Caribbean Fiesta — Restaurant in Alpharetta

I have been working in the Alpharetta area for a little of 10 years and I have been coming to this place off and on. In fact my company had bought us lunch from here on several occasions, many years ago. The prices and quality of the food years ago was the perfect combination. You could not find a better place 10 years ago for Caribbean food. The jerk chicken was tasty and flavorful and the oxtails did not have any competition. It has become hard for me to even go here anymore. The prices have become outrageous and the quality has gone down substantially. The serving sizes have shrunk to a fraction of what they once were and even the serving containers are smaller than what they use to be. The jerk chicken is now over spice to mask the sometimes burnt portion and the oxtails are so dry and over cooked and especially over priced. We all know the price of oxtail has gone up but that is no excuse for poor quality. The jerk wings are dried up and the mixed veggies and also the cabbage have been over done the last few times I went. The curry has been just green water with some curry spice because both the curry chicken and beef have no flavor. They have now started cooking for the people that live in Alpharetta instead of the hard working people that just work there. If I am going to pay 15 dollars for an order of oxtails can I at least have some oxtails not just the bone that the meet fell off? I am writing this review because I once loved this place but like many restaurants it is well past its prime. For example I have been going there for years and seen the owner and her husbands dozens of times and several times I have seen them away from the restaurants in various locations over the years and she and her husband have boon spoken to me a number of times. I hadn’t seen her in the restaurant the few times I had recently gone but when I did see her I said hello and she looked right through me as if she had never seen me. So I spoke up and said long time no see, how have you been and she said I’ve been here. At this point it was apparent she had no idea who I was. It pains me to say but after all these years I will no longer be returning to Caribbean fiesta at either location. In my opinion the owner has become an Alpharetta snob and has forgotten where she comes from. Like some many islanders where they get some money in their hands they tend to think they are better than others. I am not writing this because I am upset; in fact I have waited several days from the last time I was there in order to write this review. I just want to share my experience with this place and how great it once was and in the times we live in it appears you certainly cannot find good service anymore but I want to hold these place accountable. If I did not go in and spend my money in this place like so many others it would probably not even be around. I am not going back to this place because of my experience and I will not long stand for poor service, inferior quality and...

I was reminded, two days ago why I stopped eating there in the first place. I asked the little, short, bumpy face girl, for a plate of boneless jerk chicken, without the jerk juice (because it adds extra spiciness to the beans and rice ) she did it anyways, and when I said no, she placed the container of food with the rest of my order and began ringing me up, and I asked her, was she going to replace the plate that she messed up, and she said oh no it's was just a little I put in there, and I told her I did not care if it was a drop. I asked you not to put any in there and you did so anyways, so I would like another plate, she the proceeded to go back and forth with me about the jerk sauce in my food, as if, I was in the wrong for wanting to eat the food that I was paying for the way I wanted to. So I got loud with her, then she wanted me to lower my voice, I told her, well then, stop going back and forth with me, about how I would like to eat my food, and there will be no problem, and she started fixing me another plate, taking out everything thing she had already put in my plate, accept for the rice, and putting it into another container. After that is when a older lady with a stuck up attitude and face came over to me, and rang the order up, with nothing to say about her nasty co workers behavior. I thought about not paying for the food and leaving it right there, after that. I remembered the last time I was there (which was about a year ago) the same female told me that before she could hand me my food, I would have to pay for it first, because other people had been stealing their food. And I wanted to look at my plate before I paid for it because she fixes your plate how she likes it. And she refused, so I left on that occasion. I had not seen her do that to anyone else and I sure was not going to accept that treatment from her, so I left the food and walked out that day. The only reason I went back that last time, was because I was with someone who wanted to try their food. And lastly let me say this, that if you are of a different ethnic desendant and you are cooking so called Jamaican food which we all know is a so called black persons dish, at least treat them with respect when they are spending their money, to eat the so called Jamaican food because we don't have to spend our money where people don't like us and just want our money. If you don't like us so much, cook your own people's food and you won't have to deal with people you don't like because of the color of their skin.

Also It's kind of ironic how there are Spanish people cooking Jamaican food, but have a problem with so called black people. If you don't like us, why want our money? Are you poisoning us, I'm mean, what is it? I am for sure never eating or recommending that anyone I'm with eat here. Never giving this place the benefit of the doubt anymore!!! It's about time we start calling out these places for...

I don’t typically like adding bad reviews and try to find what’s good, which was probably the cleanliness of the restaurant and staff friendliness. But….NEVER again would I order from here. This was my second time ordering food, last time it was curry goat which was HORRIBLE!.

But I was in a rush and this was the closet Caribbean place opened. The food was extremely expensive. I think the lady purposely rung me up a certain way just to charge more money and I had no time to review the receipt and ask questions as I had family from out of town and needed to pick up food quickly and rush back home.

I received 2 containers of oxtail, white rice (as I asked to taste the rice and peas there and it was sticky, overcooked and tasteless so I went with the white rice) plantains and 6 sodas and the bill came to $146. The food was not tasty at all, very bland for Caribbean food, some oxtail pieces needed to cook more and it was definitely not worth the price.Basically HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, and HORRIBLE AGSIN!

My family didn’t even want to eat it so basically it was a waste of money. Just ridiculous! 🤬 I would not recommend this place at all. Maybe other items on the menu are better but definitely not the oxtails or goat!!! Honestly I wouldn’t even try anything else! Added is my receipt and the containers of food I received for the high price. 😡 I guess they have to charge high because I can’t see how anyone would eat here and...