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| - The reviews are generally accurate for this place.
While it's true that the prices are a tad high for the portion sizes, they aren't unreasonable. It certainly wasn't bad enough for me to come three times to eat. But they are prices that the market will bear -- when there's as many Jamaican restaurants as there are, say, Chinese, I'm sure the prices will go down. The dinner plates were a bit big. The lunch plates were a bit small (on the meat -- a bit too much rice and beans).
Some of the female servers who work here can be unfriendly and give poor service. Most of the people who work here suffer from the same turtle-like slowness and lackadaisical way of serving customers that plague many Jamaican restaurants. Watching these people is like watching molasses flow in January.
I wish they took credit cards.
Reading through the other reviews, I gather the vegetarian fare (which I have not tried for the most part) is not very good.
There's wifi here, but I don't know if it's for the public. I forgot to ask when I was there last.
Spicy Beef Patty: A
It was spicy, but not overly so. The Beef Patties I used to get in Brooklyn were 3-alarm fire spicy. These were maybe a fifth as spicy as those. I think most people would be a little disappointed with these patties -- mine was definitely over-cooked. The inside meat was dried out near the edge of the patties. I'm a weirdo because I *like* it that way. Most people won't, I suspect. You typically eat these things like a sandwich in coco bread. At home, the coco bread was necessary because the patty was so damned spicy. Here, the coco bread is not only unnecessary, but kind of a waste; the patties are just not spicy enough to warrant the coco bread.
Coco Bread: B-
A bit more like regular bread than the coco bread I get back home. It had good flavor, but a tad plain.
Ox tail: A+
My favorite dish here. I saw another reviewer agree with this sentiment. Hands down, the juiciest most flavorful dish I've had here. If you come here once, this is what I'd recommend, not the jerk chicken. Lots of oily delicious sauce that you'd love to soak up with rice and beans.
Jerk Chicken: B
The menu boasts that this is their best dish. Their menu is very wrong! The oxtail is much better. I agree with one of the other reviewers: the jerk chicken is mediocre. Not great. Not bad. It's definitely good. Nicely cooked, but it could stand to have a little sauce; maybe a bit more juicy would be nice.
Appetizer
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Festival: A-
Listed as an appetizer, this is actually a dessert. It's like fried cornbread with lemon flavoring. Tough chewy outside, soft lemony starchy inside. A hint of sweetness. It would be GREAT with tea or coffee. I'm thinking of having this for breakfast tomorrow. I'd eat it for a dessert, not an appetizer.
Callaloo: A-
Like collard greens or kale or spinach. Delicious flavor. My only gripe is that the cook should have peeled the outside of the stem a bit more carefully because sometimes you'll take a bite of something that can't be chewed, so you have to spit it out. Note to vegetarians: You will want to ask how this is cooked; I'm guessing it gets cooked in beef broth.
Rice and Peas: B-
As a previous reviewer said, a bit dry. Otherwise, pretty good. I'd definitely order this if you get the ox-tail since the ox-tail has lots of sauce that compliments the rice and beans well. If you get the jerk chicken, the rice and beans are kind of a waste.
Dessert
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Rum Cake: A-
I loved it, but I'm guessing many people won't. It's only slightly sweet, with a hint of rum. Don't think of Jewish rum cake that is soaked and saturated with rum. This is much more subtle. Very dense and thick. Icing is also subtle; not super sweet.
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