
Probably the best known of Barbuda's restaurants and bars, this is being renovated, will look completely different and should be open very soon! Uncle Roddy's is located right on the beach at Coral Group bay on Barbuda, next to Barbuda Cottages.


Street food is very good on Barbuda. At school just before break-time you can buy delicious home-made snacks like bread pudding, roti, meatballs, fried chicken and meat or vegetable patties. There may be fried fish and johnny cakes outside Canutes old shop on a Friday or Saturday lunchtime, or at Charm Charles on the main road. If you are cooking; local meat (mainly pork or beef) is sometimes sold from a table in the village, is much cheaper and better quality than the imported frozen meat, and sells out fast. If you are looking for Barbudan goat, lamb or deer meat you can often only buy from people you know. Fresh fish is often sold out of a cool box or barrow carried around the village but DO NOT BUY undersize or prohibited fish, conchs or lobster, and conchs or lobster out of season. There is a council vegetable 'market' but this is only open when there is produce to sell, which is not every day.


We make our own fruit punches and other local drinks like ginger beer, soursop and passion fruit and there is sometimes fresh coconut water to buy. The bars serve local beers - Wadadali and Carib - as well as Heineken or whatever else is available.
Antigua produces its own rums - Cavalier and English Harbour, and you can buy wine and some mixed drinks or cocktails in the village at Timbuk, Green Door, Buzz, Black Swan Sports Bar, Extra Man and Lyntons Chill Spot for about a quarter of the price of one in a hotel. The ArtCafe does cocktail happy hours on some Friday evenings 7 - 9pm and Caribbean rum tasting evenings if you want to learn more about the making and blending of Caribbean rums.