Alma

My wife and I dined here while staying at the Hawks Cay Resort.

We were promptly seated after checking on our reservations and offered table inside or our. The outdoor dining was great. It was not too hot nor humid.

Donalene was our attentive and friendly server. She came by serveral times to check on us.

Bethany, the manager, stopped by in the middle of dinner to ask how everything was. It's always nice to have a visit from the manager.

We started with the Truffle Mariquitas ($7)
Crispy fried plantain chips tossed in black truffle oil. These were delicious! It came with a cilantro olive oil dipping sauce. I could have eaten 5 plates of these!

My wife and I shared the Latin Wedge Salad ($11)
Baby iceberg, red and yellow tomato pico, chopped chives, queso fresco, plantain crisps, cilantro dressing.
They were nice to split the salad for us onto two plates. This was a very light and refreshing salad. The cilantro dressing complemented the salad perfectly.

I ordered the Alma's Seafood Paella ($39)
Fresh Florida catch of the day, shrimp, lobster, clams, Spanish chorizo sausage,
Calasparra Spanish rice, fresh peas in a saffron and sea food broth, caper and piquillo aioli.
Huge portion enough for two. The dish was very flavorful and the seafood was fresh and plentiful.

My wife ordered the Pan Roasted Scallops ($19) sans scallops, vegetarian style. They charged $19 instead of the normal $28 because we didn't get scallops.
Bronzed potato gnocchi, baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, exotic mushroom fricassee

The Key Lime Pie was the perfect dessert to end the meal. I loved how crumbly the crust was.

I would definitely come back!

Welcome to the best (and only good) restaurant at Hawk's Cay Resort.  The food was delicious and the setting was upscale. Prices were high though, as one would expect (entrees started at about $30). And thankfully, they had a kids' menu too (with kid prices).

After being seating at a table outside, I immediately tested the bar by ordering a Pisco Sour. Ooops...no could do, though the bartender came out to the table to offer some alternatives. I chose a green grape Calparinha, which he invented during our discussion.  It turned out to be very sweet but tasty.

My pan-seared scallops were excellent, though an amuse bouche that came out beforehand was very clumsily done - a shrimp salad and cucumber thingy that tasted 100% of cucumber; nothing of shrimp.

Nevertheless, everyone liked their meals and it was a enjoyable evening overall. The night sky was beautiful and a guitarist played by the fire pit just outside the restaurant patio.

One slight oddity was that the staff here seemed a strange fit; it appeared almost everyone was plucked randomly from the general resort staff list.  For example, one guy bussing tables that night I saw doing cleanup around the resort pool the next day. Our waitress was also our waitress at breakfast two days later, but at a different restaurant.

Tips and Tricks
-- The interior of the restaurant is connected to the lobby, which is air-condtioned to the point of freezing; make a reservation for an outside table; or bring a sweater
-- Only open for dinner; no lunch or afternoon cocktails
-- Like most restaurants at the resort, meals and drinks can be charged to the room card

Short and to the point. If you are staying at Hawks Cay this is the ONLY place to eat on the property that can actually be considered food. And it is quite delicious!

The prices here are high but the food is well worth it. Excellent service too!