If, like us, you’ve not been hearing much about Marblue — that multi-award-winning culinary gem in Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth — it’s because Andrea and Axel Wichterich have been in creative mode: how to give local and international visitors more bang for their buck, taste-testing new menu options, and streamlining operations.

Thursday Life delights in sharing the results:

“The menu will change weekly,” explains Chef Axel. “The plan,” he says, “is to introduce a three-course menu with two to three appetiser and soup options, mains and desserts. A daily special, weekly cooking classes and a once-a-month culinary event like From Sea To Table, where patrons will enjoy small seafood plates served party-style on the beach. I also want to have a cold seafood tower with cold lobster, shrimp, smoked marlin and fresh poached catches.”

There’s more from the amicable chef: “I’m thinking, too, of a typical Jamaican fireside cooking: a big pot of curried goat and copious amounts of fried fish.”

Thankfully, lunch is in reduction mode on the range as hunger pangs have kicked in. The sizzling pumpkin soup smells delish!

Yet another innovation is one where Chef Axel does the prepping and patrons the cooking: “We prep your chicken, salad and beverage, set up the barbecue grill and leave you to sit in the garden seafront and enjoy a romantic evening.”

Believe us, it’s that fab as well as all that we could eat from the new menu offerings.

— NMW