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Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ — Restaurant in Hyde Park Township

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Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ
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Humble pit stop for charcoal-grilled Jamaican jerk meats (& taco options) from an old family recipe.
Nearby attractions
Evan's Club
319 E 75th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch, Chicago Public Library
415 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Nearby restaurants
Baba’s Famous Steak and Lemonade
7859 S State St, Chicago, IL 60619
Shark's Fish & Chicken
100 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Tastee Rolls - Southside Chicago
130 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Church's Texas Chicken
58 W 79th St, Chicago, IL 60620
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant
131 E 79th St, Chicago, IL 60619
JJ FISH AND CHICKEN
47 W 79th St, Chicago, IL 60620
Maxwell Street Express
7901 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60620
Soul Veg City
203 E 75th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Fifty Yard Line
69 E 75th St, Chicago, IL 60619
Maxwell Street Polish
7445 S State St, Chicago, IL 60619
Nearby local services
Forman Mills
122 W 79th St, Chicago, IL 60620
ALDI
7345 S State St, Chicago, IL 60619
Big Sam's
133 E 75th St, Chicago, IL 60619
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Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ
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Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ

7723 S State St, Chicago, IL 60619
3.7(1.5K)$$$$
Open until 9:00 PM
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Humble pit stop for charcoal-grilled Jamaican jerk meats (& taco options) from an old family recipe.

attractions: Evan's Club, Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch, Chicago Public Library, restaurants: Baba’s Famous Steak and Lemonade, Shark's Fish & Chicken, Tastee Rolls - Southside Chicago, Church's Texas Chicken, Pepe's Mexican Restaurant, JJ FISH AND CHICKEN, Maxwell Street Express, Soul Veg City, Fifty Yard Line, Maxwell Street Polish, local businesses: Forman Mills, ALDI, Big Sam's
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Phone
(312) 709-8281
Website
jerktacoman.com
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Wed11 AM - 9 PMOpen

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Featured dishes

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Salad - $15
Includes romaine, egg, cilantro, Parmesan, Caesar, onions, jerk sauce in an edible tortilla bowl. Served with choice of protein. Choose a protein: Veggie, Chicken, Tilapia $3, Catfish $6, Steak $8.
Pasta - $15
Jerk Alfredo fettuccine pasta served with your choice of meats, topped with shaved Parmesan. Choose a protein: Veggie, Chicken, Tilapia $3, Catfish $6, Steak $8.
Plain Jerk - $7
Choose a side: Nachos, Fries.
Loaded No Meat Jerk - $10
Cilantro, onions, cheese, jalapenos, sour cream and jerk sauce. Choose a side: Nachos, Fries.
Loaded Chicken Jerk - $15
Cilantro, onions, cheese, jalapenos, sour cream and jerk sauce. Choose a side: Nachos, Fries.

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Nearby attractions of Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ

Evan's Club

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch, Chicago Public Library

Evan's Club

Evan's Club

4.5

(20)

Open until 12:00 AM
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Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch, Chicago Public Library

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch, Chicago Public Library

4.3

(65)

Closed
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Nearby restaurants of Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ

Baba’s Famous Steak and Lemonade

Shark's Fish & Chicken

Tastee Rolls - Southside Chicago

Church's Texas Chicken

Pepe's Mexican Restaurant

JJ FISH AND CHICKEN

Maxwell Street Express

Soul Veg City

Fifty Yard Line

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Baba’s Famous Steak and Lemonade

Baba’s Famous Steak and Lemonade

3.8

(217)

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Shark's Fish & Chicken

Shark's Fish & Chicken

3.8

(350)

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Open until 12:00 AM
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Tastee Rolls - Southside Chicago

Tastee Rolls - Southside Chicago

4.1

(189)

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Closed
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Church's Texas Chicken

Church's Texas Chicken

3.3

(973)

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Open until 11:30 PM
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Nearby local services of Jerk Taco Man Caribbean BBQ

