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Catherine's Café Plage
English Harbour
French cooking with your feet more or less in the sand, on Pigeon Beach at the mouth of Falmouth Harbour. Long lunches, rosé, and yachts on the water in front of you.
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Nelson's Dockyard
English Harbour
A Georgian naval dockyard that never became a museum piece: the eighteenth-century stone buildings around the quay still serve the yachts moored against it. It is the centre of Antigua's UNESCO World Heritage site, and you can walk the whole of it.
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Sheer Rocks
West Coast
Built into the cliff above Ffryes on the west coast, with the tables stepped down towards the water. Small plates and seafood, and the sunset does half the work.
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Shirley Heights
English Harbour
The ridge of old gun batteries above English Harbour, and the view that ends up on most photographs of Antigua: both harbours below you at once, full of masts. Go towards the end of the day, when the light comes across the water.
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Ana's on the Beach
North Coast
White rooms opening straight onto the sand on Fort Road, north of the capital. Mediterranean cooking, art on the walls, and lunch that tends to run into the afternoon.
Betty's Hope
East Coast
Two stone windmill towers standing in open grass, one of them restored with its sails back on. This was one of the island's first large sugar estates, and the site is now a museum of what that industry was and who it was built on.
Cloggy's
English Harbour
Upstairs at the Antigua Yacht Club in Falmouth, on a deck that looks straight down the masts. The kind of place that fills up with whoever has just come off a boat.
Devil's Bridge
East Coast
A natural limestone arch on the Atlantic headland at Indian Town Point, cut out by the swell over a very long time. The sea drives through the gaps and blows back out of them, which is the reason to come and also the reason to keep well back from the edge.
Fig Tree Drive
West Coast
The one properly green road on a dry island: a narrow lane through the hills of Saint Mary, under mango and banana, with fruit stalls at the turns and a zip-line strung across the ravine.
Great Bird Island
East Coast
An uninhabited island off the north-east coast, reached by boat, with a small beach, a short climb to the cliffs and reef in the shallows on the way. It sits inside the protected area that shelters the North Sound islands.
Le Bistro
North Coast
One of the island's oldest restaurants, tucked into a garden at Hodges Bay on the north coast. Classic French, indoors, away from the sea — the one to book when the wind is up.
Pillars Restaurant
English Harbour
Inside the eighteenth-century fort above Fort James beach, with the tables under the trees on the old rampart. Worth it for the setting and the view back over the bay.
Stingray City
East Coast
A shallow sandbar off Seatons on the east coast where southern stingrays gather and you can stand chest-deep among them with a guide. Half a day, and the only one of these outings that works equally well for children.
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