Petionville restaurants

Kokoye Restaurant

During a stay at the Allamanda Hotel I ate at Macdoos and Kokoye.  The Lebanese restaurant Macdoos is about 500 ft away from Allamanda on Rue Oge.  It had great food, but loud music and a lot of people on a Friday night.  Most of the customers looked Lebanese. Kokoye is more relaxed and has outdoor seating and good pizza. On Saturday nights the band Extase is on stage. They play a combination of Haitian and Cuban/Latin music - very enjoyable and not so loud you couldn't have conversation. I also visited the Best Western restaurant Le Michel for Saturday morning coffee before heading to the nearby Galeried'art Collection Flamboyant at 9 Darguin.

Le Michel at the Best Western Hotel.

Galerie d'art Collection Flamboyant at 9 Darguin

Galerie d'art Collection Flamboyant at 9 Darguin

Macdoos menu

Macdoos menu

Falafel and vegetarian fatteh at Macdoos

Allamanda Hotel

I had the pleasure of staying at the Allamanda Hotel in Petionville for 7 nights, 2 different buildings and 3 different rooms as I traveled between the coast and Kenscoff.  The hotel operates out of 3 different buildings near the corner of Rue Oge and Rue Metellus. They serve complimentary breakfast in the restaurant Aioli at the main building at the southwest corner. Aioli provides a large space for meetings etc. The dinner menu doesn’t have a lot of vegetarian choices, but the owner helped me select a Greek salad and bannann peze with pickliz, all was very good. The building on the northeast corner has 7 rooms and is great for a group as it has a full kitchen and a common area/lobby. All the rooms were clean with wi-fi, air conditioning and hot water! The hotel is near the Lebanese restaurant Macdoos, and a short walk from the restaurants Quartier Latin and Kokoye next to Place Boyer.

Aioli Restaurant inside the main hotel building.

Greek salad minus tomatoes and olives at my request.

Complementary breakfast

The other building at the northeast corner of Oge and Metellus.

Ti Zwazo Kote W A Prale - Kreyol bird book

My 1st day in Haiti and I found bird books in Kreyol! My guide Jehu (the brother-in-law of my hosts) took me on a tour of Port au Prince the capital & Petionville, and we stopped an office building that had bird books in Kreyol & French, so I bought some of both. One was the book I used last year that I bought from the author Florence Sergile who lives in Florida. But I gave them all away last year and she didn't have anymore in the US. I visited the Musee du Pantheon, a really nice museum that tells the history of Haiti. It even has the anchor from the Santa Maria. We went to another museum at a Baptist mission that had a hodgepodge of displays. It would be a great project for one of my KU museum studies classes! Here's an interesting blog about it. The museum did have a map of the mammals of Haiti, which was a good find since there aren't many mammals & not much popular information about them. There was also a sad little zoo with a monkey, 2 goats, a crocodile in a tiny cement enclosure, doves, and lots of rabbits with 2 guinea pigs. Here's a picture of Jehu and me at Fort Jacques, as well as scenes from the drive up to the fort. The cool mountainous air felt good! My schedule is off from traveling, I think I'll try to go back to bed. In the morning my hosts here in the capital, Michael & Karen Broyles, take me to the MAF airport where Michael is a missionary pilot. I'll meet up with Mike W. and we'll fly to Pignon and stay with JeanJean & Kristie!