Eat & Drink

The best way to find delicious, locally made, freshly cooked food is to go out and look for it! We have small food businesses with just one old table or only doing take-away and many of them are hard to find. But on Barbuda 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. There may also be a fund-raising breakfast or a fish fry at the weekend. There are often people barbecuing on the street and our lobster is cooked on open fires straight from the sea. Local specialities include deer meat, land turtle, seafood – like lobster, crab, conch; locally raised beef, lamb or goat, with side dishes of rice, fungi, or dumplings, especially yabba dumplings. Some foods are only available at certain times and so are harder to find. 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 you will love Barbuda. If you are just looking for a burger and fries or barbecued chicken, we are very good at that too.

There are one or two bakers and they open early for bun and bread, but these can also be bought in the shops. Some local veg and fruit is sold through the shops but most is imported and there are no markets at all on Barbuda.

Fresh fish and lobster depend on good weather and are often sold on the street out of a cool box, or look for Barbudan fishers and their boats at the Fisheries wharf, as the boats come in at around 2 – 4pm some days. There is no butcher (although Brad has a sign that says butcher) so all fresh, local meat is sold on the street from a table after slaughtering. Other meat is sold frozen in the shops.