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    JR's Jamaican Jerk

    2.1 (46 reviews)
    ModerateBarbeque, Caribbean

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids

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    Its worth the wait
    Chris F.

    Truly impressive place for what is a hole on the wall. The place is suffocatingly delicious. Its super smokey inside but the smell will make you salivate uncontrollably. The food is as good as it smells. I will definitely try out more jerk Jamaican places in the future. This is my first time eating this sort of cuisine. Update: So I ventured to a few more places. This place is still the best Jamaican Restaurant yet. They need to fix there Kitchen vent its too smokey inside. But the flavor of the jerk chicken, cabbage, rice, oxtail were all excellent and maybe a bit overpowering in flavor. Everything is super tender.

    Florida P.

    My go to jerk chicken taco spot never disappointed... normally get the same thing every time but lately I've been getting the taco an I'm able to split it ....

    Chick wings!

    This review is for the calumet park location. Ok, I tried to support but there's no way in hell I would go back to this place. I'd rather drive into the city to get jerk. First of all, they don't have a lot of the menu items. Secondly, the chicken was dry and just look at the pictures. What are those? Chick wings, baby bird wings? And I paid $7.44 for what is equivalent to maybe 2 1/2 wings. Save your money.

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    Kima W.

    Great food and great service. Their is a little bit of a wait but it's worth it. Any type of jerk food you want from salads, dinners, to wings and a awesome list of sides

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    The customer service is the pits and so is the nasty food. You will tear up your car in the parking lot full of pot holes

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    Got the Jerk Chicken Salad lots of times from this place never disappointed. Never stingy with the chicken. Always fresh.

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    The FOOD IS TRADITIONAL and always fresh, the service is nice and prices best in town

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    The jerk chicken is unreal. Incredible taste with a good amount heat. The mac and cheese was also very good.

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