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| - Just finished eating a large order of Jerk Chicken and Jerk Pork shared between the wife and I. We were deeply disappointed with the flavours. After reading the reviews on here we were stoked - being lovers of Jamaican food for years. In the end, what we thought would be phenomenal was just 'whatever'. This leads me to ask the question, what the hell were all these reviewers going on and on about? Seriously, I have been to countless Jamaican/West-Indian joints for Jerk, Roti, Curry, etc, and this place DID NOT stand head and shoulders above all the rest. In the pool of Caribbean restaurants, this joint AT BEST is 3/5. For reasons on WHY, read on.
Why, contrary to other reviewers, I found this place to be an average 3/5 stars:
1) They charge you almost a full dollar for gravy on your meal - 0.95 cents to be exact. This is just unheard of. I've been to Ritz's on Yonge, Cravin's, Mr. Jerk, Tastees, Caribbean Wave, and countless other restaurants along Eglinton Ave West (btwn oakwood and Allen) and I have never been charged for asking for gravy on my order. To add insult to injury, the amount of gravy given was ridiculous and the rice and peas still tasted dry - now I know why one reviewer recommended the gravy. THIS IS A HUGE MINUS 1 star.
2) The food can be evaluated in components:
a) Jerk Chicken - they serve more of a dry jerk chicken; the flavour is on the outer skin of the meat and the marinade didn't really penetrate the meat on the inside; the flavour was subtle and you have to almost think about it in the after-taste to actually process the taste. Better at so many other joints than this place.
b) Jerk Pork - not bad...a bit on the dry side...nothing spectacular or praise worthy - in fact, if they couldn't do at least this much, I'd have deducted another star.
c) Coleslaw - again, disappointing. Lacked a cohesive flavour. Good coleslaw allows the cabbage to soak up the other ingredients and become one in flavour...the coleslaw here tasted like the cabbage and the mayo had a fight and were trying to make the best of a relationship headed for disaster. I tasted grated cabbage that was wearing mayo; it wasn't 'coleslaw'.
d) Rice and peas - good in terms of texture and firmness/softness, but again, it's freaking rice and peas man...if you can't make this to at least this level, you are not doing it right.
Overall, I think the people who buy from this place and put up these HIGH reviews are either: 1) ignorant of what really great west-indian/jamaican food is supposed to taste like or 2) they are related to the ownership/management of the restaurant. ;-)
Recommendation: Go if there is nowhere else for you to go. But, I will not say this place is heavely, devine or magnificant. Why? Because it's not. I won't follow the rest when the rest obviously don't know what they are talking about. Personally, this place is easily forgotten and makes me think the reviewers of ajax west indian food really need to travel into the GTA core to sample what is probably a closer representation of the true flavours of west indies.
Peace.
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