From the beginning

Karakter is born and raised on Sint Maarten. The idea for a Caribbean beach bar focusing on quality and service where the guest is leading came in 2006.

Karakter has been operating since June 2008. The creators (Jorrit Heekelaar and Marleen Gerritsen) had the dream to start a beach bar and restaurant in the Caribbean and they choose Simpson Bay Beach on Sint Maarten to realize this dream.

With a minimum of funds they bought an old school bus on the island, converted this into a bar/kitchen and they leased an abandoned beachfront property. This is a short version of a very long process, but, with a lot of hard work and patience, Karakter opened its “bus windows” on June, 11th 2008.

Started small but still growing

From a very small company with just the owners as employees, Karakter grew in three years time, into a full service beach bar and restaurant. Having a lot of French customers from French St Martin, Karakter is very much influenced by a french touch.

The success of a relative simple Caribbean beach bar, but with high service standards and high quality food turned out to be the right choice. So why shouldn’t we create more of these places?

Second location: Curaçao

Curacao became Karakter’s second location. Karakter is always located on unique, quiet and beautiful locations, where no other restaurants are situated. Coral Estate is definitely a location which meets these criteria.

Karakter is up and running on Curacao since april 2012 and has become one of Curacao’s leading beach restaurants…