Caribbean Kitchen Bar & Grill

Top notch Brown stew and jerk chicken. Open all week later than most. These are great people with great food!

This hidden jewel is a total surprise. Don’t judge a book or a restaurant by its cover! This place has very tasty curry goat, whole red snapper (which is hard to find at other Jamaican places) and the best beef Patties in town! My husband is addicted to them! Give them a try. The restaurant is clean and friendly!

Out on a Friday evening looking for Caribbean cuisine we check out this place. Before we even get into the parking lot we hear the reggae playing outside. Immediately I assumed dancehall party but it was empty. No problem me and my hubs walk in we were greeted and seated in about 2 seconds of walking in. I love fast service. We sit down to order oxtail and curry goat roti(super SPICY). The Oxtails were delicious they were tender and falling off the bone. But the curry roti will send you to the hospital if you can’t handle spicy food. All in all it was a good experience. But I will never order roti again!!

I was enthusiastic about tasting the food since I’ve limited where I eat during the pandemic.

I gave it a 4/5 because two family members enjoyed their food- the shrimp roti and the curried chicken.

I got to taste their food and wasn’t impressed. There were uncooked grains of rice; the beans were a bit too hard, the chicken was dry, the fish tough, and had too much seasoning to make out the taste of fish; the roti was filling was unusual for me since, in the Caribbean, the usual stuffing is boiled potatoes, meat, and the curried seasoning. Plus some flour to thicken the curry sauce. Beware if you’ve not traveled to the Caribbean and had chicken roti. Their chicken is not deboned for the roti.

The seasoning had too much nutmeg in them. Therefore, the dishes tasted more or less the same - jerk seasoning with an exceptionally overpowering nutmeg amount.

The plantains had not reached the perfect overall level of ripeness. The center was a bit hard.

I can say that the oxtail was decent, 8/10. The seasoning clung to the meat. That a plus and a negative. Plus, it was pleasantly flavorful, but hard to get any of that seasoning/gravy on the rice.

Their restaurant brand of hot sauce is delicious. I prefer it a bit thick, but that’s no reflection on the flavor.

I plan on going back. I’ll update this post if not create a new one. Sometimes life happens that the food doesn’t taste 💯.

Regarding the “ratchet” reviews- the portions are perfect. There’s food enough to save for the next day.

Pandemic Alert- Common sense informs the logical person to use the drive-thru for pickup during a pandemic. It’s called risk reduction. I went to Red Lobster in Douglasville and it was begging people to catch COVID on site.