The food was good, but I had issues with their service. We used them to cater my brother’s repass, and there were two major problems:
They required the full payment in cash. We worked with a woman named Deesha who arranged the delivery to our venue. They demanded payment before delivering the food. $50 for 1 mile at that. The driver then refused to deliver it, sitting in the car instead, allowing the food to get cold. We explained that this was for a repass and that we were on our way from just burying our loved one. We wouldn't be at the venue to receive the delivery, but the venue was open and the food could have been left inside. We reiterated this multiple times, but the driver was rude, lacked compassion, and didn’t follow through on what was promised. It’s unfortunate that a place with good food can have such poor service.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 1
Raschid Pierce
So I went for lunch $18.54 for three pieces of chicken & rice. I asked for a small but she said only medium and large. She said it was a meal but charged me individually as you can see on the receipt. No cabbage or any other sides! My co worker was right besides me with another server who gave her a small plate for $9.84. Everytime I go here they charge me extra. It's not cool the place doesn't have alot of customers so they do funny stuff! I wouldn't recommend this place. The food is average sometimes the rice is dry. And the servers have attitudes.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
Melanie Birdsall
The rasta pasta , rice and cabbage was good. The oxtail was so tough I couldn’t eat it. And that’s a shame because oxtail is toooooo expensive for it to not be able to be eaten. The service was disappointing and given that it’s right on 125th st , you never know who is walking in your doors, The woman who served me was extremely rude. When I asked for information about the sizes and types of meals I could order with the Rasta pasta, she was short, unhelpful, and gave me no clear explanation. When I asked if I could add anything to the pasta, she got an attitude and told me that wasn’t part of the meal. Her disrespectful tone really soured the experience for me.
As a business owner myself, I understand the importance of good customer service. It's something this establishment definitely needs to work on. I won’t be returning and hope they take the time to train their staff on how to treat customers better—especially considering how quickly word spreads online.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
A. B.
Server was rude at the Harlem location and mocked my American accent after being a longtime supporter of both locations in the Bronx and Harlem. Very disappointed in the service.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Beryl Parchment
I got oxtail and the oxtail sauce was extremely "SALTY". LIGHTEN UP WITH THE SALT GUYS. Black and Brown people are salt sensitive: Hypertensive!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Rice & Peas, Rice and Peas
Guillermo A. Ovalle
Good soul food
NYCBuddha
A friend took me here as this is one of his go-to spots for Jamaican comfort food.
We ordered oxtails, jerk pork, and his favorite fall of the bone spicy baked chicken with steamed cabbage and chicken curry gravy on rice and rasta pasta.
Spot has a variety of delicious looking food. It's clean.and the service was good.
It's a grab and go spot. There are a few seats by the window.
We went on a Sunday at 3 pm and had a steady stream of people coming through.
The jerk pork is really good but very spicy for my palate.
The oxtails were solid
Steamed cabbage was good The spicy baked chicken was really good.
My buddy got then to pour chicken curry gravy on the rice. He loves that. The rasta pasta was really good but is spicy. It's creamy and deelish.
My buddy gave this spot a 5
I'm giving 4 as the spice level was too high for me and was restricted on size. The person who served us said you can only get a medium or large size.
I just wanted a small jerk potk but had to get a medium.
The total for 2 combo, a rasata pasta and jerk pork was around $69 and change. A combo was a rice, a vegetable and a meat. I think it was $18.
If you like spicy, this is definitely the spot.
I will go again and try other dishes. The seafood dishes looked good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Beltran D.R
Just found out about this spot and I have been going everyday specifically for the soup 🇯🇲
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Rice and Peas, Seafood Rice, Jerk Chicken
Emily Fisher
Food is seriously good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Fish
Chadwick
Exquisite food Huge portions I want the Stew!
