RESTAURANTS AND BARS
RESTAURANTS
Thatches (seats 450)
Spacious and tropical, the main restaurant,
on the terrace, is open daily from 7:30 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m. for buffet breakfast.
Dinnertime, from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.,
showcases demonstrative World Cuisine for
a totally new and exciting dining experience.
The new buffet features several themed livecooking
stations with food prepared fresh in
front of the guests: a Chinese fresh-noodle and
stir-fry station; a curry station with traditional
Mauritian ‘case-créole’ cuisine, a tandoor
(Indian clay oven) and colourful Indian dishes;
a huge salad station; a pasta station; a pizza
station with its wood-fired oven; a grill and
a dessert counter with a daily hot dessert
prepared live and even a Kids’ Ice-Cream
Bar. For the more romantic, the restaurant also
features cosy thatched dining pavilion around
a striking decorative and reflective pond.
Paul et Virginie (seats 120)
By the beach, with romantic thatched
dining pavilions overhanging Le Morne
mountain across the sea, the rustic
charm of the à-la carte Paul & Virginie
restaurant favours warmth and intimacy.
At lunchtime, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
daily, it proposes a selection of popular
island cuisine, wood-fired pizzas, grilled,
smoked or steamed fish, tossed salads and
sandwiches.
Its dinner offering, from 7:30 p.m. to
10 p.m., Monday to Saturday, is more
sophisticated, with a focus on seafood and
healthy stir-fries, and features select items like
scallops, oysters, mussels, giant prawns and
lobster, around the restaurant’s signature multichoice
concept (smoked to order, grilled or
steamed). The wine list includes a variety of
South African and New World wines, with a
focus on great value for money.
La Badiane (seats 40)
Adjacent to the main restaurant, the alfresco
‘La Badiane’ is enriched by a spice garden
whose scent and sweet perfume is a complete
invigorating experience for the guests.
La Badiane offers an authentic Mauritian
dining experience from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
six days a week.
Citronella’s Café (seats 120)
Oceanside Italian market-place restaurant
offering light meals, baked wood-fired Pizza
and salads at lunch time. Regional authentic
Italian cuisine at dinner. Lunch 12.30 a.m. to
3 p.m. Closed Mondays. Dinner 7 p.m. to
10 p.m. Closed Sundays.
Tides (seats 100)
Located at the beach front, this restaurant
offers a World Sea Cuisine. The centrepiece
is an elaborate crustacean and seafood
counter that appears to float on illuminated
ice. Here guests compose their own
seafood platter from fresh shellfish, mussels,
oysters and a variety of handmade Sushi
and Sashimi. The kitchen is equipped with
a specially designed fish room to ensure
the highest quality during the handling and
preparation of fish and seafood dishes.
Lunch 12.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner 7 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
Dress Code
Long trousers and shirts with collars are de
rigueur for men in the evenings.
BARS
Blue Bar (seats 90)
The bar offers a wide choice of
contemporary tropical cocktails and rums
and an important selection of beverages,
liqueurs, beers and spirits of international
brands, as well as delicious espressos from
10 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily.
The Coco Kiosk Bar (seats 50)
The ‘Coco Kiosk’ bar is adjacent to
the pool and offers a wide variety of
coladas (Pinacolada, Litchicolada, Mangocolada….) served in fresh coconuts
with different style presentation as well as
health line cocktails and tropical fruits from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach Bar (seats 75)
Overlooking the Indian Ocean, near the
nautical club, the bar opens at 10 a.m.
daily and closes at midnight every day. In a
relaxed atmosphere with a spectacular seaview,
it offers fresh fruit juices, vegetable
juices, milk-shakes and other beverages as
well as a superb selection of espressos.
Food consists of light snacks: Mauritian
snacks, sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, and
exotic ice-cream at lunchtime as well as
pastries and pancakes for five o’clock tea.
A beach golf-cart provides refreshments
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
