Caribbean Dutch Pot Restaurant & Groceries

Sadly it is not very good. I was excited when I found this place thinking I would be able to get some good Jamaican food. This is not the case. Both the ox tails and the jerk chicken were flavorless. Too bad we cold use a good Jamaican restaurant in town. We have not had one since Taste of Jamaica years ago.

Caribbean Dutch Pot Restaurant & Groceries was formerly V& M Caribbean Market & Restaurant

It's a hole in the wall; basically a take out jerk food joint with little if anything in the line of groceries except for some spices, cheap rice and some canned goods.

There are a couple of tables at which you can sit down and eat. The counter clerk will bring your food in a take out container along with a paper napkin and a plastic fork to on a tray your table; if she isn't too busy talking or otherwise texting on her cell phone.

Upon entry I was politely greeted by the counter clerk who was seated at a table talking on her cell phone with a polite "Wha dah wan?" greeting. When I advised her that I'd like to get some lunch, she told me to wait a moment, then after some duration finished her cell phone conversation, finally got up, stepped behind the counter and asked me "What did yaz saz youz wanted?"

To make a long story, but not as long as her cell phone conversations, short I ordered the jerked chicken which came with a small amount of chicken, a mound of not so good rice and 5 (I counted them) measly little black beans; no black bean sauce. I have to give them credit that the jerked chicken was tasty enough though I nearly lost my appetite when the Jamaican flag drape was pulled away revealing the squalor of the kitchen. I commented on the kitchen and was advised "We only just opened."

It was high noon and during the course of my meal I was the only customer they had though several seemingly neighborhood people stopped by to tell jokes and generally goof off with the counter clerk and the cook.

Overall, though I did like the taste of their jerked chicken I could hardly find it to be of redeeming value in light of the crappy rice with 5 black beans, presentation in a take out container, inattentive service and general appearance of the kitchen.