Fusion Restaurant Wine & Piano Bar — Restaurant in Oranjestad (city)

Fusion is also walking distance from Bucuti, so we decided to give it a shot. Ive read some complaints that Fusion adds an 18% service charge to the tab. That fact is clearly stated on both pages of the nicely backlit menu and the charge is evenly shared with all servers. The benefit here is all servers are equally motivated to help all patrons. If you like the service, which we did, slip your assigned server a little more in cash. You will be appreciated and remembered. We sat at the bar and enjoyed being served by Jetho (I hope I spelled that correctly) - he was absolutely great and very friendly.

The ceveche at Fusions, which includes a dash of passion fruit juice to the normal prep, was delicious - possibly the best I've had north of the equator and the serving was HUGE. On what ended up being the first of three meals at Fusion, we split the rack of lamb. It was good, but not great. Did I mention the ceveche was amazing... :) On our next visit we got two orders of ceveche and shared the salmon dish, which was very good. On the third visit we again had two orders of ceveche and split the ten ounce sirloin. We come from steak country so are VERY particular about quality and prep, and we both thought it great - cooked perfectly with a slight char, but still medium rare, very favorable and very tender.

A couple we became friends with at Bucuti went to Fusion at least twice and ordered the special - huge rib-eye with two lobster tails and a bottle of wine. They loved it and said the lobster tails were sweet and excellent. That is a big vote of confidence since they come from U.S. lobster territory and the tails at Fusion are Caribbean lobster.

The mixed drinks at Fusion are also prepared with care - very talented mixologists. I also had an opportunity to talk with the chef who prepared our meals perfectly on the Green Egg cookers in front of the restaurant - you can see his...

The Babes and I wanted a nice dinner date and chose Fusion Wine bar for the place to stop. We set up a 5 pm reservation and got there about 10 minutes early and it wasn’t even opening till five so we killed a few minutes looking around at five walked up to the doors and a gentleman asked if he could help us. We said we had a 5 pm reservation and he said “ok, we are not quite open and maybe 5 more minutes. 15 minutes later they finally slid all the doors open so we walk up again and a young lady asked how she could help us and again, “we had a 5 pm reservation. She lets us choose our seat given the place was empty, brought us water and menus and let us do our pickings. Chantel was her name and she really was friendly and welcoming. I was doing my best to not be annoyed with taking a reservation and not even being able to open at that time. We ordered a bottle of sauv blanc that was a rather pricey for a New Zeland white wine at $66. The Babes ordered the wagyu burger, and I order the fish N’ chips. I will add the uniqueness of this FnC was superb, maybe the best I’be ever had and The Babes loved her burger. At the end we got our tab and noticed the gal forgot to add our wine, I was honest and told her and she promptly added the $66 doubling the tab. I was kinda hoping for a reduction for my honesty but whatever. If you want great food I do recommend Fusion. I personally just thought there system was off and for a place trying to come off as a hotspot hangout they need to be better on top in the performance. We sat at 5:15 for a 5 reservation and didn’t get our food till about 6 when we were the only ones in at the moment of ordering. And the wine charge is highly increased we saw 14 hands $45 bottle is a $20-$25 bottle retail and they wanted...

If you’re looking for a spot on the island for great atmosphere at any cost, this is the place to be. Sadly, that’s where the excitement ends. For $107, my wife and I got steaks that were the size of hockey pucks. I seriously wish I was embellishing that. Even funnier my steak was advertised as a 10 oz butcher cut but as soon as I ordered it I got told it’s 6 oz. Still got charged the full $38 that’s next to “10 oz” on the menu. So bad start with a bait and switch right away. I wanted a steak so I figured the taste would be impressive. Nope. For Americans, longhorn steakhouse blows these guys away just as a chain restaurant. The $12 salad bowl was regular sized and was good. The truffle mac and cheese was more Mac and cheese with white sauce on it. Not a lot of truffle. That was kind of the whole theme here: it’s near a casino and has atmosphere so we’re charging a lot but doing everything we can to save money. Even on this island where your average meal can easily be $100 for 2 people for a GOOD meal, this falls towards the bottom on that list. First meal in 5 days I was glad to be getting my money back via a tax deduction. We wanted to try the ice cream bucket but assumed we’d have to go dig the ice cream ourselves out of the freezer.

Waitress was quick and attentive. As others have mentioned, we were charged an 18% service charge and when we got to the tip, we got a new “ok we’re done” slam my card in the machine and a quick “bye” from the waitress. So, again gives the feel of “hurry get the customers money and give them our at best mid quality food, and get em out of here.”

Overall good place but has some silly off puts that are...