Restaurants

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.

The Hut, Little Jumby

North Coast

A beach club on its own tiny island, three minutes by free ferry from Barnacle Point. Seafood by the platter, rosé by the magnum, and a cabana on the sand until the boat back.

The Reef, Green Island

East Coast

Italian coastal cooking on Green Island, off the east coast — you arrive by boat or not at all. A short menu that changes with the day's catch, long lunches, and the reef right there in front of you.

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.

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.

Fat Urchid

Jolly Harbour

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.