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.

Things to know: On the coast, prawns and other seafood are popular and very tasty.

National specialties:
• Kenkey (hot peppers and fried fish, eaten mostly in the Accra region).
• Akyeke (cassava couscous served with avocado).
• Fufu (pounded cassava beans, yam, plantain or rice, usually accompanying traditional soups (palmnut, groundnut), kontomere and okro (stews)).
• Fante fante (a palm oil stew with small fish, popular in the central regions).
• Akrantee (bushmeat).

National drinks:
• Pito (a beer brewed in the Northern region made from millet).
• Zom koom (toasted millet flour in water).
• Palm wine.
• Coconut juice.

Legal drinking age: 18.

Tipping: Tipping is permitted; it is not usually included in the bill.


Nightlife
In Accra and other major centers, there are nightclubs with Western popular music and Afro beat. Concerts can be seen at the National Theater in Accra. The School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon often hosts drama, poetry and cultural dancing shows. Foreign and Ghanaian films can be seen at the Ghana Film Theater and Executive Film House in Accra.