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?
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.
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
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.
Don't forget baby back ribs and joney cakes from st marten.
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