Does anyone know which restaurants will be having holiday menus, buffets and hours for dinner on Saturday Dec 24 and Sunday Dec 25? Thanks.

Steven

From previous years experience I would expect that most of them will be providing a festive menu.

Wil's Tropical Grill will be open Christmas dec 24, 25 & 26 offering a special christmas menu. They will also be open new years eve and new years day offering the regular menu.
CHECK OUT THIS SPECIAL MENU
I AM READY TO TRY IT NOW!!!

** APPETIZERS **
Proscuitto Ham Wrapped Baked Goat Cheese with Baby Lettuce, Sundried Tomato Vinaigrette and Basil

Grilled Chicken, Caramelized Onion & Cheddar Cheese Quesadillas with Sour Cream, Salsa &
Guacamole

Lump Crab Cake with a Mango Ginger Remoulade Sauce

Wild Mushroom and Portobello Mushroom Bread Pudding with a Roasted Garlic Provencal Herb
Dressing

** SOUPS **
Cream of Caribbean Lobster

Clear Roasted Pork Consomme with Tofu, Bean Sprouts, Cilantro and 5 Spice Roasted Pork

** ENTREES **
Grilled Salmon with a Mediterranean Salsa served with Homemade Ricotta Cavatelli Pasta with Basil Beurre Blanc

Grilled Beef Tenderloin with a Wild Mushroom Risotto Cake with Blue Cheese and Walnut Salsa

Roasted Duck Breast with Tutti Fruiti Marmalade and Chipolte Demi Glace and served with a Sweet
Potato Tart

Fettuccini Pasta with Sauteed Shrimp, Oven Dried Tomatoes, Basil, Asparagus with White Wine & Olive Oil

** DESSERTS **
White Chocolate Semifreddo with Raspberries and Mint

Coconut Panna Cotta with Pineapple Rum Sauce

Tiramisu
menu items subject to change due to availability

all menu items are available a la cart or
4 course dinner for 75 naf
Space is very Limited So Call Early for Reservations if you want to be there.
717-6616

Rum Runners have also posted their Christmas Menu

See http://www.habitatdiveresorts.com/bonaire/announcements.html#xmasmenu

Stewart, do you have any interest in Wil's Tropical Grill?? If you are affiliated with them, the above post is clearly against our self-promotion policies and will be deleted .. please read about them here..
TOS
If you are just a good un-affliated person posting these delicacies we thank you..

Freddie,

Stewart is a regular Bonaire visitor (he almost lives here). Pretty sure he doesn't have an affiliation with Wil's Tropical Grill.

Seb, Mary, Linda, Yana, Bas, and I will be enjoying the Christmas menu at the Den Laman restaurant on Dec. 26th, however. Not cheap, but it too looks pretty phenomenal (and happens to be the only Christmas menu I have seen), plus Bas - our picky eater - will be able to get a burger and fries or something equally pedestrian while we savor our eight course meal :-) You can ask for a copy of it at sietse@flamingotv.net

Jake

Thanks Jake, I just had to ask!!Freddie

Actually - since Stew posted a menu already, here's the one I got from Den Laman:

amuse / mimosa

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lightly seared tuna , wasabi-herb crust, soy dressing

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cream of pumpkin

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shop salad, seared scallops, soy, sesame dressing

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fish filet, coverd with creamy spinach,
crispy cheese cookie with vennelseeds and
sauce of black salsify

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spoom

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suprême of guinea fowl and caramilized chicory

or

venison steak / cranberry-cumberland sauce

or

skewer of roast quaill, bacon and mushrooms

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christmas dessert



nafl. 129,50

for reservations
kaya gobernador n. Debrot 77, phone 717-4106

Wow, I'm hungry too! I had to google "spoom." I'm assuming they serve spoom to clear the palate prior to the main entree? (boy, don't I sound like I know what I'm talking about!)

If anyone else has menus, feel free to post them for others to see!

Oh yes, please do post some more of those lovely holiday menus so that us poor slobs who can't get to the island and are stuck here in the snow and sleet get to live vicariously through you! OK...winter makes me grumpy.

Seriously...keep 'em coming! I am living vicariously through all of you!

Thanks for the menu posts. Any buffets on Dec 24, 25 or 26? The kids really like buffets.

