Kingston Kitchen at the Village Inn — Restaurant in Mackinac Island

This food was delicious--with a huge caveat! BUT, service is VERY slow. Our server didn't know that we had been assigned to her, and we waited 45 minutes to even obtain drinks. We had to flag her down. It was very busy at dinnertime. Almost everything on the menu is GF, but NOTHING fried is. Server was knowledgeable about GF offerings. I had jerk chicken with beans and rice. Portions are huge (half a chicken? 2 scoops of beans and rice), so my sister (not GF) and I split it. She had the plantains, and also added an order of Bammy (all on her own plate).

I don't know chicken parts, so I pretty much randomly divided up the food on her plate and mine. Apparently, ALL of the white meat was horribly dry. I tried to give her the extra sauce from my plate, but she literally had trouble swallowing it because it was so dry. I had a drumstick and what I guess was a thigh. Mine were exquisite. Very moist and flavorful. I felt bad, but like she said, she'd prefer I had the better meal since she has no dietary restrictions (and can grab a quick bite anywhere else). We spoke to the manager, who was apologetic, but seemed like nothing was going to be done. I am not exaggerating when I say that half of the chicken on the plate I received was inedible due to dryness. I even demonstrated, squishing it between my fingers. It took a lot of effort to do so. Even some of the Bammy was hard as a rock, and could bang noisily against the plate with little effort. (What my sis could eat of the Bammy was tasty, though--3/4 of it.) With some prodding, the manager agreed to give us a discount. She was overly generous, giving us a 50% discount. I would have been happy with 35-40% because the rice and beans and plantains were fantastic. I tipped on the original amount because none of this was the server's fault.

My gluten-eating parents split the nachos (a huge pile on the plate!), and absolutely loved it.

Definitely recommend this restaurant, even with the issues (dry chicken,...

10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!! By far the best place on the island to eat, as a Jamaica - I can attest to these dishes, by far the best place I've eaten in the USA, takes me back to Jamaica.

Courteous staff, the atmosphere is family friendly - resonates the perfect Jamaican aura & the food is sublime, mouthwatering & and tantalizing, to say the least.

My daughter has a gluten & egg allergy, which makes it a bit hard eating out with her. The staff was very knowledgeable of her allergy & she savored every bite of her meal, it warmed my heart to know they had gluten-free bun.

We had the Trelwany Trifecta (3 appetizers of your choice) - we had the Seven Cheese Ackee Dip - it was mouthwatering with every bite; The Jonkanoo Jerk Beef Tips was packed with flavor & the gold sauce compliments it very well; Pork wings were succulent to the last bite.

We treasured every bite of the Rice & "Peas", Braised Oxtail, Coconut Curried Chicken, Fried Plantain Steamed Veggies. The MacWacker, in my opinion, is the perfect sweet tooth adult beverage. The Manchester Banana Old Fashioned was well spirited.

In summary, I can testify and appreciate the love, dedication and preparation that goes into the preparation of these authentic Jamaican meal, everything was well thought of & its great to enjoy a meal that is made from scratch & isn't taken straight out of a bag, can or box. Kingston Kitchen is serving up our number one soul food - the proof is in the puddin.

My only regret was not ordering some of the Jerk Chicken, Smoked Jerk Pork, Curried Goat and Ackee and Saltfish to go. I'm looking forward to visiting Mackinac Island again and dining at the number 1 restaurant, Kingston...

I'm honestly so sad about this review. My family and I have specifically wanted to come here the last couple of times we were on the island and it worked out today.

First problem was allergies. My son has a sunflower and sesame allergy which was near impossible to work around. As an allergy momma we worked around it. But overall lack of allergy awareness. I specifically said sesame seed allergy and then ordered the whitefish dip. The crackers were literally sesame crackers. Like sesame seeds everywhere. My son was anaphylactic and even if I didn't make clear it wasn't for my allergy son, I can't even have that on the table as loose seeds are always a challenges. Least of the issues really.

It was dirty. So dirty. After the allergy issues we found a hair in my husbands food but let it go given the allergy issues already. We then proceeded to find dirt in the ice in my cup of water and my husband. My kids had kids cup with lids so I opened the cup to hope they hadn't been drinking that dirty water only to find more hair in my kids cup.

We let the waitress know, specially saying we were just telling her and didn't expect anything and she literally asked us if "we were sure it didn't blow in." Ummm in all 3 cups? One being with a lid. That just put me over the edge.

I'm really sad since we really looked forward to it. But the topper was just chicken so dry it was hard to chew, and it was a thigh. How a thigh is so beyond overcooked is hard to believe.

For 100$, I expect much more. Especially bc it was 100$ for two meals. My kids were gonna share and so was my...