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| - I happened to be in the University area recently around lunch time, so I quickly checked my Yelp App to see what dining options were nearby. I found this place and decided to check it out. When I pulled up in the parking lot, I had a bit of a dilemma as there was a Middle Eastern place right next door... but I decided to check out the Caribbean Hut since I have great Middle Eastern food in my neighborhood but no Caribbean/Jamaican places.
So, I walked in and found that this place is one of those spots where you go up and place your order at the counter. I quickly scanned the menu board and decided to go with jerk chicken. I asked and the girl behind the counter & she said it was served with beans & rice. Ok - sounds good so far. I wasn't sure about portion sizes, but I decided to go with the smaller portion size.
When my food came out, I was disappointed to see three little tiny pieces of chicken (which were mostly bone), rice with only a couple of sparse beans mixed into the rice, and about half the plate was made up of some sort of slaw (WTH- she didn't tell me slaw came on the plate! I hate slaw, yuck!) It did have 2 slices of plantains, which were tasty.
When I dug into it, things didn't really get any better. The jerk chicken was not very delicious - I was quite disappointed in both the subdued flavor and the terrible cut of "meat"...it was like 3 little chicken wings that hardly had any meat whatsoever on it. Definitely not what I was expecting.
I was expecting to dig into a plate of wonderful calypso rice with beans & a flavorful jerk chicken with plenty of spicy flavor. But this was just sad. Based on the other reviews, maybe I just caught them on a bad day, but the experience was so disappointing that I probably won't be back.
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