Lil' Negril Island Grill — Restaurant in Ottawa

My husband ordered take out here yesterday for 6 people for my mother in-laws birthday. She requested good West Indian food, so my husband thought this was would be a good place to order from because of the reviews.

My huband ordered 2 Jerk Chicken meals, 1 Curry Chicken meal, 1 Fish meal, 1 Curry Goat meal along with Oxtail meal.

They charged my husband about $100 or more for all of that, and that's excluding drinks we didn't get any. The food was absolute G-A-R-B-A-G-E!!!!!!

The Jerk Chicken was practically just bone, you might as well call it Jerk Bone. The was basically no meat on it, I've never seen Jerk Chicken like that from a restaurant before. I was literally SHOCKED!

The rice had no flavor at all, my father inlaw complained and said there was only 7 peas in his rice. He thought it was bland as well. Myself along with my inlaws are West Indian, we expected a lot more from this resturant considering it's West Indian food (Jamaican Food).

We also received very little Curry Chicken, the box was mostly rice. It was EXTREMELY dry and had no flavour. Also, my mother in-law was saying the Curry Goat did not taste like goat, she said the meat tasted different she couldn't quite pin point what it was (she's Jamaican, I'm pretty sure she knows what Goat tastes like).

My mother in-law and father in-law we also disappointed with the fish, they were expecting it to be a snapper but it was salmon, they said it was ok, but weren't really happy about that either.

I am going to contact the manager to see if he can do something because we felt like we threw our money in the garbage. If nothing is done to make it up to us, we will never eat from here again and I will tell others how bad this place is. From my experience the quality of the food is just garbage, how can you expect to feed people bones with Jerk Spice....that is...

Went to Lil Negril for lunch today, arriving right at opening time, noon.

I had the jerk chicken with mango salsa, a ginger beer and the day's cheesecake special. The ginger beer was quite sweet and not so gingery as to taste hot. The jerk chicken was mildly hot, spice wise but came with a bowl of jerk sauce for dipping so you could add more jerk heat to the flavor. The mango also was basically just dry, cubed mango so nothing special. The temperature of the food could have been better. The chicken was warm, not hot and the plaintain was barely warm. And two small pieces of plantain seems skimpy for an $18 dish. The only thing that was actually hot was the rice and peas. The cheesecake though was quite tasty and well worth the low price.

The restaurant was nicely but sparsely decorated but didn't really have that caribbean vibe I'd expect. There was one painting of a tropical scene I was quite struck by.

I think I'd like to try this place in the evening before giving a final review. Being there right at opening and based on the barely warm temperature of the chicken and plantain I have to wonder if we're were getting rewarmed food not fresh cooked. Given there were only two tables occupied and the reasonably fast service, I doubt the food was left on the counter too long and cooled before we got it. On the other hand, it all seemed fresh and quite tasty so I don't want to turn anyone off coming here. I only gave 3 stars for the food because it was lukewarm, not for the...

Hello my mother ordered the tropical fried chicken combo for my aunt and I on Uber eat from this restaurant we got are food but it did not come with the 3 sauces so we called them a lady came on the phone and we said “hello we ordered a food from here and we didn’t get our sauce” so the lady said “ ok let me check our camera and then she ask what was the order number of the food so we told her it so she gave the phone to the owner.he said “hello what is wrong” so we said we didn’t get our 3 sauces so he kept on asking what’s wrong the lady was talking in the background to him and he was talk to her and us at the same time so we told him again we didn’t get our sauce so he told us ok next time we will give you a extra sauce. First we won’t be ordering from there again and second what will we do with 6 sauces the next time we order we just want the one for each of our orders he kept on repeating the same thing so my aunt asked does that make senses why don’t you just bring are sauces and we had to pay for the sauce with our order so we should have gotten a refund he started to say you ordered it with Uber so u have to tell them but even if we tell them we still order the food from your restaurant your restaurant would have to give us the sauce and the money goes to you so he kept say the Same thing so we hanged...