La Rougaille Créole is not trying to be a destination restaurant — it's trying to be the best neighbourhood lunch spot in Belle Mare, and it succeeds completely. The restaurant is a converted family home with tables in a garden shaded by a large mango tree, just off the main road a few hundred metres from the beach. Rosie, who opened it a decade ago, cooks everything herself with occasional help from her daughter, and the menu is simply whatever she made that morning: usually two or three curries, a rougaille, a daube, and a dessert of halwa or banana fritters. The cari capitaine (fish curry) is the dish that regulars will queue for — made with fish from the morning market, thick and deeply spiced, with enough heat to build gradually and enough coconut to soften the edges. The mine bouilli (boiled noodles with shrimp) is made from Rosie's grandmother's recipe and is the most Mauritian thing on the menu. The set lunch — a choice of main, rice, rougaille, chutney, and a glass of fresh fruit juice — costs a fraction of anything in the resort hotels and tastes considerably better than most of them. La Rougaille Créole fills up quickly on weekdays when the hotel workers from Belle Mare's resorts use their lunch break to come here; arrive before noon for a table.