Friendly, casual, locally owned by matriarch, "Ma Ruby." The kind of place that makes you fantasize you were a writer and could spend a whole season hanging out at the trellised, garden restaurant.

The rooms may be cinderblock, but it's palm trees and bougainvillea everywhere you look. A new second floor apartment over the restaurant offers two small but modern tile-floored bedrooms, Jacuzzi, and a small balcony.