When I was on Sosua Beach last weekend, I noticed a Jamaican restaurant/shack with jerk chicken and other Jamaican dishes. Is the food there any good?
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Jamaican Shack on Sosua Beach
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Maybe I'll open a conch shack with authentic Bahamian conch salad, I can't eat the vinegrette conch salad made here.
Taino, thanks for the recommendation. i myself have Jamaican roots, so i am familiar with Jamaican cooking. i stopped by the shack, but nothing was ready to be served. i myself have no intention of opening a joint, for the simple reason that i do not have sufficient funds. get me a backer, and watch sparks fly.
besides, Taino, i would not open a Jamaican restaurant. it would be a Caribbean Restaurant. Jamaican jerk meats and beef patties, Bahamian cracked conch, and conch chowder, Trinidadian roti, the Dominican bandera, Puerto Rican pernil, Cuban sandwiches, and mojitos, Red Stripe Beer, Guiness Stout Punch....you get my drift...a culinary panorama of the islands.
Well now that you've made my mouth water, I hope you actually open it:bunny:
I love PR pernil, but I've had some just as good, and sometimes better, from lechoneras around the SD area. The best, I think, was from a little place on a tiny street that someone sent us to in the Zona Colonial. We brought a tray to my suegra's house, and it did an instant disappearing act.
AE
Jamaican food is the best. I have always wanted to spend a month in negril learning how to cook . Unfortunately I was never able to organize it.
Jamaicans know spices...man I wish I did too.
yes, some great roast pork comes out of this island. however, reserve your judgement until you have tried pernil made with pepperoni stuffed into the slashes where you put the seasoning. a little something to make your mouth water.
Pepperoni....hmmm....interesting.....I already stick slices of garlic in there after the seasoning goes on.....I'll try the pepperoni!!!!!
AE
yacht chef, that is what i am talking about. a restaurant that serves stuff like that. jerk baby back ribs, and jerk lobster, are wonderful. this country really needs a good caribbean restaurant. after all, we are in the caribbean.
Then I think that you had better think Santo Domingo or Santiago, where you have a much larger population base and a taste for good food that is not dependent on which flight is on time or not...ie: Tourism....
Santiago has tons of restaurants, Nouveau Cuisine, Mexican, Chinese, Argentinian, US Fast Food (Barf barf!), Dominican Fast Food (greasy but yummy), Japanese, Italian, Tex-Mex, sea food, but nothing close to Caribbean....and it is a city where reggae is heard on the radio and in cars all the time. I really think it would be a hit.
Go for it, but in the right place. A shack on the beach won't make enough to justify it.
HB
Santiago has tons of restaurants, Nouveau Cuisine, Mexican, Chinese, Argentinian, US Fast Food (Barf barf!), Dominican Fast Food (greasy but yummy), Japanese, Italian, Tex-Mex, sea food, but nothing close to Caribbean....and it is a city where reggae is heard on the radio and in cars all the time. I really think it would be a hit.
Go for it, but in the right place. A shack on the beach won't make enough to justify it.
HB
Hillbilly, you make perfect sense. it would do well in either of those two cities. i can see Dominicans of all stripes coming in to get some conch soup and johnny cakes.
has anyone tried the Jamaican on Sosua beach already?
I do not know the Jamaican cuisine but I am sure that here on the North Coast, tourists AND ex-pats would welcome yet another cuisine. Not sure if many Dominicans would like it as I am told its quite spicy...yummie!
I do not know the Jamaican cuisine but I am sure that here on the North Coast, tourists AND ex-pats would welcome yet another cuisine. Not sure if many Dominicans would like it as I am told its quite spicy...yummie!
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