Meals & Services

A full stock of standard spirits, house wines, ice-cold beers, soft drinks and mixers is always available together with ice, limes, etc. Help yourself night and day.

Our Cook will prepare bountiful and delightful meals for you throughout the day, including those wonderful midday snacks we are known for — and it’s all included in your rate plan.

Breakfast: early – 10.00 am

Served in the Dining Room, or on the Breakfast Patio.

Buffet style with choice of fresh fruits (often from our own orchards), yoghurt, juices, selection of cereals, coffee, teas, breads, toast, preserves, etc.

Omelettes, waffles, pancakes, bacon, sausages, local foods. On request, we can include a variety of cheeses and sliced meats.

Lunches and/or Picnic Baskets

Usually served poolside, weather permitting.

If you’re going to be at home for the day, then a light lunch can be made for you on request. Picnic baskets are also available. Please make arrangements in advance with our Housekeeper. No meal substitutions please.

Afternoon Tea: 4pm – 5pm

Served in the Drawing Room.

Choice of teas, coffee, home baked cakes, finger sandwiches, biscuits, cookies and breads.

Evening Cocktails: 6pm

Set up in the Gazebo Pool Bar. Please help yourself.

Spring House Rum punch with snacks, chips, nuts, etc.

Welcome Dinner: Upon Arrival

Served in the Dining Room.

On the day or evening of your arrival in Bequia, we appreciate that you will have been traveling for many hours and would probably prefer to relax and become acquainted with your villa rather than being obliged to make meal arrangements. Our Cook will prepare and serve a buffet meal of cold meats, salads, pasta, fruits, home-made breads and desserts. Please let us know in advance if you have special requests and/or requirements, or if your arrival times change.

Evening Meals &mdash Pre-prepared during your stay

We have visitors from many parts of the world and groups of many different compositions. We have Europeans who like to start eating a formal dinner with wine at 10 pm; we have family groups from the USA with young children who like to eat informally at 6 pm. We have people with allergies, preferences, likes and dislikes, and everything in between. We also received input from many guests that they wanted the privacy of not having staff around in the evenings. Our guests like to be able to eat at home on some evenings but wanted to go out on some evenings without feeling that they had already paid for a meal or being obligated to eat in.

In response to this input, Spring House's executive chef has composed a selection of evening meals from which you can choose … in advance of coming to stay. These are fairly simple, but interesting, meals that should appeal to everyone in your party. During the day our cook will prepare the meal and leave it for you to self-serve at your convenience, using your own kitchen or the BBQ. Our staff will do the clean-up the following morning.

This allows flexibility for you to eat when you wish, not to have to spend any of your vacation shopping for or preparing food, and maintain your privacy from staff during the evenings. In addition to your Welcome Dinner, please choose 3 meals if your stay is 7 nights, 5 meals if you are staying 10 nights, or 7 meals if you are staying 14 nights. One menu selection per night – and no substitutions please.

Menu 1: Four Cheese Lasagna, crusty French bread, served with Greek Salad. Tropical mousse.

Menu 2: "Catch of the Day", locally caught fresh fish and skewered vegetables, all prepared for grilling. Baked jacket potatoes. Lemon or lime pie.

Menu 3: Creole Chicken served with Calypso rice (seasoned vegetable West Indian rice). Tossed garden salad. Queen of Pudding served with warm Punch de Crème topping.

Menu 4: "Shake & Bake" Chicken served with scalloped potato and orange candied carrots. Spring House homemade ice cream.

Menu 5: Grilling Platter of beef burgers, chicken and sausages, marinated and seasoned ready for the BBQ. Served with Caesar salad and fresh, homemade bread. Locally grown fruit salad.

Menu 6: Prime Tenderloin Steaks from the USA, marinated and prepared for grilling. Served with Corn on the Cob and cold pasta salad. Bequia cheesecake.

Menu 7: Seafood Crepes served with a melody of lightly steamed vegetables. Coconut cream pie.

Menu 8: Spaghetti Bolognese – delicious, homemade meatballs with a West Indian flair, served over spaghetti or ziti. Served with crusty French bread and accompanied with a Garden Salad. Chocolate Amaretto snaps.

Menu 9: Tofu in Black Bean Sauce served over jasmine rice and complemented with oriental vegetables. Angel Food Cake covered with seasonal tropical fruit sauce.

Evening Meals &mdash Other Nights during your stay

Bequia is fortunate, primarily because of the visiting yacht trade, to have a large and varied selection of restaurants for such a small island. From American pizza to the finest French cuisine, from rotis in a beach bar to Mexican to local foods, we have it all. We are happy to make recommendations and your reservations.
Please check Spring House's Restaurant Guide for a full listing.

When self-catering your own meals, we invite you to experience our unique ‘supermarkets’ to choose the foods that you like, and use the full size, separate, guest kitchen (well stocked with basic items) to prepare your own evening meal. In fact, many of our guests are amateur chefs who enjoy the social side of cooking with friends. We often see visitors enjoying fish that they have caught offshore that very day.

Our chef and her staff will be happy to assist you with getting the meal pre-prepared during the afternoon so that it is oven or grill ready when you are. And of course … don’t even think of doing the washing up. By the time you get up the next morning the kitchen will be spotless again.

Late Snacks

Self-service in the kitchen.

Home made ice creams, cakes and breads. Cheese and biscuits, jams, peanut butter, coffee, teas and similar items.