Forman Mills

ALDI

Big Sam's

Forman Mills

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ALDI

ALDI

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Big Sam's

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Ruthie GambleRuthie Gamble
Went for veggie taco; which the menu ingredients indicates, onions, cilantro, cheese, and jerk sauce. I received onions, cilantro, cheese, jerk sauce beans, peas, and some sort of breading, etc. I was praying it wasn't soy, as for medical reasons I'm restricted from having soy. Therefore, I texted the number on menu to see what I was served. I received a response saying "That is not me"! Then their menu picture was sent with a caption indicating "This is me". I replied "I'm appalled...most certainly is! My family and I traveled a great distance to patronize the establishment for the first time. I'm a pescatarian who only eats veggies and seafood, so I was confused as to what this is on my "VEGGIE" taco, because I didn't see any of these ingredients on your menu. My husband ordered 2 steak, 1 chicken, 1 fish, and 1 veggie at approximately 8pm. Now this is frightening! VERY deplorable!! WHAT DID THEY SERVE ME! This was our first time and we traveled from far suburbs. Unbelievable and very frightening!!!! EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE SHADDY CHARACTERS WALKING AROUND AND THEIR SECURITY GUARD LOOKS INTOXICATED ... Anyways, the sandwich looks a little mangled because I picked it apart to disect it..Was praying Yelp would allow a picture. My fish taco like the caught it in a swamp!!! Disgusting stank fresh smelling and tasting fish I've ever had. In conclusion don't waist time or LIFE going in the ghetto (I grew up on Madison & Laramie and went to Spencer and Michelle Clark schools) trash!!!!!!
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Michelle Eats (THE FOOD PLUG)Michelle Eats (THE FOOD PLUG)
Greetings, these tacos are BIG BIG . The tacos are smokey, and the meat is tender they can be hot, or you can get jerk sauce on the side
Kerron BootheKerron Boothe
Rasta man tried with the meat (Chicken and pork) in terms of seasoning and quantity served, so rating for just the meat 2 out of 5. But Everything else is a disaster at negative out of five levels. I took a friend from NY there and was just embarrassed that after a week and half of eating all over American cities (in IN & IL,) this food came in 2nd to last on my rankings the second worst meal we had just above a mom and pop shop in a forgotten town in IN. Chef, you just dont overwhelm any fish dish with so much of the Jerk seasoning. Packing the meat on top of those soggy fries not fit for dog food in its presentation. Pepper sauce was just wet jerk spice mixed in water, a recipe for running belly. No way, man. Poor side of Chicago selling Jamaican food in its poorest state ever seen. Every (repeat) customer there certainly dont know better (Jamaican) food. Not even down a Callaloo Mews when it was Riverton City you'd find such a dump of a meal. We threw away all the bread, the fish after tasting a speck of it and found it drowned in jerk seasoning, the vegetables after confirming it too was drowned in jerk seasoning, all the fries, about 25% of the pork and 50% of the chicken. My friend and I hate wasting food but we had no problem dumping this.
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Went for veggie taco; which the menu ingredients indicates, onions, cilantro, cheese, and jerk sauce. I received onions, cilantro, cheese, jerk sauce beans, peas, and some sort of breading, etc. I was praying it wasn't soy, as for medical reasons I'm restricted from having soy. Therefore, I texted the number on menu to see what I was served. I received a response saying "That is not me"! Then their menu picture was sent with a caption indicating "This is me". I replied "I'm appalled...most certainly is! My family and I traveled a great distance to patronize the establishment for the first time. I'm a pescatarian who only eats veggies and seafood, so I was confused as to what this is on my "VEGGIE" taco, because I didn't see any of these ingredients on your menu. My husband ordered 2 steak, 1 chicken, 1 fish, and 1 veggie at approximately 8pm. Now this is frightening! VERY deplorable!! WHAT DID THEY SERVE ME! This was our first time and we traveled from far suburbs. Unbelievable and very frightening!!!! EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE SHADDY CHARACTERS WALKING AROUND AND THEIR SECURITY GUARD LOOKS INTOXICATED ... Anyways, the sandwich looks a little mangled because I picked it apart to disect it..Was praying Yelp would allow a picture. My fish taco like the caught it in a swamp!!! Disgusting stank fresh smelling and tasting fish I've ever had. In conclusion don't waist time or LIFE going in the ghetto (I grew up on Madison & Laramie and went to Spencer and Michelle Clark schools) trash!!!!!!
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Greetings, these tacos are BIG BIG . The tacos are smokey, and the meat is tender they can be hot, or you can get jerk sauce on the side
Michelle Eats (THE FOOD PLUG)

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Rasta man tried with the meat (Chicken and pork) in terms of seasoning and quantity served, so rating for just the meat 2 out of 5. But Everything else is a disaster at negative out of five levels. I took a friend from NY there and was just embarrassed that after a week and half of eating all over American cities (in IN & IL,) this food came in 2nd to last on my rankings the second worst meal we had just above a mom and pop shop in a forgotten town in IN. Chef, you just dont overwhelm any fish dish with so much of the Jerk seasoning. Packing the meat on top of those soggy fries not fit for dog food in its presentation. Pepper sauce was just wet jerk spice mixed in water, a recipe for running belly. No way, man. Poor side of Chicago selling Jamaican food in its poorest state ever seen. Every (repeat) customer there certainly dont know better (Jamaican) food. Not even down a Callaloo Mews when it was Riverton City you'd find such a dump of a meal. We threw away all the bread, the fish after tasting a speck of it and found it drowned in jerk seasoning, the vegetables after confirming it too was drowned in jerk seasoning, all the fries, about 25% of the pork and 50% of the chicken. My friend and I hate wasting food but we had no problem dumping this.
Kerron Boothe

