Eat & Drink
We have a lot of very small food businesses in Codrington village and some bigger ones on the beach on the South coast. Uncle Roddy’s, Nobu and Shaka Kai are all on this beach with great views and delicious fresh food. We are sometimes part-time, selling from home with just one table or only doing take-away, while others have full menus and serve food all day. They can be hard to find but ask any Barbudan and you will get directions. You can get anything from a ‘local lunch’ to fresh cooked fish, to a $10ec pizza, to Nobu sushi here on Barbuda.
In the village you can buy food and take it to a bar, and you can buy beer and take it to a food outlet – no one objects and some places do both. There may also be a before-church fund-raising breakfast or a fish fry at the weekend. There are often people barbecuing such as Wanda’s Grill and you will see young fishers cooking lobster on open fires straight from the sea. Look for boats at the Fisheries wharf, as they come in at different times – often around 2 – 4pm on good weather days. There is no butcher so all fresh, local meat is still sold on the street from a table after slaughtering or just by word of mouth and other imported meat is sold frozen in the shops. Local specialities include deer meat, land turtle; seafood – like lobster, crab, conch; locally raised beef, lamb or goat, with side dishes of rice, fungi, ground provisions, or dumplings – especially yabba dumplings. Some foods are only available at certain times and so are harder to find – or you can ask a local cook to prepare something for you.
Drinks include soursop, ginger beer, passion fruit, sea moss, tamarind and other local juices. If you are a foodie looking for souvenirs you will love the ArtCafe for fresh local produce especially fish and vegetarian food, served in a stylish but small art gallery and bar on the road to Two Foot Bay. If you are just looking for a burger and fries, pizza or barbecued chicken, we are good at that too and you will have no problem finding this in Codrington.
There are one or two bakers and they open very early for bun and bread, but these can also be bought in the shops. Some local veg and fruit is sold through the shops and Lil Lincs, Cheryls or Follow the Flag (Tyrene) are great for this when the boat comes in. There are no markets at all on Barbuda.
