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Red Bones Blues Café (noon–11 p.m. Mon.–Fri., 6–11 p.m. Sat., bar menu continues till the last customer leaves) has great albeit pricey food (ranging from US$17 for linguine to US$50 for grilled lobster) and a nice ambience with regular low-key events like fashion shows, poetry readings, and cabaret performances on a cozy stage in the garden.
Fee Fee Fast Food (7 a.m.–6 p.m. Mon.–Sat., US$3.50–7) has Indian-Caribbean dishes like roti, curry chicken, and curry goat, with red pea soup with beef on Wednesdays and Saturdays, chicken or beef soup with pumpkin on other days. Oxtail and other chicken dishes are also available.
The Tea House (12-5 p.m. daily, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings 8:00pm-12:00 midnight By Reservation Only) benefits from a natural setting on the manicured grounds of Hope Gardens. Dishes vary from soup, roti and pastry puffed dumplings to jerk chicken linguine, fish and lobster (US$3-30).
Shanty Man (9 a.m.10 p.m Sun.Fri., US$25) serves his own rendition of ital food out of a little Rasta-colored restaurant along the road between Papine and the Cooperage, just before the turnoff up to Skyline Drive. The menu features items like tofu, pumpkin soup, rice ’n’ peas, and sautèed ackee with potato and carrot.
