Does anyone recall this place?

[Weathermon & Mi Lady]

Had many dinners at Petes. The special always seemed to be lobster in garlic butter. In the evening they would pull the tables out on the beach. They would use red Stripe bottles for candle holders, with plastic translucent cups as a candle shade. (it also kept the wind from blowing out the candle) As the candle burns down, you simply slide the cup down also. I still like to do that here at home!

Thanks for the remembering. That candle idea is great!

[Weathermon & Mi Lady]

We first featured Pete's and Mavis' back in Sept 1996 on our Negril Today pages - click on the link below for a blast from the past!

Thanks, Rob! Apparently we missed out on a good thing as I don't remember ever going there. Of course, I can't remember last week either.

WM

[mrjohn08]

I miss Pete's. After Pete passed away, his son Clive took over the business and, unfortunately, one of the hurricanes wiped him out. I hear Clive is cooking at one of the hotels.

My first (and last) experience with ganja cake happened at Pete's. Wicked.

[Ras Walleye]

I was introduced to this place as Famous Pete's. It was on my very first visit to Negril in 1999 and provided a great memory and my first lesson in soon come. I was there as part of a group of 40, mostly newbies, for a wedding and one evening early in our stay a bunch of us wandered down the beach looking for a late dinner. The bride had been to Negril several times and really wanted some pumpkin soup and had eaten at Pete's before. When we got to Pete's there was was nothing going on but we were assured that dinner for eight with pumpkin soup would be "no problem mon". We ordered drinks and eventually they came. I think they had to run to the store to get them. By then we were more than ready to order dinner. Our choices were fish and chicken. Again I think they ran to the store after we ordered and roughly an hour later our soup arrived and was served with a flourish. "Pumpkin soup for de lady, conch soup for de gentleman, shrimp soup for you etc. Of course it was all the same soup with some of everything in each bowl. Eventually the dinners came and the food was good if unremarkable. But the evening and the company were fantastic and the memory lives on.

[poolguywindsor]

Back in 1990 we ate there most nights, and had a ganga cake experience there too,lol

[Yvonne]

I first ate at Pete's in the mid '80s. Loved the picnic table on the beach... very easy to meet your fellow diners. It was here that I learned how long it would take to get dinner in Negril... usually a 3 hour wait. Sometimes I'd buy nuts from a passing vendor to hold me over until dinner finally arrived.

[LeeLee]

OMG Pete's! Absolutely the longest wait ever for a meal in Negril, but also one of the best meals ever... worth the wait.

I think Patricia is correct about what happened. As for what's there now, I think there's a little bar... Sunny-something?

That is my memory exactly --- long long wait, yummy foot, toes in the sand.

[Hateswinter]

many good memories of Pete's Place.........they brought the picnic tables out as more people came. It is very true that dinner would take 3 hrs before serving.....had to be very careful not to have too many red stripes so you remembered what you ordered!!!! Mavis and sons was right next door........she had some pretty good patties

[Hateswinter]

If Im remembering correctly.......I think you can still see the concrete slab where Mavis and sons was at

[poolguywindsor]

Where Sunnyside is now, is where we stayed when we ate at Pete,s on that trip in 90. It was the Sunbeam cottages, which are gone now. They were owned by a guy named Bradley, he passed years ago and the property went to his brother Michael that Maureen rents from.