Golden Krust Caribbean Restaurant — Restaurant in Miami Gardens

I don't know what happened since I came back to Miami but I guess for true Jamaican food I have to go to fort lauderdale where most Jamacans live now.. It was lunch time and I ordered the jerk Chicken with Rice and peas. They told me the jerk chicken was in the back so I waited... I didn't mind paying the $15 but that Jerk chicken wasn't even hot and it wsn't even jerk.. I asked for a jerk sauce and they gave me hot sauce.. really? hot sauce with Jerk chicken.. The rice and peas were good not overcooked , but everything was touching on cold , not even a tad warm.. I must say I came to Golden Krust today because when I was coming here 20 years ago, the food scene was definitely different.. Back then the rice and peas served in restauants were cooked with coconut and you could smell the coconut aroma coming up from the plate.. My only reasoning is that because few Jamaicans live in the area anymore, the current population prefers a low salt meal which actually makes the food pretty much tasteless. My reason for this is because I have gone to other Jamaican restaurants with good names that have been around a long time and I still had the above experience, but I must say because another well known jamaican restaurant I went to the food was so greasy if I had to I would come back to Golden Krust. I have gone to other Jamaican restaurants with good names that had been around a long time and I still had the same above experience but I must say because that food at The other well known restaurant was so greasy (tasted like palm oil) if I had to I would come back up this way to Golden Krust, but not for Jerk Chkn.. The cabbage was EXCELLENT.. but hey it cost me $15? The winner so far since I have been back in Miami is Cliffs... They cook that meat right in the back on a pit..and my food what...

I'm going to start off on a positive note. They have a wonderfully filling daily lunch special for $4.99. It includes rice, cabbage, plantains, curry or brown stew chicken and a can soda. The bun and cheese is also delicious. The store is cramped and tiny but it is kept clean. The food also tastes fresh.

However, the brown stew chicken is mediocre at best. What they call gravy is just the thin oil the chicken was cooked in. I suggest you request the oxtail gravy on your brown stew chicken and rice. They will kindly oblige you. But my main complaint was what I experienced today. I wanted red pea/gungo peas soup but they didn't have any. So I reluctantly ordered the chicken soup. Once they packaged my soup they told me there was no chicken in the soup. What?! What kind of chicken soup has no chicken?! I took the soup anyway and was not given a discount for the lack of chicken.

Hold on, but it gets worse. I took the food home and almost choked on the first spoon. It was ridiculously spicy and tasted like crab juice! Who is the cook?! I looooove spicy food but not my chickenless soup. I was not expecting that. And it was beyond spicy. It was inedible. I wasted my money purchasing that large soup. I should have just bought a bun & cheese. Their brown stew chicken gravy could also use some work. It needs to be thicker and...

I ordered two half of pans one Brown stew chicken and one curried when I ordered I asked how many people does it feeds she told me 18 to 20 people that great for $ 70.50 each pan. And if you look at the picture not even 15 pieces in pan. So the following day I called and spoke with the manager name Toni and she replied oh they must have used the wrong pan the pans look like they brought them from BJs wholesale club and she also told me that her associates should not have told me a half of pan feeds 18 to 20 people. Sounds to me lack of training I would have never paid $ 70.50 for 12 to 15 pieces of chicken. So I asked her to give me two more pans of chicken and some red peas and rice so that can make my guys that did not have any chicken so I can make my entire team happy. She replied oh I. Will let by Friday. My complete order 1 half pan of curried chicken and Browned stewed chicken half of pan of Red peas and rice white rice steamed cabbage total 311 dollars and change. The food was great just not enough. I will never order from again. And they need to change the price of there meatless soup change the price because it has no meat...