Food & Drink

Antigua and Barbuda has some superb seafood, including lobster and red snapper. The national dish is fungie (pronounced foon-gee) and pepper pot. Fungie is a dish very similar to the Italian polenta being made mainly of cornmeal. Other local dishes include ducana, season rice, saltfish and lobster (from Barbuda). There are also local confectionaries which include raspberry and tamarind stew, sugarcake, fudge and peanut brittle.

The local diet has diversified and now includes the local dishes of Jamaica (such as jerk pork), Guyana (for example, roti) and other Caribbean countries. Chinese restaurants have also begun to become more mainstream.

Local drinks include coconut milk, ice-cold fruit juices (such as raspberry, tamarind or mango) and rum punches. There are no licensing restrictions.