This is the Rum Runners Christmas menu

Appetizers

-Terrine of home smoked magret de canard, confit of duck legs and goose liver
served with a pear compote and a Sancerre dressed mesclum salad
or
-Clear Thai oxtail consommé served with a mushroom wonton
or
-Steamed fresh Canadian salmon and marinated scallops wrapped in a banana leave served with a marinated citrus fruit salad
or
-Lobster nage served with fresh Catch of the day and Spiny lobster


Main course

-Deer tenderloin served with braised marinated red pear, forest mushroom and truffle flavored mashed potatoes accompanied by
a red port sauce with a hint of Dominican cacao
or
-Mediterranean flavored magret de canard served with a silver onion balsamic sauce,
home made pasta and a grilled marinated vegetable ratatouille
or
-Duo of Local Catch served with a cream of purple potatoes a shellfish beurre blanc, red beet foam and grilled green asparagus


Dessert

-Apple strudel served warm with a bourbon vanilla /pecan caramel ice cream
or
-After eight marshmallow lollipops served with chocolate chip brownies
and a creamy coconut dip
or
-Caribbean cantaloupe & mango soup served with a scoop of lime sherbet accompanied
by a marinated fresh fruit brunoise


$ 40.50 ex Ob
Home made after dinner chocolates included

For a four course dinner you can choose one of the appetizers as a second course.

Wow...it may be just the effects of the current panic diet (you know, when you try on your summer stuff--including wetsuit--and realize you won't be able to cover it all up with sweaters? Don't tell me I'm the only one) but these menus looks really, really, really good. And very sophisticated, too.

They say suffering is good for the soul. So keep the menus coming, folks! Please!

Thanks Jake, I used to say I was going home (US) for a visit. But home now is really Bonaire, I go to the US to visit family. I have no special financial or other interest in Wil's Grill except it is one of my favorite places for dinner. When friends come to visit, I always take them there and everyone likes the special attention they receive. Although Wil is a great chef, I like that he will make spagetti with ketchup if that is what the children want. He also will adjust entrees for adults if he can to satisfy every taste. If I had the menu for Swiss Chalet I would post it also as I always get a great meal there also.

Stewart, thank you for your post. I must get to Wil's Grill next visit. I wish I had Noldi and Suzy's menu to post as well. If people are interested it may be viewed at: http://www.bonairedining.com/swisschalet/menu.html

Noldi also prepares a special holiday dinner which may be view at: http://www.bonairedining.com/swisschalet/special%20meals.html

Be well all!

I talked to Lola of Cappriccio's last night. They are closed Dec 24, 25 and 31. They are open Dec 26 and Jan 1. She didn't have a menu yet but it is always good food.

Now for the more complicated one. I got this fancy three page fold out from Plaza Resort with all their Holidays events.

Dec 24 at the Banana Tree
Xmas Eve Dinner
4 different entrees plus apple pie
and a kid's menu
6pm and 8pm seatings

Dec 25
Xmas Day 4-5pm Santa at the Coconut Crash.

Xmas Day dinner at the Banana Tree
2 appetizer choices, 2 entree choices
plus cheesecake.
6pm and 8pm seatings

Xmas Day buffet at Tipsy Seagull with live music from Samara Band.
starts at 7pm

Dec 26
Boxing Day Brunch at Caribbean Point 12noon-3pm

Dec 31
New Year's Eve Dinner at the Banana Tree
6pm and 8pm seatings
4 more different entrees plus baked Alaska

New Year's Eve Live Music at Tipsy Seagull 10pm-2am

Except for the last party, you need to make reservations 717-2500 x8168 for meals, 8118

Typing in all the meal choices would have taken a half hour. But I did note that each evening the entree choices were different that the previous event and they always had a kid's menu.

Oops, x 8118 is for Santa reservations on Xmas day.

Hello Everybody - does anyone know if Bongos are doing anything on New Years Eve? We're back on the island from the 29th. Just can't wait to get back to some decent weather and diving.

We had the Swiss style ham at Swiss Chalet two years ago for Christmas dinner. Do yourself a favor and have it sometime. As some folks say - "it's to die for".

Jo - no idea on Bongos. Henk's also not particularly good with e-mail, so I don't think anything ever gets sent out about his specials.

However, I just got the Christmas Menu from Kontiki (out by Lac Bai):

Christmas Menu December
24th, 25th & 26th 2005

Wild paté “de Belie” with date-compote, mixed salad & roasted walnuts

or

Apple-fennel salad with smoked salmon, garden herbs, tomato & pesto mayonaise

***

Wild broth with sundried tomato, chiffonade of herb crepes and Madeira

or

Truffle brie cheese barded with parma ham, with tagliatelle and balsamico oil

***

Grilled Wild trio of hare fillet, deer steak and boar served with sauer kraut, pommes chateau and hunt sauce

or

Duo of baked tuna and snapper with papaya– tomato chutney, pommes chateau and Pernod saffran beurre blanc

***

Banana pie with whipped cream and vanilla ice cream

or

Sop in the pan with pecan caramel and spices sauce


Naf. 89,50 $ 51,14
5% government tax will be added to your bill

info@kontikibonaire.com