Good Shepherd Haitian Restaurant — Restaurant in Linden

The service is warm & friendly. It's a traditional West Indian mom & pop restaurant, nothing super fancy but you can smell all the wonderful spices when you come through the door. The portions are large and seasoned well, but my food was incredibly salty. It tasted like hypertension with a side of stroke. I had steamed fish and my partner had griot. He was pleased with his meal but agreed that mine was too salty and he's heavy handed with the salt shaker in my opinion. I can't recommend this restaurant based on my experience, but if they were to cut back on the salt significantly I'd give them a second chance. On the plus side, the rice was delicious. It was firm, single grains and not clumpy and mushy. I didn't even bite into any cloves! Maybe they used clove powder. The plantain was fried perfectly. The restaurant was clean. You can decide...

The sauce meat rice was great. Sauce was quite greasy which I wasn't surprised, nothing a little spooning out most of the grease wouldn't fix. Easy, no complaints. I was drooling, felt like I got transported back to haiti lol. Only issue I have is place needs upgrades, I would like to see some menus and prices beforehand. I would call to help save a few minutes if I knew what they regularly cook on Saturdays. Although there's a picture online, I can't actually see it cause lots looks blurry. But I was told in time they'll have that done. Place is small so don't expect much. As long as you go there for some good food,...

I ordered some fritay over the phone the other day. After 30mns, I headed up there to pick up my food. Guess what? I spent another 60mns waiting... And at the end, the guy told me the other guy took my order not him and he didn't have anymore food. I just thanked him and called Applebee's where I got exactly what I ordered without even waiting. So one less customer! "M order manje a, m rete tann manje a epi yo di m pa gen manje. Hmmm merci bokou my people." Foli manje fritay sa pase pou yon...