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OK, there MUST be some good Jamaican restaurants in Philadelphia. I will be staying in Center City and want to know of places to go for lunch and/or dinner. ??
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I'm guessing that you are correct and that there must be JA food in Phillie. I posted a long thread on places to eat Jamaican in downtown Toronto, here's the chance to do the same for PA. -
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Not really but it safe to say there might be at least one store still operating in West Philly.
You might want to go the Bronx this evening for dinner.Comment
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One of the best places to get good jamaican food here, outside of visiting a jamaican home (and there are some private jamaican homes that do open to the public and serve authentic meals for money), is to buy food from families selling meals from their cars and vans at night on the weekends, usually outside of jamaican nightclubs. Perhaps, if nothing else, there is something like that in Philadelphia.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gourmet</div><div class="ubbcode-body">One of the best places to get good jamaican food here, outside of visiting a jamaican home (and there are some private jamaican homes that do open to the public and serve authentic meals for money), is to buy food from families selling meals from their cars and vans at night on the weekends, usually outside of jamaican nightclubs. Perhaps, if nothing else, there is something like that in Philadelphia. </div></div>Home Cooked meals on wheels?
I have lived in Philly for a minute but the Jamaican Scene there was not very appealing, not much cultural offerings, you kinda get the feeling that there were only there because the rent was cheaper than NY and NJ.Comment
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Yeah, home-cooked meals on wheels for party animals. Some of the city's better joints, like Brendan's Roti, got their start selling roadside from a minivan.Comment
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you can try the reef down on south street or the jamaican jerk hut which is on south street to I think.Comment
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Wow.. this surprises me. I thought there would be a lot of options !?!Comment
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there are, loads of em, just not in center city
only two down there are the Jerk Hut - 1436 South St
and Caribbean Delight - 1124 South St. Both of these are propa sit-down restaurants with pretty good food. Jerk Hut has a real nice outdoor seating area around the back deck, with a huge herbs garden, it's nice vibes....
'South st' is about 6 blocks south of downtown center city, between 2nd and 10th is kinda of a partyish street, esp. in the summer, loads of shops, restaurants, clubs, art galleries. there's a coupla nice African stores, one fine art, two others with t-shirts, incense, craft-kinda jewelry, caribbean flags. also you can get those super nice shea butter & black soaps and lotions down there, Nubian Delight i think is the brand (?).
West Philly and Germantown is where you'll find all the yardies & trini's, and loads of little storefront jamaican and trini food spots. i can't even tell you most of them, but driving around you see all kinda JA and TnT flags out front all over the place - once you're outside of CC. loads in the Northeast too but that's like a whole separate city, i don't know up there atall atall!
don't know germantown so well, but i can tell you a few on the west philly side; don't know how adventurous you are but it's about 20 minutes drive straight west from CC. you can also get there on the Septa trolley (properly called the 'subway-surface' line).
--Studio 7 at 60th & Spruce - really a bar/club with kitchen in back, great takeout plates. little too heavy on the rice if ya ask me but they have great goat.
--Brown Sugar Bakery at 52nd Locust, both Trini & JA food, patties, bakery goods
--Caribbean Cuisine at 60th & Baltimore.
but IMHO the absolute BEST spot for jamaican food is <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Little Delicious</span></span>, at 48th and Woodland, in SW philly. ja food to die for..... ! and the SOUP, omg! (even tho they never have any callaloo)
the other day i was in there lookin in the cold case for peanut punch and started to be disappointed that there wasn't any... til i realized they was makin it fresh behind the counter.
Little Delicious
4821 Woodland Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19143
(215) 729-4911
Jamaican Jerk Hut
(215) 545-8644
1436 South St, Philadelphia, PA
Caribbean Delight
(215) 829-1030
1124 South St, Philadelphia, PA
Caribbean Cuisine
(215) 472-8553
6045 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19143
there's not much a that 'food vending outside a places' here except sometimes you can find "the doubles man" outside of Ibis Lounge, thats a Trini club (also in WestPhily, but on the north side at 54th & Lancaster). On 60th St. near Walnut is another Trini spot called Soca Village, they have cook food inside (good but not great) and in the summer you can find BBQ and jerk chicken out on 60th street sometimes too - but food in the street's not as common as it is in NYC.
if you'll be here over a weekend there's a real nice waterfront club down on the Delaware that does sunday 'reggae on the river' once it's warm. nice vibes there too!
oh, there's also a stooshy kinda Caribbean-style club, also down there in the South St. area. "The Reef Lounge"; 2nd & South. a little more upscale than the rest of the South st area, they have after-work buffet's, sometimes steelbands early in the evening, and it's a regular club w/DJ on weekends.
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Re: Jamaican food in Philly?
Thank you for the replies... I won't have a car whle visiting Philly, but I am a taxi ride away from some of the places outside of CC.
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