FOOD & DINING IN GHANA

International food is available in most large hotels and many restaurants serve a range of local traditional foods. In Accra there are also restaurants serving Middle Eastern, Chinese, French and other European cuisine.

National specialties

• Kenkey, hot peppers and fried fish, eaten mostly in the Accra region.

• On the coast, prawns and other seafood are popular.

• Akyeke, cassava couscous served with avocado.

• Fufu, pounded cassava beans, yam, plantain or rice, usually accompanies traditional soups (palmnut, groundnut), Kontomere and Okro (stews).

• Fante fante, popular in the central regions is a palm oil stew with small fish.

• Akrantee, bushmeat.

• Green snails.

• Nkontomire, yam leaf soup.

National drinks

• Pito is a beer brewed in the Northern region made from millet.

• Zom koom, toasted millet flour in water.

• Palm wine.

• Coconut juice.

PLACES TO DINE

Tandoor Indian Restaurant 659/1 Angola Street, Behind State House, Osu, Accra Tel: (233-21) 778760 Email: tandoorgh@yahoo.com

Yan Can Cook 55B Avenor Link, North Ind. Area, Accra Tel: (233-24) 360395 Fax: (233-21) 779675

Le Bouquet Off Ring Road, Osu, Accra Tel: (233-21) 772417 Fax: (233-21) 761458

La Chaumiere Restaurant P.O. Box C2281, Cantonments, Accra Tel: (233-21) 772408 / 772970 Fax: (233-21) 772970

Ristorante Primavera Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra Tel: (233-21) 772501

Hinlone Labone, Accra Tel: (233-21) 772782 Fax: (233-21) 776554

Beverly Hills Asylum Down, Accra Tel: (233-21) 224042

Diplomat Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra Tel: (233-21) 772501

Elbis Restaurant 56/4 South Liberia Road, Tudu, Accra Tel: (233-22) 2718

Makaira North Labone, Accra Tel: (233-21) 778266

Club 400 Ringway estates, Osu, Accra Tel: (233-21) 223723

Tropicana Sunrise Hotel, North Ridge, Accra Tel: (233-21) 222201

Sole Mio Ristorante P.O.Box 14992, Osu, Tel: (233-21) 784015