St Barth Rose is now available. The grapes are from a private vineyard on the slopes of Grand Fond. For more information, call 590 690 54 18 55.

Good news for all of you who remember La Gloriette and Albert's delicious vanilla rum (rhum vanille). You can now buy La Gloriette's rhum vanille at the AMC grocery store in Gustavia. It's in the aisle with the fruit drinks next to the aisle with the wine and liquor.

Funny Face, the bookshop in Gustavia, is closing and has already begun selling all of its furnishings.

Central Park opened on November 21 in the previous location of La Gamelle in Gustavia. It is owned by one of the two owners of L'Entracte (the restaurant with the blue, neon coconut tree on the harbor in Gustavia). The restaurant is open Monday-Saturday from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm and from 6:00 pm until they close. The Plat du Jour at lunch is 10 euros or 15 euros with a drink and coffee.

Le Diamant, in St Jean by the lagoon, has reopened with its usual menu of French and Creole cuisine and the addition of pizzas to eat there or to go.

Cuisine, an Italian restaurant, will open sometime between December 5 and December 10 in the former location of La Saladerie on the harbor on La Pointe in Gustavia.

A few new boutiques have recently opened in Gustavia. Vilebrequin, a popular brand of men's bathing suits, has opened a flagship store next to Bulgari. Reef has opened a boutique across from Bijoux de la Mer and Christiane Celle, who has a clothing boutique in St Jean, has opened an art gallery.