Four steel oil drums smoke behind the counter at Tasty Jerk in South Norwood, and a cook cleaves the chicken legs and the pork belly into hand-sized pieces as you order. Melissa Thompson, who cooks barbecue for a living, calls that pork belly the best jerk pork she has eaten outside Jamaica. Dom Taylor cooked the same food at the fine-dining end at The Good Front Room in Dalston, a room named for the front room a Caribbean house keeps spotless for a guest, where whole jerk chicken for two leads the carte.
Caribbean and jerk.
The rooms, best first
- Tasty Jerkverified
Four steel oil drums smoke behind the counter, and the chicken is cleaved to order off them.
- The Good Front Roomverified
The carte leads with whole jerk chicken for two, cooked at the fine-dining end.
- Kaieteur Kitchen Originalverified
Faye Gomes cooked Guyanese pepperpot on cassareep at Elephant from 2003 until the 2025 lockout.