It's a family restaurant, but offering great food, service and atmosphere. Highly recommend the…read morejerk chicken, we had the jerk chicken waffle, it's well flavored (but not overwhelming), I prefer it without the maple syrup just to appreciate the original flavor! Cheese cake and fried plantain are great choices as well, soft and sweet, you can feel the comfort in your stomach. Recommend!

A family run restaurant with tasty food and friendly service. Be prepared to relax in cozy and…read morebright seating. I have enjoyed many of the dishes with oxtail and chicken waffles being favorites.

When the food is in front of you and the music is bumpin' there's no place you'd rather be!…read more The vibes are truly Irie! Jerk, fried or curried, the chicken is... Lawwwd have mercy! Chicken stew roti, callalou, or just get the goat curry if you cannot choose. E recommends Red Stripe to wash it all down and the cocktails were jammin' too! Side note... Ackee & Saltfish Dip to start is E's new lipsmackin' pleasure. Well kiss me neck! In all honesty, this place needs more attention. A gem in the HRM! Support this establishment!!!! Great service, great food, great vibes. Don't worry, be happy (after trying this spot). - E

My second visit in, and this time I tried the jerk chicken with a pineapple coconut soda! There was…read morea veggie slaw of some kind with onions and peppers, I wasn't sure I was going to like it but I was pleasantly surprised! It mixed it well with the rice. Really enjoyed the jerk chicken and the mix of spices they use. The gravy that they pour on the rice is one of the best gravies I've had in my life. It has an amazing aroma and I just can't get enough of it! The peas (beans), are not something I normally would eat, but they taste so good in this rice recipe that I love them. I'm hoping to get that coconut spice cake one of these times if its there when I'm in, for now I got the rum cake which was good. I put a little caramel sauce on it when I got home. I want to try that Red Stripe beer one of these days to! Keep it up! (I broke the perfect formation of the rice before I thought to take a photo).

I really wanted to like this place. I've tried several dishes and my biggest issue is how oily…read moreeverything is. There's a pool of oil in the bottom on every dish. I think if they fixed this, it would help the quality of their food as it's nearly impossible to finish it this way.

If I am able to give zero star, I would…read more Me and my friend had the burger week burger for takeout and we paid $30 for those. First, the burger week website said it comes with a side. No, it did not. Second, the burger week website said it has tomato, lettuce, onion and jerk chicken bites. No, none of those were on the burger. Third, the cheese were so thick that they suppose to be served separately with crackers. Fourth, they didn't even bother ask us if we want our burger medium rare before they just went for it. Fifth, the bun was so wet and it didn't look like a Jamaican style coco bun to me. Sixth, the patty taste like nothing inside. For the outside of the patty, we only tasted spicy but it had no flavour. Seventh, beside us waiting for more than 30 minutes for the burger, we called the restaurant and received really bad service. We said it is very disappointing, and the manager said that's fine. I don't understand this restaurant. I won't recommend people going.

We enjoyed it. Out of the main tourist area so a little more peaceful and less waiting. Cornbread…read moreand the pulied pork sandwich were delicious

I will say the signage is really funny here and it's got a great location on the wharf. Plus the…read morestaff are really lovely. But the food was totally not any of these... We ordered quite a variety from the bbq platter, to the pulled pork tacos, and jerk chicken sandwiches. Everything in the bbq platter had the same flavor of seasoning, which turned out to be too spicy for any of my kids to enjoy as well. The jerk chicken also had the same flavor as the rest of the bbq platter. And the pulled pork tacos just nothing noteable or extraordinarily unique.

New to the Halifax food truck scene as of this year, Jamaica Lee is slinging a handful of the…read moreisland's best known dishes from this bright green bus. I'd been wanting to try them out for a while, but their usual home base of Dartmouth and my schedule this summer had not been working in my favour. The food stars finally aligned though when I was working one sunny weekend and Jamaica Lee was one of the trucks at Brunch at Bishop's. Once my work was taken care of for the moment, I made the jaunt up to Bishop's. Being around 2pm, there wasn't anyone lined up, so things went quickly. They had a small set of offerings: jerk or curry chicken with rice and peas, ox tail, beef patties, and "festival", which I would later learn were cornbread fritters. Thanks, Google. I went for the jerk chicken meal with rice and peas ($10), and tacked on a beef patty ($5) to sample some more of their wares while I had the opportunity. It just took a couple of minutes for everything to get packaged up while I took in the waterfront sights and sounds and chatted with the cool cats at Halifax Press. Back in the office under fluorescent lighting, I dug into my significant pile of food. The peas in the rice definitely looked more like red broad beans, but the name didn't matter much as it was tasty stuff; lightly seasoned, perfectly cooked rice that was even better with the jerk chicken sauce. The chicken was pleasantly plentiful - four hunks of drumstick and thighs, with a great jerk seasoning that was spicy but not oppressively so, and a light dash of sauce for some sweetness and more depth of flavour to the infamously complex jerk spices. I had a small bit of my co-worker's oxtail as well, and while I had the poor luck of choosing a piece that was more bone and fat, and less meat, the sauce had a fantastic mix of tomato and beef flavour. The beef patty was an impressive hue of orange, and was a decent size, although five bucks was kind of pushing it for something like this. The meat was heavily spiced and packed a good kick to it, but sadly the flavour of the beef itself got lost among the spice and other seasonings. I like a good beef patty, but probably wouldn't go for this again, saving my five notes for something else. Jamaica Lee is doing it right by keeping the menu concise, and the jerk chicken spicy, delicious and approachable. I'm glad I finally got to try them out, and will be keeping them in mind in the future for all of my jerked meat needs. PS. They really need to drop the "Style" from their name. Jamaican cuisine varies from household to household, and I don't think there's any/many people that are going to call BS on their food not being authentic Jamaican food.

Jamaica Lee Style keeps things simple and great. With only three menu items when I went, you know…read morethat it's a quality vs. quantity approach. Frequently at the corner of Main Street & Caledonia - I'm grateful that a food truck besides ol' school donuts is in Dartmouth. :) I showed up to the bright green truck, looked at the three menu items: - Jerk Chicken - Oxtails - Beef patties I believe all three come with rice and peas. I opted for the Jerk chicken - $10 taxes in. What a perfect blend of flavours and heat. JLS definitely does jerk chicken right! I wanted to savour the taste and flavours so bad, but I couldn't help it. I devoured it immediately! Good portions and I was full afterwards....but I still crave it every other day. Beef patties is next!