🛍️ Grenada: souvenirs
Grenada is the Spice Isle and shops like it - nutmeg in everything, chocolate that wins awards and rum from 18th-century stills. Here is what travellers bring home from Grenada, where the good versions live, and the export questions worth a look - alongside our 33 written places.
🛒 The classic buys
Nutmeg and mace
The national crop - buy whole nuts, syrup, jam and even nutmeg ice-cream fixings; the cooperative stations in Gouyave sell at source.
Grenada chocolate
Tree-to-bar pioneers work island cacao - dark bars travel well and the origin story is genuine.
River Antoine and local rum
River's still runs on a waterwheel as it has since 1785 - the overproof is a legend; note airlines cap alcohol strength, so buy the lower-proof export bottling to fly.
Spice necklaces and baskets
Strung nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon - the market square in St George's is full of them.
Batik and island art
Studios and galleries around St George's - bright work by resident artists.
⚠️ Check before you buy
- Overproof rum above 70% alcohol cannot fly in luggage - buy the export strength.
- Check what your home country lets in for plant products - dried spices usually pass.
✗ Better left behind
- Coral and turtle-shell items - protected.
- Spice packets of unclear age in souvenir shops - the market's fresh stock is better and cheaper.
Markets shift, workshops close and open, and the best souvenir is still the one with a story you were there for. Buy from makers where you can, keep receipts for anything substantial, and when a deal feels too good, it usually is.