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Le Petit Café Frommer's Recommended

Royal Plaza Mall (downtown Oranjestad), Oranjestad

Frommer's ReviewMap It
Cuisine Seafood, Steak
Hours Mon-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 6-11pm
Location In Oranjestad
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 297/583-8471
Prices Main courses $18-$33
Credit Cards AE, MC, V

Le Petit Café Review

When they say the plate's hot here, they mean it. Le Petit Café offers seafood and beef served on stone platters as hot as molten lava. With the "stove" at your table, you determine how much your meal's cooked. A boon on breezy evenings, a hot plate is a mistake during the heat of the day. The pink and turquoise stucco walls fit right in with the confectionery architecture of the surrounding shopping mall. Start things off with a Crazy Monkey; boasting vodka, Bailey's Irish Cream, Kahlúa, crème de banana, and amaretto, it covers three of the major food groups. The crispy conch fritters are a good appetizer. For the main course, jumbo shrimp "on the stone," marinated in olive oil and enough garlic to keep vampires at bay, tastes like it just came off the barbie. The lobster, shrimp, and beef tenderloin combo is just as flavorful.

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