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3.7
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2.0
7y

I've been there a few times, I'm not really crazy about the prices, but I got over them period. There are several complaints I do have about them. First one, they have a $3 convenience fee for debit cards now, and you don't get cash back, if I paid $3 it's usually at the ATM.. And if my order is under $5 at any other location they would only charge me $0.50, these people want $3 for my transaction.. On this particular day they had a sign that they wanted $3 for it convenience fee, the debit card machine was not working, so you wait in this long line to get to the front to find out that you can only use cash because our machine is not working and if it was working we're still going to charge you $3 just to swipe your card.. Outside of charging us $3 for a convenience fee which is ridiculous, and you don't have a sign up that says our debit card machine is down, especially after it takes a while to wait in the line for your food.. The biggest issue is a sanitary problem, out of all the people there are only two or three people have something on their head, they have braids and dreadlocks that's open that's flying everywhere, some of them have gloves on, and the ones that have glove on they wear them the whole time I saw them make 7 orders, without changing their glove once, the man wipes his shirt the table and went right back to making the food.. They have no sanitation buckets whatsoever, there was one dry rag that the guy took off another counter and wiped off his station and put the rag back behind him on the dirty counter that it came from, while I was standing there maybe 5 minutes later oh, another person grabbed the same rag to wipe off another station once again no sanitation solution or water for these racks to sit in or to be cleaned, sanitation is one of the worst issues I seen there, no changing of the gloves that hair is not covered and no sanitation system whatsoever, the food is good but it's not worth getting sick from this place is...

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1.0
8y

Went for veggie taco; which the menu ingredients indicates, onions, cilantro, cheese, and jerk sauce. I received onions, cilantro, cheese, jerk sauce beans, peas, and some sort of breading, etc. I was praying it wasn't soy, as for medical reasons I'm restricted from having soy. Therefore, I texted the number on menu to see what I was served. I received a response saying "That is not me"! Then their menu picture was sent with a caption indicating "This is me". I replied "I'm appalled...most certainly is! My family and I traveled a great distance to patronize the establishment for the first time. I'm a pescatarian who only eats veggies and seafood, so I was confused as to what this is on my "VEGGIE" taco, because I didn't see any of these ingredients on your menu. My husband ordered 2 steak, 1 chicken, 1 fish, and 1 veggie at approximately 8pm. Now this is frightening! VERY deplorable!! WHAT DID THEY SERVE ME! This was our first time and we traveled from far suburbs. Unbelievable and very frightening!!!! EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE SHADDY CHARACTERS WALKING AROUND AND THEIR SECURITY GUARD LOOKS INTOXICATED ... Anyways, the sandwich looks a little mangled because I picked it apart to disect it..Was praying Yelp would allow a picture. My fish taco like the caught it in a swamp!!! Disgusting stank fresh smelling and tasting fish I've ever had. In conclusion don't waist time or LIFE going in the ghetto (I grew up on Madison & Laramie and went to Spencer and Michelle Clark...

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1.0
1y

On Feb 12th I placed and paid for an online order for pickup at the west side location directly through the website.

Upon pick up i was informed only 1 of the 3 items I selected are available at that location though they were all available to order on the menu.

They could not refund my payment at the store. They did not offer a gift card to cover the additinal cost, nor did they offer to replace the items with similar items.

This was at 930 pm. The manager provided his number and promised he would speak with the owner and give me a call back.

That did not happen. 1 week later i called the manager again who assured me that he would call back later that day with a solution. He did call, stating he would call back the following day with an update on returning the money to my payment card.

Several days went by without contact from the manager,so I called again. He was "surprised" this had not yet been resolved and said he would speak to the owner the following day.

It's now been an entire month since I ordered from their website, items they said would be available. Items I paid for and was not able to procure from this establishment.

Do NOT order online from Jerk Taco Man or you may not get your items and there will be no refund.

I'm still waiting for my 35 refund on my 50 order a month later. What kind of business can't refund an online order?

I will NEVER visit this establishment or any others due to this cumbersome and frustrating experience and will advise others to...

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