Shirley Heights Lookout Restaurant

Antigua


Feast on jerk chicken, Creole fish or lobster salad while taking in splendid views of English Harbour from this hilltop restaurant in the restored stone guardhouse of this colonial military lookout and gun battery. On clear days, Guadeloupe and Montserrat loom in the misty distance. On Sunday afternoon it hosts an immensely popular barbecue with live steel and reggae bands.


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