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The Blind Pig

Chip McCabe

Can a place be totally “foody” and not pretentious? Can pizza be something more than pizza? Can a blind pig find its way to the trough? The answer to all of those questions is yes*. The Blind [...]

Chips, dips, and all the fancy, tiny tacos you can eat. Located in the old Hot Tomato’s location at 1 Union Place, Chango Rosa is carving up the smoked meats of the wildly popular Bear’s Smokehouse and fusing them with [...]

Jerk Pit Café

Chip McCabe

Are you ready for the jerk experience of a lifetime? Mosey on down Main Street until you see the pillar of billowing smoke — this is the glorious Jerk Pit Café, where meats come to be jerked and mouths come to [...]

Scott’s Jamaican Bakery

Chip McCabe

Behold the beguiling beauty of the simple Jamaican meat pie. With a flaky goldenrod exterior providing balance to the flavor explosion inside, has there ever been a more perfect foodstuff? Funny, that rumble in your tummy sounds a lot like the word “Scott’s.” Good [...]

Destiny Awaits Restaurant & Jerk Center

Chip McCabe

Your destiny awaits at Destiny Awaits Restaurant & Jerk Center. That is, if your destiny includes steaming beef patties and tender oxtail swimming in deep, luscious broth. Yet the real stars of this place can’t be found on the menu. Quality staff gives [...]

Dunn’s River Restaurant

Chip McCabe

From the mural of natural scenery on the wall, to the wooden placemats on the tables, nowhere in Hartford gives off the ambiance of an island quite like Dunn’s. Their offerings span the menu of Jamaican cuisine, from ackee to oxtail, and [...]

Lion’s Den Vegetarian Restaurant

Chip McCabe

Yes, it’s vegetarian food — a common cuisine in Jamaica — but this is one vegetarian restaurant where it’s difficult to miss the meat. Traditional dishes like curried chunks, ital stew, and ackee with saltfish delight and surprise with layers of flavor and texture. Be [...]

Island Cuisine

Chip McCabe

Tucked away in a strip mall on Farmington Ave lies Island Cuisine, a bustling little Jamaican eatery. Be warned: there’s no seating and minimal parking, but the near-perfect jerk seasoning (available on chicken or, on the weekends, pork) and plantains [...]

Sun Splash Jamaican Restaurant

Chip McCabe

Tucked away in a mini plaza alongside Maple Giant Grinder, Sun Splash is your typical Jamaican joint — a takeout-only, menus-on-the-wall, in-and-out kind of place. There’s barely room to sit, let alone bring a friend. Yet their oxtail is, and I quote, “FIRE” (Jessica [...]

USS Chowder Pot IV

Chip McCabe

USS Chowder Pot IV has been open for over twenty years serving the freshest seafood, live Maine lobsters and delicious prime rib. They are conveniently located off of route 91 and unlike a lot of restaurants we have the ability [...]

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