This is a local favorite restaurant, deli, food canteen truck etc. You eat here and you’re bound to see many locals at this eatery. They probably know you by name.

Please comment and announce your favorite. These votes count, so get your friends, associates, whoever to vote. Help us spread the good word on St. Thomas Restaurants.

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Best Hoity Toity Restaurant

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Best Brain Freeze

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Best Spicey Meatball

Have you joined our St. Thomas Facebook Group? If not click here:

St. Thomas Facebook Group

Here’s some funny stuff:

You gonna join our group? You know you wanna. Come on, join. JOIN- JOIN-JOIN

Here comes my first rant of the year…

The USVI Government (tax collector office) just sent out the 2006 tax bills (that’s not a typo). They had all the properties assessed a few years back when real estate was, let’s just say much higher. Now real estate is MUCH lower, yet I have to pay the assessed value from years ago?

Add to this mess that I’m probably going to receive the 2007 tax bill this year, who knows when I’ll get 2008’s bill. So I’m going to be stuck paying 3 years of tax bills because of their complete incompetence. And at the higher assessed value from years ago.

This is complete highway robbery. And do you think they’ll fix the darn potholes with any of that highway robbery money?

This is the restaurant you take the woman you love and or lust for. The food is presented well, the atmosphere gets you in the mood. If there is one place to show the one you love or lust for a good time this is it.

Please comment and announce your favorite. These votes count, so get your friends, associates, whoever to vote. Help us spread the good word.

Don’t forget to vote for (click on the links):

Best Hoity Toity Restaurant

Best Newbie Restaurant

Best Brain Freeze

Best Finger Lickin’

Best Spicey Meatball

One of my client’s, Tony Bernstein came in for the weekend to talk branding strategy, here are a few pics from our time spent on St. John snorkeling and Jost Van Dyke:

Tony snorkeling

Nicci and I

Soggy Dollar at White Bay on Jost Van Dyke

I suggested Tony increase his marketing budget and then handed him another Painkiller

It’s only 13 days until the Buzz 5th Birthday Party Bash on March 7th on St. Croix at the Fort Christian Brew Pub. Yea boy, $2 Heineken’s, 2 bands and free giveaways!

Did you know you can listen to the Buzz through your computer? I didn’t but guess what, you can! Check it out by clicking the link below:

Listen To The Buzz On My Freakin’ Computer!

How cool is that?

Want the details on the Buzz Birthday Party? Click the link below:

The Buzz Birthday on March 7th.

Nicci and I are counting down the days!

The other day we received a nasty comment from someone (he’s never commented nicely). Every blog has these nah-sayers and haters.  He’s mad because we write on St. Thomas while only living here for 3 years and in his opinion we have to be here 10 years before we can give our thoughts and experiences.  This un-named person asked why we spend so much time on what he called an “insignificant blog”?

Here’s the answer:

Hi Scott,
“I love your blog. My first trip to St. Thomas was in the winter of 1981 & have been there many times since. Although I can’t get away this winter, I’ll still be able to “visit”, thanks to you & Nicci.”
Regards,
Mary

I emailed the local who left the nasty comment and asked him to meet me for a beer. I hope we can get together. What are your thoughts St. Thomas?

Who doesn’t love Italian food? This is the time to let us know. Who’s your very Favorite Italian Restaurant in St. Thomas?

Please comment and announce your favorite. These votes count, so get your friends, associates, whoever to vote. Help us spread the good word.

Don’t forget to vote for (click on the links):

Best Hoity Toity Restaurant

Best Newbie Restaurant

Best Brain Freeze

Best Finger Lickin’

Well actually we’re 3 years old but on this domain we wrote our first post on February 18, 2008…so technically I guess we’re now year and one day old, but who’s counting! (I am)

We’ve been enjoying our blog and hope you have too.

Thanks for reading

Last Wednesday we went to Indigo for a birthday dinner in honor of our awesome buddy Tripp, otherwise known as Sam, or Secret Appraiser Man! Well, he’s not secret…but it sounded like Secret Agent Man so I went with it. But yes, he does home appraisals on the island. (need one? let us know!)

Indigo put on a good spread, we hung out with great friends and had a fun night even when the power went out halfway through! Ah, the power of a cell phone as everyone trained their phone lights on the table and we continued with no issue.

We’ve known Tripp for almost two solid years; he’s been the boyfriend of my friend Jen for one year – they met during her vacation last February and now live happily on the Northside with four cats and one soon-to-be-huge dog!

That’s right, people really do fall in love on vacation and make the move to the Rock

Happy Birthday Tripp! (check out the cool cake Jen made!)

We enjoyed your birthday week full of great dinners and a lot of laughs!!

Big news coming from The Buzz, 104.3.

They’re turning 5 and throwing a VI Massive birthday party on St. Croix. Knowing the Buzz as well as I do I can only say one thing, get the frig over to St. Croix for their birthday party bash!

As you know Nicci and I are BIG fans of the Buzz. We wrote about them here.

Here are some details of the big party:

March 7th on St. Croix at the Fort Christian Brew Pub.

The Fort Christian Brew Pub (340) 713-9820) is located in Historic Kings Alley along the picturesque Christiansted Harbor boardwalk.

