Garifuna Flava

In the second meeting of Country Club, wherein we are eating through the alphabet, this time the letter "B" lead us to "Belizean" cuisine, we ended up here on a friday night at 8.

Since it was totally empty, they had no problem accommodating our group of 8.

The staff was friendly, funny and easy going. It is a family-run place where our waiter was the son, his mother the chef, the father chilling at the bar.

Our table had a lot of questions about the menu, which were answered in great detail. And with passion, that is one thing this place has a lot of is passion along with love of sharing the food of their homeland.

the food was above average and also very authentic, just the type of place that you would want to go for Country Club. Not like the time we went to Ñ on Elston for Argentine food, that was a waste of time and was not authentic.

After dinner we headed over to Karolinka Club, which was a big disappointment.

On the word of a good friend of mine we visited Garifuna Flava about 2 weeks ago. I am a big fan of Caribbean cuisine, so it's an understatement to say I was excited about visiting this place.

While the area and decor of the place is not my cup of tea, the food hit a definite bull's eye. This is some of the best Caribbean food I've had the pleasure of putting into my greedy mouth. I'd never had Belizian food before, but from this moment on I will always have a special place in my heart for the local good eats of the small Caribbean country.

I had the jerk chicken lunch special which was good, but slightly different from Jamaican jerk ,in a good way though ( you'll have to try it yourself, it's hard to describe what's different about it...lol.). My date had the brown stew which was very good, so good in fact I got food envy.

The service and decor were adequate.

Next time I go I'll be trying a few choices from the drink menu, I predict a rollicking lunch...lol.

This place is great.  It is a bit off the beaten path but the food is wonderful.  The conch fritter and OxTail Stew are amazing.  The owner is a great guy, and took some time to talk to us about the food and story of the restaurant.  I will definitely go back.