Good Hope original restaurant and bakery — Restaurant in New York

In short, the food is terrible. I would give the food zero stars if I could. My mom ordered a seafood soup for me and an oxtail dinner for herself. She also ordered a red bean and rice dinner. Hands down the worst food I’ve ever had from a restaurant claiming to have authentic West Indian food.

The seafood soup lacked flavor. No taste, no spice just broth with a few pieces of provision and seafood in it. Also, the green banana (green plantain) in the soup still had the skin on it. So instead of eating just the banana, I was eating the skin along with it. Like who puts a cut up green banana in a soup? Do you eat provision with the skin on it when serving it with salt fish?! No, exactly! At the very least, who ever made the food could have removed the skin for consumption.

Then the shrimp completely disintegrated because of the heat of the soup. The shrimp continued to “cook” in the hot soup even after bringing it home to eat, making it so the shrimp was complete mush when eating it. The fish was cut into the smallest half inch sized pieces. I could not even identify the type of fish in the soup. The dumpling was in the shape of little balls and was still raw in the middle when I bit into it. The oxtail was okay on flavor (at best) but the rice and peas had absolutely no color to it. It barely even had peas in it. It was basically white rice with a few peas tossed in. The rice was also mushy (not grainy) and the only color the rice had was from the little bit of gravy from the oxtail.

The red beans and rice dinner was just as disgusting as the oxtail and rice. Again, the rice was mush. Also, to add insult to injury, how are these dinners without an included side. The dinners did not come with steamed cabbage, plantains, Mac and cheese, coleslaw or even potato salad as part of the dinner which I presume would have been an up-charge. A dinner should include at least one side.

I grew up in this neighborhood and I am also of Caribbean descent and although I don’t not live in the neighborhood anymore, I do come back periodically to visit family. The restaurant prior to this had very delicious food and throughout the years I frequented that establishment. Apparently this is a different restaurant, new owner and chef. Quite frankly, I do not know what “Good Hope” is providing but I cannot call it good food. In fact, the food was quite inedible. I am all for supporting my people but this was truly disappointing. Consider hiring a new chef and changing the standards of how the food is prepared and served. Definitely not worth almost $50....

I’ve been going to this spot at least 4 times a week because my kid is super picky and only eats their jerk chicken or oxtail. I’m SO DONE.

My mom ordered 3 meals, including jerk pork with rice & peas and jerk chicken with rice & peas. She politely asked for oxtail gravy, server says, “We don’t have any.” Fine. She asks for stew chicken gravy on the rice the server REFUSES, saying “we’re not allowed to add gravy.” Since WHEN?

To top it off, the jerk pork they gave us was mostly skin. Not meat. Just skin.

And then there’s the attitude. The young lady who served us is the same one known for giving the tiniest portions like she’s counting grains of rice. Short pixie cut, glasses, and a permanent scowl. My mom says she was the one who served today, and judging by the way she acted, she must be related to the owners.

I’m done spending my hard-earned money here. I’ll happily walk to C&J’s on Church before I give this place...

if you want good food be ready to get it (with a side of what you didn't ask for) 'ATTITUDE'! I asked the server for peas, little rice and oxtail, she made 2 different orders, then came back with "we don't do that". I countered "it was done last week" and here comes the attitude, she trashed what she already made and grumbled as she plated what I originally asked for! So now when I go, I have to arm myself to expect 'Good Food with a side of Attitude' pay...