They will be having some kick-ass entertainment for their party. Project 80’s (they played Yacht Haven Grande on New Years Eve) will be smashing out the 80’s tunes like this one:

They do a great cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” as well.

Also performing is Kurt Schindler, check him out:

We’ve never seen Kurt but he looks pretty damn cool.

The party is being brought to you by The Buzz, Heineken, Cape Air, The Palms and you guessed it…The St. Thomas Blog! You know if we endorse it, it will rock!

Fort Christian Brew Pub will be serving food all night and Heineken and Heineken Premium Light’s will only be $2. C’mon, $2…but wait…there’s more:

Heineken will be giving away coolers, t-shirts and hammocks. I want a freakin hammock!

…ah, these are just representations of the free stuff

Nicci and I will be posting updates to remind you guys of the big party on March 7th at Fort Christian Brew Pub.

Here I am on the Buzz with Web and Cristina (The Morning Dizzaster):

I’m the non-sexy one on the right…

Join their Facebook Group by clicking here:

Buzz Rocks!

So come out and party with The Buzz on March 7th on St. Croix at the Fort Christian Brew Pub!

Living in St. Thomas can certainly be challenging at times. What really makes you go crazy?

Up until Feb 8 you have been very cooperative…sunny, clear – fantastic!

On Feb 8, however, you took a turn. A shady, cloud-covered, rain-spotted turn. We stopped at Emerald Beach (near the airport) for a couple of hours on that day to let our guests enjoy the sun and surf one last time before stepping on their plane…and you rained on that party.

On Feb 10 I had a day off and we decided to hit the beach for some sun and tourist-watching. Well, the sun was out for a short time…and then? Shady, cloud-covered and rain. At first just a drizzle of rain that caused in a small percentage of tourists to roll up their towels and scoot undercover while the majority says to themselves (and anyone listening), “We’re in the caribbean, it only rains for minutes…right?” while searching desperately for blue skies from their beach chairs. However, on that day you kept up the cloud-covered drizzle while one by one people decided that this was not the beach day they had in mind and moved in line to wait for a safari cab to remove them from their misery. We stayed put, missing the sun and watching the scramble, until you turned up the drizzle into an actual rain. A gets-you-wet-in-a-minute rain that pushed us out of our beach chairs, into the car and away from the day. Boo.

Yesterday we woke up excited for a sunny day at Magens, our regular Sunday get together full of food, fun and rum. The outside skies seemed clear and bright in the morning, and stayed that way until we reached the beach around 11:30. I took a long walk in the water with Island Newbie (not so new anymore…) and we watched as the clouds came, turned dark and started spitting rain. Ugh. We got back to our beach spot, sat down and for the rest of the day begged for the sun to come out for good. Fortunately for us you finally did, at the late afternoon hour of 3:30/4-ish. Until then we endured shade, drizzles and at one point a solid little rain that almost propelled me from my chair to my couch.

So, in conclusion, I’d like you to, well, knock it off. Or pick different days…like non-weekend days…in which to drop your rain. Normally we love the rain, it fills our cistern and waters our plants, but you can do that through the night while we sleeping, not when we have our toes in the sand and are hoping to get a little color before Monday morning approaches.

I hope we have reached an understanding.

Sincerely,

Da Bloggers

Here we go folks, the St. Thomas 2009 Carnival is just 2 months away!

Schedule

Sunday April 12th: Prince & Princess Show, 5pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Saturday April 18th: Queen Selection Show, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Sunday April 19th: Toddlers Derby, 5pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium and Traditional Games, 7pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Monday April 20th:  Hospital Carnival, 6pm – Schneider Hospital lobby

Tuesday April 21st: Junior Calypso Competition, 8pm - Lionel Roberts Stadium

Wednesday April 22nd: Cultural Night, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Thursday April 23rd: Latin/Calypso Night, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Friday April 24th: Opening of Carnival Rides, 6pm – Fort Christian Parking Lot and Soca Explosion, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Saturday April 25th: Calypso Revue, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Sunday April 26th (my birthday!): Water Sports, 10am – Charlotte Amalie and Steelband Jamboree, 5pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Monday April 27th: Opening of Carnival Village, 6pm – Fort Christian Parking Lot

Tuesday April 28th: Pre-Teen Tramp, 6pm – Rothschild Francis “Market” Square to Children’s Village and Senior Citizens Quelbe Tramp, 8pm – Rothschild Francis “Market” Square to Carnival Village

Wednesday April 29th: Cultural Fair, 8pm – Emancipation Garden

COME JOIN NICCI AND I FOR J’OUVERT!

Thursday April 30th: J’ouvert warm-up 12:30am (that’s NOT a typo) then J’ouvert at 4am (again, NOT a typo) – Veterans Drive and V.I. Lottery Local Calypso, 8pm – Lionel Roberts Stadium

Friday May 1st: Children’s Parade, 10am – Rothschild Francis “Market” Square to Lionel Roberts Stadium

Saturday May 2nd: Adults Parade, 10am – Western Cemetery to Lionel Roberts Stadium and Fireworks, 9pm – Charlotte Amalie and Last Lap, 10pm-2pm – Fort Christian Parking Lot

This was taken from the VI Daily News so please double check before going out