Francophone bar-rest Sosua Beach

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For several years now we've been very selective about eating places on Sosua Beach. In too many of them we've found the food is OK but the aftermath involves an ugly gut for a day or two. Tom's Scandinavien (numbers 150 to 153) is of course always reliable, but yesterday we thought to try another.

Caseta number 60. Bar-Resto Francophone was just great, and today: no ugly gut. Not for everyone since it's now owned by a Swiss couple who have limited English language skills. (I believe it used to be owned by people from Quebec, ditto.) But what we ate was very good and what we saw others order looked good too.

Susan says the sangria was excellent; the Presidente was cold and not in the least skunky.

Recommended for Francophones and those with some French.

wbr
 

Ken

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For several years now we've been very selective about eating places on Sosua Beach. In too many of them we've found the food is OK but the aftermath involves an ugly gut for a day or two. Tom's Scandinavien (numbers 150 to 153) is of course always reliable, but yesterday we thought to try another.

Caseta number 60. Bar-Resto Francophone was just great, and today: no ugly gut. Not for everyone since it's now owned by a Swiss couple who have limited English language skills. (I believe it used to be owned by people from Quebec, ditto.) But what we ate was very good and what we saw others order looked good too.

Susan says the sangria was excellent; the Presidente was cold and not in the least skunky.

Recommended for Francophones and those with some French.

wbr

Based on your post, I would think you would recommend it for anyone who eats on the beach, unless there is some reason why those who don't speak French are unable to order or get service.
 

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Based on your post, I would think you would recommend it for anyone who eats on the beach, unless there is some reason why those who don't speak French are unable to order or get service.

Not in the least. Aim and shoot on the menu. Presidente is presidente in any language, as is Sangria. But some people who are French-challenged might feel uncomfortable.

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maybe i have a cast-iron belly, but i have never had an 'ugly gut' in this country…and i eat in a lot of comedors.
Anyway, thanks for the headsup….is the blue and white bar that advertises selling 'real' viagra??
 

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maybe i have a cast-iron belly, but i have never had an 'ugly gut' in this country…and i eat in a lot of comedors.
Anyway, thanks for the headsup….is the blue and white bar that advertises selling 'real' viagra??

Oh my GAWD, yes you do have a cast iron belly.
My belly is not sensitive at home but within 3-5 days in the DR all hell breaks loose, and I am a veteran of 20 + trips.
My wife and I have the same issue. It usualy hits my wife 24 hours before me.
Newcomers do need to be careful. I have no doubt that with the luxury of time our bodies would combat the foreign bacteria that is attacking our "belly's".
We have been to the DR twice this winter, once to a AI and once to a non AI. Both times we got the "Puerta Plata Splatta", though we did not actually go to the North Coast on either trip.
We were speculating that maybe residual tap water from our tooth brushes or from drinking glasses washed in tap water was the potential source of the "Puerta Plata Splatta", but in the end, just speculation.
We tried to be careful avoiding freshly washed vegatables etc. but still got the "Puerta Plata Splatta".......
I must say, from our experience the AI's are deadly and we get a much worse case of the "Puerta Plata Splatta" at AI's then non AI's.
This year I am not sure we totally exercised all the demons acquired at the AI before returning and allowing the demons to be re-born....
Sorry if I was too graphic, I tried to be as PC as possible.
 

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"Puerta Plata Splatta" Love it.

But by ugly gut in this context I simply mean grumbles and cramps and a leaden feeling -- I think it's the oil they use for the French fries. And my GI tract is seventy-one years old, I used to be able too eat almost anything, now however . . .

Rumble 2005, have you tried the E. coli plus vaccine? Can't recall the name, but it's oral and taken a couple of weeks before you travel. Seems effective against some AI-GI issues. Won't do anything for Giardia though.

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. . . is the blue and white bar that advertises selling 'real' Viagra?

If it's #60 the sign is advertising a type of Pizza. I don't get the joke. Perhaps it's lost in translation.

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Trying to grasp limiting a trip to places that only speak your language in Sosua. When I first came there as an adult in 1998 or so, about the only two places in town that anyone spoke English was Rocky's and Eddy's. I think you could do a little better with German back then. Now I'm having flashbacks of Darude's Sandstorm and OXY2..

Do the Swiss couple speak German or Italian as well?
 
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The only beach food I miss in Sosua is this:

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Sundays only with the weekend vendors. I usually got fried reef fish, plantains and big plate of rice.
Never got sick eating fried food- it's the rice you have to worry about and they make it that morning... Pretty good if you get there early.
 

Rumble2005

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I also endorse Tom's.
For me and my esposa, Tom's is our favorite on the beach followed by Big D's.