Restaurants specialise in West Indian, Creole, Continental, Indian, Chinese and French cuisine. Most restaurants in St Kitts offer a continental menu with island variations. Local dishes include roast suckling pig, spiny lobster, crab back and curries. Christophine, yams, breadfruit and papaya are also served. Nevis is less grand and Charlestown's small restaurants cater more to Nevisians than visitors.
Local specialities are native vegetable soup, lobster, mutton and beef.
Fruit, including mangoes, papayas and bananas, is sold at the waterfront market. A wide range of imported drinks is available. Very low key. A number of hotels and inns have string or steel bands to dance to on Saturday nights in the peak season, and there is a disco called J's Place at the foot of the Brimstone Hill Fortress in St Kitts. Reflections Night Club, also in St Kitts, is open until the small hours.