery critiques is Rendezvous Sushi in West Bay. I frequent this place about once every 2 months or so and am never disappointed. Great seaweed salad, imported Japanese beers ice cold and plenty of quality fish. Eric is the man running the sushi bar and he never disappoints with some neat takes on classic sushi fare. He recently started serving a sushi pizza with rice cake consistency crust its really neat. The topper on this last trip was lionfish sushi however. Lionfish for the un-initiated are a Pacific fish with spikes that are poisonous. Now they are an invasive species and quite a menace in the Caribbean. They have very few to no natural predators in these waters and are voracious eaters on small reef fish. The local dive communities across the Caribbean and S. Florida are trying to counteract this issue with spearing them etc. Eric at Rendezvous is helping raise awareness and get rid of the bi-product to this spearing by serving Lionfish sushi and Sashimi. The taste is not bad very mild white fish with a micro bone consistency that is similar to anchovies or sardines only in feel not in taste. It was real treat to try something so different and I give kudos to Eric for putting it on the menu. Check it out next time your in town or ask for your local sushi place to consider it to help raise awareness to this problem.