Rendezvous -

Suggest dinner and ordering the following;

Starters:
Thai combo
Pate

Main course - Chicken curry (better than good - it's fantastic). A coconut curry - heat level done per your request.

Desserts - all good, but if you eat all of your chicken curry you will be too full for sweets afterwards.

Prices - more or less similar to other fine dining places like Mata Chica, Casa Picasso, Rojo.

It's a limited menu, with a particular style. Every dish is cooked to order. You eat at Rendezvous because you want this taste, done well. No, it's not cheap, but for those of us who live here and who dine out as our principle form of night-time entertainment, it's woth every shilling. Think about your bar bill after a night on the town, and the price you pay the next day .......... I have never had a hangover from chicken curry!


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For the "good deal" kind of food place - I recommend the following:

Al-Baba - the falafel is only $6 BZ and is almost enough for two.

BC's Bar-b-Q - tons and tons of food - all very very good.

El Patio - the salbutes are sensational - three for $6 bz.

Mickey's - Wednesday Burrito has been a "stuff-yourself-silly" tradition for about 15 years.

Tropical Cooking - very good food, tiny price.

Elvi's - lunch with stewed chicken, rice and beans is just about perfect - wonderful food, excellent price and lots to eat.

Los Cocos - lunch-only - just as you enter San Juan area - home-cooked, limited menu - price is about $7.50 BZ for a hearty lunch.

Other recommendations for good eats -
Caliente
Blue Water Grill
Victoria House
Capricorn
Rojo
Mata Chica
Casa Picasso


And while we are at it - on your way out of Belize, make time to have lunch upstairs in the International Airport - the chef there won second prize in "Tastes of Belize". I thought I'd give it a try - and was blown away!
The menu rivals anything on AC - I had Smoked Thai-Chicken Burrito for lunch - a little "pricy" for lunch perhaps - but it was one of the best meals of my life - $8.50 US (17 BZ). The menu ranges from burgers to exotica, all in large portions, and wonderful quality. You can sit outside on the waving gallery, or inside in air-conditioning. (or get it to go - eat on the plane and drive the other airline passengers mad with envy) It's so good that it's worth arriving three hours before your flight so that you have time for a sit-down lunch.

Ciao.