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Mi Yard (located across from the Houseboat, tel. 876/957-4442, www.miyard.com) serves snack items like fish, egg, cheese, or ham and cheese sandwiches, as well as Jamaica's favorite starchy food snacks or accompaniments like plantain, festival, breadfruit, and bammy.
Canoe Beach Bar & Grill serves Jamaican favorites at reasonable prices.
Mary's Bay Restaurant & Boat Bar (tel. 876/957-0981 or 876/819-3005, 10 a.m.\10 p.m daily, US$3\25) serves a variety of seafood like grouper, mahimahi, tuna, and snapper. It is also the home of "the serious burger," a double patty layered with mushrooms and bacon.
Jus Natural Restaurant Seafood and Vegetarian (next to Xtabi, across from La Kaiser, tel. 876/957-0235, 8 a.m.\9 p.m daily, closed on Sundays in low season, US$6\30) serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner with items like calalloo or ackee omelettes and fresh juices. Vegetarian dishes and seafood items are served for lunch and dinner.
3 Dives Jerk Centre offers a quarter chicken with bread (US$3.50) or with rice and peas and vegetables (US$4.50), half chicken with rice and peas and veggies (US$8), steamed or curried shrimp (US$17), and grilled lobster (US$34). This is the place to get jerk on the West End.
Pushcart Restaurant and Rum Bar (3\10 p.m daily, US$9\16) serves entrèes including peppered shrimp, homemade jerk sausage, curry goat, and oxtail. Opened in early 2009, Pushcart brings a Jamaican street food experience to one of the West End's most exclusive accommodations enclaves.
Ras Rody (across from Tensing Pen, 10 a.m.\6 p.m) is an Ital food shop that specializes in soups, normally red pea soup (US$8\10) and other vegetarian specialties of the day.
The Health Shop (10 a.m.\6 p.m Mon.\Thurs., 10 a.m.\4:30 p.m Fri.) sells whole-wheat vegetarian patties, hearty juice blends, and other natural foods at local prices.
The Hungry Lion (West End, 4\10:30 p.m daily, closed in Oct., US$8\24), under the ownership of Bertram Saulter, who also owns The Caves, is an excellent dinner spot with healthy-sized entrèes. The lobster burritos are delicious. A pleasant atmosphere is created with irie music, carved faces, and mellow tones covering the walls.
Royal Kitchen (opens 8 a.m.\11 p.m daily, US$3\5) is one of the best spots in Negril for Ital vegetarian food, prepared Rasta style with excellent fresh juices to accompany the meal.
