The Best Caribbean Food in London
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The best Caribbean food in London, according to the experts: The Infatuation, Eater, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Tasty Jerk comes out on top.
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Rank 1. Tasty Jerk
Jamaican
The smoke reaches you long before the menu does. This no-frills jerk shack near Selhurst Park runs on oil drums and seasoning that gets all the way through the meat, pork belly, chicken, goat, even lobster, each one carrying allspice and Scotch bonnet heat in equal measure. It's the kind of place where the room is an afterthought and the grill is the point. Eater and The Infatuation both keep it on their London shortlists, and the prices won't make you wince.
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Rank 2. 2210 by NattyCanCook
Caribbean
The rum punch arrives before you've even thought about food, which is the right order of events at this Caribbean restaurant in Herne Hill. Chef Nathaniel Mortley built a following on Instagram as NattyCanCook before opening the room, and the crowd eating here suggests the transition worked out. Warming spices, sweet notes, jollof rice, and a sticky toffee pudding that quietly refuses to be conventional.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. Kaieteur Kitchen
Caribbean
Pepper pot and garlic pork cooked low and slow at a market stall that has survived longer than the shopping centre it once stood beside. The chef draws on Guyana's layered culinary history, where cassareep, clove, and cinnamon turn a stewed chicken the color of mahogany. This is Guyanese home cooking at a counter in Castle Square, and the queue tends to answer any questions you might still have about it.
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