About Le Tamarin
Le Tamarin is the chef-driven garden dining institution at Plage de Saline — the discreet eastern-island beach quarter, with a 200-year-old tamarin tree at the centre of the dining room — and is St Barths's most romantic dining setting. The restaurant runs as a deliberately twinkly tropical garden, with hand-strung lanterns, original West-Indian timber tables, and a 200-year-old tamarin tree that gives the restaurant its name.
The cuisine is contemporary Caribbean-French with deep regional sourcing. Signatures include a Caribbean-lobster bisque; a slow-cooked Caribbean goat with West-Indian spices; a hand-cut tuna tartare with passionfruit; a wood-fired Caribbean snapper with samphire; the famous 'tarte au coco' — a Caribbean-coconut tart for the dessert course.
The wine list runs to 350 references with deep French Champagne and Provençal-rosé coverage. The cocktail bar runs a serious aperitif programme.
The dining room and tropical-garden terrace together hold seventy-two covers; the kitchen times the dessert course with the Saline-beach sunset. Service is family-run.
Why It's Perfect for Proposal
Le Tamarin is the proposal-grade table in the Caribbean — the 200-year-old tamarin-tree garden is the conversation, the Saline-beach setting is the most discreet on the island, and the dinner-and-cocktail-at-sunset programme is the canonical St Barths evening. Book at least four weeks ahead during peak season for a corner two-top.
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