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Musiq (72 Gloucester Ave., 5 p.m\1 a.m. daily) was opened in July 2009 by Pork Pit owner Uhma Williams as a musically focused bar located next door to her original establishment. The bar features an in-house DJ from Thursday to Sunday playing R&B, hip-hop, reggae, and dancehall.
Dragon Lounge (Whitehouse, tel. 876/952-1578, 7 a.m.\11 p.m daily, US$8.50\14), run by Sebil and Peter Tebert, serves excellent seafood dishes, including shrimp, conch, and lobster, in a gritty and rootsy Jamaican bar environment with a dining room out back by the kitchen.
Adwa Nutrition for Life is the best place in town for natural food. It has three locations, including one full-service, sit-down restaurant (Shops #158\160, City Center, tel. 876/940-7618) and two stores (Shop #7, West F&S Complex, 29\31 Union St., tel. 876/952-2161; and Shop #2, West Gate Plaza, tel.
Ruby Restaurant (Shop #3, Westgate Shopping Centre, tel. 876/952-3199, 8 a.m.\8:30 p.m Mon.\Sat., US$3.50\11) has Jamaican breakfast dishes like callaloo and codfish, ackee and saltfish, kidney and onion, and brown stew chicken, as well as more international standards like eggs and bacon, French toast, and ham and bacon omelettes.
Mobay Proper, (44 Fort St., tel. 876/940-1233, noon\2 a.m. daily, US$3.50\14) is the in spot for Mobay's party-hearty youth and fashionable businesspeople alike. The food is excellent and a great value, with dishes like fried or jerk chicken, fish done to order, curry goat, roast beef, and steamed, escovitch, or brown stew fish.
The Pelican (7 a.m.-11 p.m daily, US$10-40) serves a mix of local and international dishes at international prices. Jamaican favorites like stewed peas (US$8), curry goat (US$12), steamed or brown stew fish (US$11), and lobster (US$40) complement international staples like cordon bleu (US$17) and hamburgers (US$9).
The Montego Bay Yacht Club (Freeport, tel. 876/979-8038, 10 a.m.\10 p.m daily, US$6\25) has a good menu with burgers, sandwiches, salads, and entrèes like lobster and shrimp thermidor, snapper, lamb chops, seafood pasta, coconut curry chicken, and zucchini pasta in a pleasant waterfront setting. A popular buffet dinner (US$14) with a rotating menu is served on Fridays.
Scotchie's (11 a.m.\11 p.m daily, US$4\11) is easily the best jerk in Jamaica, serving pork, chicken, and steamed fish. Sides include breadfruit, festival, and yam. Scotchie's was forced to move back from the expanded highway and took the opportunity to redesign the dining area, adding a nice bar in the open-air courtyard.
The Pork Pit (27 Gloucester Ave., tel. 876/940-3008, US$5\11) has jerk by the pound: pork, chicken, ribs, and shrimp.
Jerky's (29 Alice Eldemire Dr., tel. 876/684-9101 or 876/684-9102, 11 a.m.\midnight Sun.\Fri., open later on Sat. for karaoke, US$3\10) has jerk chicken, steamed fish, escovitch fish, ribs, conch, shrimp, and fried fish. There is a large bar where a beer costs US$1.75.
