In this food bar, stainless-steel food trays inside a glass case enable you to view exactly what's…read moreon the daily menu. You choose to fit your appetite. The large combo platter comprises your choice of seven dishes, the medium platter is five choices, and the small is three. The five items depicted in my photo of my medium-size plate are, clockwise from the top, grilled tofu, steamed broccoli, baked sweet potatoes, sautéed green beans with red peppers, and curried potatoes. The above descriptions double as the simple names of the dishes. The food does not masquerade behind pretentious titles, nor does it appear flamboyant or pretend to be fanciful. What you're served are affordable and generous portions of delicious and nutritious food. Real food. Americans call this natural food. In the Rasta lexicon, natural foods are redefined as Ital foods. As you might adduce from the photo, the café's two owners are Rastas, and their cuisine is authentic Jamaican Rastafari Ital. "Ital" is derived from the word "vital." To provide "vitality," Ital food on your plate differs little from how it looks on the farm. Ital food is usually vegan, but not always. Only four of the five Rasta cafés in Connecticut and nearby Worcester are strictly vegan. As there is no Board of Ital Cuisine to issue certifications, Ital cooking does vary with the territory. The Ital food served at Caribbean Style Vegan is, as its name attests, always vegan. It also is always nourishing, colorful, and skillfully prepared. Nothing is ever too spicy or too salty or too sweet or too oily or overcooked or undercooked. Grilled in a spicy barbecue sauce, even the jerk tofu is humanely spiced. With just the medium platters, I always feel satiated but never bloated, evidence of the frugal use or total absence of oil. Never drowned in oily sauces, the veggies remain visually recognizable and inherently flavorful. Caribbean Style Vegan stands as my favorite of the seven Ital cafés in which I have dined both stateside and in Jamaica. At the two Ital cafés that I visited in Kingston, neither served any mock meats. Yet at some cafés in the U.S., their varieties of mock meats almost equal their numbers of veggie dishes. I am mystified that in our corner of New England they serve so many highly processed mock meats, a concession to the American lust for meat. In contrast, Caribbean Style Vegan upholds a higher standard. It serves only a single mock meat. Grains, beans, greens, and root vegetables predominate. Most veggies are steamed; a few are sautéed; none are deep-fried. My kind of food. For in-house dining, you'll find two sunlit tables along the south-facing wall of plate glass window. Still, the café is more conducive for takeout. I have witnessed a steady flow of regular customers who sometimes place multiple orders of takeout meals to deliver to their families waiting at home. Yet even when other customers wait in line with you, the wait is always short. Their social media accounts is seldom updated. So view only their website. Yet, the website menu is viewable only during open hours. To place an online order or simply to view the website menu, you must wait until 12 noon, Wednesday to Saturday.

The best food! It's so hard to find good vegan food with big portions at a fair price and these…read moreguys hit the mark every time without fail. We always have full, happy bellies with leftovers to enjoy the next day. The food is consistently amazing and the staff/owners are wonderful! We choose this place over any local vegan option nearly every time and happily make the 30 minute drive without hesitation! A must try even if you aren't vegan

Pretty good, i got the oxtail and the Rasta pasta. The oxtail was good, they gave a nice amount of…read moregravy. The Rasta pasta needed flavor though. The sauce was bland.

I ate the food so quickly because it was so good! So happy to have found this spot. I purchased the…read moremedium sized oxtails dinner with cabbage and rice and peas. I will definitely be back.

excellent food every time, more importantly super clean, quick service that is always smiling!…read morethese young people got it right! happy to give them my money to them every time! i cant wait to try the ox tails. nothing else to say other than it makes me smile to buy great food from a smiling face! -JOSHUA SPOERNDLE PS jerk chicken with cabbage is great for your soul

The taste was there, it was flavorful and delicious. I would rather have the mixed veggies as an…read moreoption, especially for breakfast (lighter). The service was excellent, the guy behind the counter was very pleasant and helpful.

IGNORE the very few low ratings. Please!…read more If you are going to take the time to take a picture, upload it, and complain, then you should take a small portion of that time and calmly explain to management your concerns, that is how things get better. I have ordered from here many times, staple being the jerk chicken. Zero complaints other than they are closed on Saturday's which makes sense. Food is delicious and you would think that you were chilling out. Everything was FRESH, which is one of my most important and challenging characteristic from any restaurant. You would think that your grandmother spent two days cooking this just for you. 5/5 easy. Support your local family-owned businesses, if not, there is cheap horrible chinese takeout around the corner. Yuck

Ordered take-out for the first time and it was delicious. Staff are welcoming. Restaurant was well…read morekept and comforting. Rasta pasta was so yummy, so was the patty.

amazing food great service was very pleased with my time there the place felt very homeyread more

This place is a dump. Not very clean. Very dusty with cobwebs. Lady with the short blond hair was…read moreso rude and acted so put out to take our order. Beef patties were bland and nasty. Jerk Chicken was very flavorless. I've had authentic Jerk Chicken in Jamaica and this was far from authentic. Sadly this was our first and last time. Don't waste your time for bad food and service.

Friendliest service I've seen for a business of this size gave me a piece of oxtail because I said…read moreI never had one before so generous and proud to be from Jamaica which was so cool always smiled and the food was really juicy ans fatty almost fell off the bone

I'm new to the area and I decided to place an order. The food was generously served and…read moreexceptionally tasty! Flavor tun up! Blessings Sister Maxine

Very cool place. I love a good lounge atmosphere. There is a parking lot across the street and…read morethere is street parking. I went a few months ago so this review is long overdue. The food was okay however when I did go the DJ was amazing!

Jazzys is a community favorite for weekend brunch events, open mic nights, and weekend nightlife!!…read moreAnyone who's been out in New Haven on the weekend has probably heard of Jazzys! This Black owned business keeps the New Haven nightlife full of life. Now onto the food, I've been to several events that catered from Jazzys and the food is always always AMAZING for catered events!!! I went to a Yale sponsored panel that featured sweet potato corn bread from Jazzys--- absolutely delicious. They also served curry chicken, baked chicken with their signature sauces, cilantro rice, rice and peas, lentil Pattie's, plantains and cabbage. I was blown away. I went to Jazzys to dine in for dinner and unfortunately the food wasn't as good in the restaurant. The menu also wasn't as expansive. I'm not sure if it was an off night for Jazzys but I wasn't impressed by my dine-in experience. That being said, I've had catered food from Jazzys about 5 times and each time the food is amazing! TLDR: this a great option for night life or catering.

This is one of my favorite restaurants however, it needs to be two people working here instead of…read moreone. I have a special diet and I really look forward to eating from this restaurant but the service is not reliable as it used to be. It seems no one is there every day at the time the website says they're open.

Very low key place but by far the best /most authentic Jamaican food in new haven area .soooooo…read moregoooooodd.paid $10 flat no taxes for this plate .good prices unlike some other Jamaican restaurants.seriously y'all should give this place a try asap

good lord this place has got every puerto rican delicacy and they do it right. Sitting in the turn…read morearound on long wharf the line on a beautiful summer day was so long it was impeding traffic. Worth every penny, and every second I waited. Crispy fried Renello De Papas, Arroz con Gondules & Pollo Frito. Couldn't ask for a better meal. $7.25 with a coke.

Their empanadas are good, not fantastic, but definitely good. Especially with the hot sauce that…read morethey have. Their passion fruit juice, however, is out of this friggen world incredible. It's obviously in Spanish on the sign, and I don't remember what it's called in Spanish, but you can figure it out. I'll update this to be slightly more helpful next time I'm there, but in the meantime, go try the passion fruit juice. Thank me later.