Marguerite's Seafood by the Sea and Margueritaville Sports Bar & Grill

Description:

• This two-in-one restaurant across from the Coral Cliff Hotel serves its seafood on a breeze-swept terrace overlooking the sea. There's also an air-conditioned lounge with an adjoining "Secret Garden." The chef specializes in exhibition cookery at a flambé grill. Although the menu is mainly devoted to seafood and fresh fish, there are also numerous innovative pastas and rather standard meat dishes. The Cheeseburger in Paradise is the most popular item on the menu, but you can also order Jamaican jerk chili, jerk burgers, and Jamaican pizza, even such Rastafarian dishes as Rasta Roots served with rice and peas. The DJ lives in a lair in the mouth of a faux great shark, and, of course, plays more than just Jimmy Buffett tunes. The homemade dessert options change, and a reasonable selection of wines is served. The sports bar and grill features a 34m (112-ft.) waterslide, live music, satellite TV, watersports, a sun deck, and a straightforward menu of seafood, sandwiches, pasta, pizza, salads, and snacks -- nothing fussy. Naturally, the bartenders specialize in margaritas, which come in 52 different flavors.

• © Frommer's 2013