begins with a beautiful rainbow and the slow deliberate passage of a pristine cruise ship in the harbor below as you look out to sea. This was the first Sunday brunch at Ladera since hurricane Tomas and it did not disappoint.
The sun was bright as the old musicians played their gentle, peaceful renditions of traditional Lucian music, the perfect accompaniment for a slow luscious meal. The brunch offers more of a local flair to the cuisine with mac and cheese, coleslaw, pineapple/chicken salad, red beans and rice and fabulous pumpkin gratin. The grill smokes lightly in the corner as you watch the chefs prepare chicken, snapper and barracuda. A giant beef tenderloin grilled to perfection is sliced to order and several sauces are available to enhance its flavor.
Even the plaid skirts that adorn the tables are remnants of times gone by when these plaids were worn by most everyone. The dessert table is filled with chocolate layered cheesecake, fresh local fruits with the most delectable passion fruit halves and a more local version of cheese cake dripping with fresh cocoa sauce.
Below us at the beach at Jalouise a barge labors with imported sand to replace the fine, white sugar sand that has been washed to sea by Tomas. Once the sand at Jalouise was the coarser black sand that is prominent on other parts of St. Lucia.
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