Saratoga

Frommer's Review

This is the most creative and cutting-edge restaurant in St. Maarten; it's laid-back and intensely choreographed at the same time. It's a beautiful setting, resembling a Spanish colonial structure from the outside, and lined with rich mahogany inside. You might like a predinner drink ("ultrapremium margaritas" and vodka martinis are the house specialties) in the bar. Seating is either indoors or on a marina-side veranda. The menu changes every 2 days, but there's always an artfully contrived low-fat selection like onion-crusted salmon served on a compote of lentils and sweet corn. Yellowfin tuna might be grilled with basmati rice or wasabi-flavored butter and daikon leaves. Another dish is crispy-fried black sea bass with an Asian-style sauce of fermented black beans and scallions. Rack of venison is often featured with port sauce or some other sauce concocted by owner/chef John Jackson, who hails from Saratoga Springs, New York.

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