Ate crab, rice n peas with stew gravy, a pineapple ginger juice, and some fried sweet plantain to finish it off. 😈
I have been to this place more than once and each visit is different depending on who’s serving you. Most of the woman in the back have a stink attitude. You can’t even ask for extra gravy on your rice without them giving you a nasty look. It’s funny because I am a woman and I’ve seen them give the men way more respect. They need to humble themselves because the food isn’t always on point.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Craig Gibbs
Very Poor customer service always has attitudes and don’t want to service your needs
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Jerk Chicken
Taina Martinez
I went in the restaurant while they had almost no food, the chicken was almost empty everything was out of meat, no Mac & cheese there was shrimp soup with no shrimp, only starch and veggies , I asked a woman employee to give me soup gravy and rice and she can up-charge me but I asked if she could NOT CHARGE me full price since there was JUST SOUP IN THE CHICKEN SOUP. There was no CORN and no CHICKEN in the soup. It was only carrots and 1 yam!
She could’ve made a consistent customer happy and had made some type of sale by accommodating a customer with a difference in an up charge but instead she refused sale when there was almost nothing to sell, which I didn’t understand why not do what is best for the business and best for your customers instead of what the regulations are?? If they obviously don’t apply at the moment when you don’t even have the full food service such as corn or chicken to make a soup chicken soup why not just sell it as is and make accommodations to sell it and get sales?? I felt like this was very stupid and complicated. And MONEY HUNGRY. I don’t feel like it’s completely the workers’s fault, but the workers should be educated on better service as I feel they continuously try to accommodate themselves and whatever they would like to do instead of accommodating the best services for their business. I’ve seen them higher and fire many, good people and lose many valuable customers due to their negligence. I wish this business. The best of luck. Their food is great but highly overpriced when they have rude employees, terrible service and every time you go there, you feel like you’re giving your money away by chance with no love fed back into your food while you’re being served.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Nancy Jordan
The Food and Team are AMAZING. The seafood rice😋Jerk Salmon AND Natural Juices… Just GO I wish this was a lounge!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Fish, Rice and Peas, Seafood
Tia Monterroso
ADDICTED to this spot!!! Their food is delicious 🤩
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Mac and Cheese
The food was good, but I had issues with their service. We used them to cater my brother’s repass, and there were two major problems:
They required the full payment in cash.
We worked with a woman named Deesha who arranged the delivery to our venue. They demanded payment before delivering the food. $50 for 1 mile at that. The driver then refused to deliver it, sitting in the car instead, allowing the food to get cold. We explained that this was for a repass and that we were on our way from just burying our loved one. We wouldn't be at the venue to receive the delivery, but the venue was open and the food could have been left inside. We reiterated this multiple times, but the driver was rude, lacked compassion, and didn’t follow through on what was promised.
It’s unfortunate that a place with good food can have such poor service.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 1
So I went for lunch $18.54 for three pieces of chicken & rice. I asked for a small but she said only medium and large. She said it was a meal but charged me individually as you can see on the receipt. No cabbage or any other sides!
My co worker was right besides me with another server who gave her a small plate for $9.84.
Everytime I go here they charge me extra. It's not cool the place doesn't have alot of customers so they do funny stuff! I wouldn't recommend this place. The food is average sometimes the rice is dry. And the servers have attitudes.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 3
The rasta pasta , rice and cabbage was good. The oxtail was so tough I couldn’t eat it. And that’s a shame because oxtail is toooooo expensive for it to not be able to be eaten. The service was disappointing and given that it’s right on 125th st , you never know who is walking in your doors, The woman who served me was extremely rude. When I asked for information about the sizes and types of meals I could order with the Rasta pasta, she was short, unhelpful, and gave me no clear explanation. When I asked if I could add anything to the pasta, she got an attitude and told me that wasn’t part of the meal. Her disrespectful tone really soured the experience for me.
