Grenada Travel Guide

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Cuisine

Most hotels and restaurants offer international cuisine, serving a large variety of tropical fish and English, Continental, American and exotic West Indian food. Bars are stocked with the most popular wines and spirits, local beers and various brands of whisky, rum and brandy.

National specialties:
• Seafood, such as crabs and lambi (conchs).
• Calaloo (a leafy vegetable similar to spinach) soup.
• Oildown is the national dish consisting of stew made with salted meat, breadfruit, onion, celery, carrot, daheen (a root vegetable grown locally) and dumplings all slowly steamed in coconut milk until the liquid is absorbed.
• Rotis are curry-spiced wraps made from pastry or bread and filled with beef, chicken, or vegetables.
• Nutmeg ice cream.

National drinks:
• Rum is made locally using traditional methods.
• The local beer, Carib, is excellent.

Legal drinking age: 18.

Tipping: A 10% service charge is added by most hotels and restaurants. If no charge is added, it is customary to leave a 10% tip. There is also an 8% government tax to pay at hotels and restaurants.

Nightlife

Home to the vibrant calypso and reggae music, Grenada offers a good mix of local and international restaurants and bars. Many resorts provide night-time entertainment, such as discos, organized shows and cabarets. The Reno Cinema in St George (tel: 440 5368) hosts many multicultural events as well as showing films. The Grenadian Jazz Society holds concerts several times a year in a number of hotels. Carnival takes place in towns across Grenada in the second week of August.