Mama Cleo kitchen — Restaurant in Bristol

Ordered a large brown stew fish with rice & pea, plantain & 2 dumplings

Now then… I find it quite rare to see brown stew fish on the menu of a Caribbean restaurant/takeaway (it should be more common, I don’t know why not?! It’s one of if not the best Caribbean meals on offer IMO.) so after scouring through about 10 different Jamaican menus on the east side of Bristol, to find one with brown stew fish on the menu I was already pleased!

The fish, a whole red snapper, was lovely and fresh and pulled away from the bone nice an easy, the stew that goes with it had the authentic stew flavour and consistency I was looking for, rice and pea was perfect, veg was well cooked and flavoursome, plantain was bangin and the dumplings had a unique crispy, crummy crust on them that I’ve never experienced on a Caribbean dumpling before.

For £19 I was absolutely stuffed! Could have halved everything I bought and had 2 meals out of it to be fair but I hadn’t eaten anything that day so ate the lot! Masses of rice, plenty of veg, whole chunky fish, thick cut plantain & generously sized dumplings!

Service was good, the guy behind the counter soon cracked on with it after I’d ordered over the phone and his young female accomplice behind the counter was incredibly smiley… Good...

Ordered two salt fish fritters £1 each, large oxtail with rice and peas £13. Where do I start, well the fritters were literally just salty fritters, not one piece of fish in either. Oxtail was the worst I’ve ever had. Mine tastes better whenever I make it, tasted of tomato ketchup. Rice was soggy and stuck together with no flavour and some pointless veg. Plus it arrived quickly but cold, they didn’t even bother warming it up. So dissatisfied and disappointed with this meal that I’ve had to throw the oxtail and rice in the bin, can’t even give that to a dog. How on earth are they still in business. First and last taste of this food. Only got it from there as bikkle didn’t have any. I’ll do without next time Bikkle...

Order the rice and peas With oxtail and curry goat. And I must say It was absolutely delicious. The rice was cooked perfectly and the curry was wonderful as Curry melted into my mouth. This reminded me of my mum's cooking. Also, I would most definitely recommend fruit punch in a cup with ice in it. A great drink to have while eating food. The only problem is the parking as the streets are surrounded by double yellow lines but I wouldn't use that as an excuse to not go here. Also, the staff in Mama Celos were fantastic, very friendly, and great with the recommendations. I'll be...