Four jumbo shrimp were nicely enhanced by chopped fresh mango and a slightly sweet coconut and rum sauce.

Knife, reach me the rum sauce.

The banana-berry crepes crowned with nut-crusted ice cream and a warm rum sauce were another spectacular dessert.

A favored dessert is Ruth's bananas - a parfait of sliced bananas, vanilla ice cream and warm rum sauce.

The exquisite desserts include chocolate flan with white-chocolate ice cream and rum sauce.

The house chicken features a spirited rum sauce, two succulent pieces of meat, cubed fried potatoes and a scattering of peas and pimiento.

Apple tart a la mode, cheesecake with strawberry sauce and bread pudding with spiced rum sauce are also available.

To serve, steam for 2 hours and serve with brandy butter, rum sauce, cream or homemade custard.

One, a flat house-made slab of oozy chocolate that the restaurant calls a pâté, was rich and sumptuous, served in a thick rum sauce.

A typical breakfast is apple streusel bread pudding with hot rum sauce and sausage.