As a business owner myself, I understand the importance of good customer service. It's something this establishment definitely needs to work on. I won’t be returning and hope they take the time to train their staff on how to treat customers better—especially considering how quickly word spreads online.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Server was rude at the Harlem location and mocked my American accent after being a longtime supporter of both locations in the Bronx and Harlem. Very disappointed in the service.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
I got oxtail and the oxtail sauce was extremely "SALTY". LIGHTEN UP WITH THE SALT GUYS. Black and Brown people are salt sensitive: Hypertensive!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Rice & Peas, Rice and Peas
Good soul food
A friend took me here as this is one of his go-to spots for Jamaican comfort food.
We ordered oxtails, jerk pork, and his favorite fall of the bone spicy baked chicken with steamed cabbage and chicken curry gravy on rice and rasta pasta.
Spot has a variety of delicious looking food. It's clean.and the service was good.
It's a grab and go spot. There are a few seats by the window.
We went on a Sunday at 3 pm and had a steady stream of people coming through.
The jerk pork is really good but very spicy for my palate.
The oxtails were solid
Steamed cabbage was good
The spicy baked chicken was really good.
My buddy got then to pour chicken curry gravy on the rice. He loves that. The rasta pasta was really good but is spicy. It's creamy and deelish.
My buddy gave this spot a 5
I'm giving 4 as the spice level was too high for me and was restricted on size. The person who served us said you can only get a medium or large size.
I just wanted a small jerk potk but had to get a medium.
The total for 2 combo, a rasata pasta and jerk pork was around $69 and change. A combo was a rice, a vegetable and a meat. I think it was $18.
If you like spicy, this is definitely the spot.
I will go again and try other dishes. The seafood dishes looked good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Just found out about this spot and I have been going everyday specifically for the soup 🇯🇲
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Rice and Peas, Seafood Rice, Jerk Chicken
Food is seriously good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Fish
Exquisite food
Huge portions
I want the Stew!
Ate crab, rice n peas with stew gravy, a pineapple ginger juice, and some fried sweet plantain to finish it off. 😈
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
I have been to this place more than once and each visit is different depending on who’s serving you. Most of the woman in the back have a stink attitude. You can’t even ask for extra gravy on your rice without them giving you a nasty look. It’s funny because I am a woman and I’ve seen them give the men way more respect. They need to humble themselves because the food isn’t always on point.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Very Poor customer service always has attitudes and don’t want to service your needs
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Jerk Chicken
I went in the restaurant while they had almost no food, the chicken was almost empty everything was out of meat, no Mac & cheese there was shrimp soup with no shrimp, only starch and veggies , I asked a woman employee to give me soup gravy and rice and she can up-charge me but I asked if she could NOT CHARGE me full price since there was JUST SOUP IN THE CHICKEN SOUP. There was no CORN and no CHICKEN in the soup. It was only carrots and 1 yam!
She could’ve made a consistent customer happy and had made some type of sale by accommodating a customer with a difference in an up charge but instead she refused sale when there was almost nothing to sell, which I didn’t understand why not do what is best for the business and best for your customers instead of what the regulations are?? If they obviously don’t apply at the moment when you don’t even have the full food service such as corn or chicken to make a soup chicken soup why not just sell it as is and make accommodations to sell it and get sales?? I felt like this was very stupid and complicated. And MONEY HUNGRY. I don’t feel like it’s completely the workers’s fault, but the workers should be educated on better service as I feel they continuously try to accommodate themselves and whatever they would like to do instead of accommodating the best services for their business. I’ve seen them higher and fire many, good people and lose many valuable customers due to their negligence. I wish this business. The best of luck. Their food is great but highly overpriced when they have rude employees, terrible service and every time you go there, you feel like you’re giving your money away by chance with no love fed back into your food while you’re being served.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
The Food and Team are AMAZING. The seafood rice😋Jerk Salmon AND Natural Juices… Just GO I wish this was a lounge!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Fish, Rice and Peas, Seafood
ADDICTED to this spot!!! Their food is delicious 🤩
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oxtail with Rice and Peas, Mac and Cheese
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