Belize Luxury Beach Resort, Portofino Beach Resort, San Pedro, Belize

Tonight here at Portofino Beach Resort we are celebrating Christmas with a lot of wonderful guests… Our Chef Ernesto and F&B Manager DJ hav been working very hard for the past few days, creating and preparing a mouthwatering Christmas Menu.

We hope that you like our Menu and wish you a Merry Christmas.

Warm Regards,

Your Portofino Family in Belize and Jan and Sandra van Noord

www.portofinobelize.com / www.portofino.bz

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***Traditional Special***

Appetizer
Homemade Leek and Potato Soup

Entrée
~TURHAMKEN~
A delicious oven roasted Turkey stuffed with boneless honey glazed Ham, Chicken and Italian Sausage Bread Stuffing.
This delicious combination is served with Turkey Gravy, Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes, fire grilled Corn and Cranberry Sauce.

Dessert
Tropical Eggnog…
Coconut flavored home-made eggnog served with thumbprint cookies

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***House Special***

Appetizer
Snapper Salad…
Chunks of seared San Pedro Snapper Fillet, Avocado, Tomatoes, Corn and cilantro served with tortilla crisps.

Entrée
~Seafood Bliss~
A fire-grilled ocean fresh Lobster tail paired with succulent shrimp and accompanied by garlic butter.
All of this will be served with Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Fire-grilled Corn.

Dessert
Tropical Eggnog…
Coconut flavored home-made eggnog served with thumbprint cookies

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***Vegetarian Special***

Appetizer
Chipotle Hummus…
Garbanzo blend with a hint of chipotle peppers.

Entrée
~Oriental Medley~
Sesame oil blanched bok choy, snow peas, mushrooms, carrots, green onion and zucchini served on a bed of glass noodles and drizzled with a tangy sesame- soy ginger glaze.

Dessert
Tropical Eggnog…
Coconut flavored home-made eggnog served with thumbprint cookies.

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This is how we buy our seafood at Portofino Beach Resort. Fresh from the Sea! Chef Ernesto and fisherman Rony meet each other at our Portofino Dock to negociate. At least twice a week we buy seafood from our local fishermen, to guarantee freshness. The catch of the day will be used to make dishes like “Suppa de Pesce”, Burrito del Mar” and “Fish Fingers” from our Lunch Menu or “Lobster a la Ritz”, “Spider Crab-laced Snapper”, “Champagne Herb Snapper”, “Linguine Caribe” and “Grouper con Mariscos” from our Dinner Menu.

World Travel Market is the second largest travel professionals’ show in the world and draws suppliers and buyers from all over the globe. Monday and Tuesday are “meridian” days strictly for accredited buyers, press, airlines and other travel related service suppliers’ . On Wednesday and Thursday travel trade and press are still present and in addition students, agents and other travel professionals are allowed into the show.

Belize had a 7m x 4 m booth, which was in the Central and South American area of the event. This was a great location and foot traffic by the booth was extensive throughout the show.  In attendance were the BTB Belize accompanied by the London based tourism personnel from the Belize High Commission, Belize Vacation Partners, Hugh Parkey Adventures Group and Belize Luxury Collection. Also Anthony Hunt from the Airlift Development Committee was present for two days.

The booth was very well decorated with floor to ceiling striking images and meeting tables and chairs, a DVD showing the latest CD of Belize and on the front counter were BTB and BHA brochures, some generic material and brochures from the private sector present.

The over riding impression of the show was that Central America is enjoying some increasing interest from many markets and that Belize is currently poised to get a lot of new traffic from Europe. Many of the tour operators cited increased requests for Belize as the reason they came to the booth to meet with us.