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| - I don't see the hype surrounding this place. My friends and coworkers are obsessed so I've had both the lunch and dinner menu and I'm sorry to say the emperor has no clothes. I'm not a picky eater and don't expect perfection, just better than what I'm going to do at home if I'm paying $15+ a dish.
For lunch I had the jerk curry chicken bowl. I am a huge curried chicken fan, being of West Indian descent, so I was excited to try this dish. The curry didn't taste like much of anything and the boneless chicken was overcooked and tough. If you make your curried chicken right, the meat should be very tender and infused with the curry flavors.
The night after a different group wanted to go for dinner. We had the plantain app, it had chunks of salt in the sauce that took away from the flavor of the cooked plantain. I shared the garlic chicken on bowties pasta, cornbread, and Mac and cheese with ruffle oil, bacon, and mushroom w my friend. Again, the chicken was tough, though this sauce ok. The cornbread was inedible! Omg I don't even know how it was made to taste like that but it was not good. The mac and cheese, which is a side, was better than the main dish but not a reason for me to return. We also had the red velvet cake which was very pretty to look at but dry AND turned our tongues/mouths red after a few bites from the dye used - I know that's how the red coloration is obtained but I've never been dyed by this type of cake before.
Overall it's a cute place to go for people watching and a drink (I didn't have any but again friends raved) but I will not be returning anytime soon nor will I bring visitors. I'll go if friends want to go and hopefully will find a well made dish worth the $14-$22 (not bad if it was good) but otherwise I will be avoiding this place. I'm very surprised at the food quality here because so many picky people I know love it.. Maybe DW is banking on the majority of people not being familiar with Caribbean cooking and therefore able to get away with mediocre efforts but if you are then you will quickly see through the smoke (of the kitchen?! JK!).
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