The Izland Jamaican Kitch'n — Restaurant in Prairieville

We absolute love Jamaican food and was thrilled knowing that Gonzales opened a new restaurant. We decided to come in and try it. We ordered the Oxtails with rice and peas and cabbage, Jerk Chicken with rice and peas and cabbage, a beef patty, plantains and coco bread.

EVERYTHING was cooked great and seasoned well! The Oxtails were fabulous and the jerk chicken was just as great!

The lady who took our order was very nice and professional along with the cook that even brought out our food. He wanted to make sure we were enjoying the food :) They both checked on us a couple times while we were there to make sure we didn’t need anything.

Great service, great atmosphere and delicious food-we will be back for more. ...

Decided to try it….Ordered Jerk Chicken, rice/peas, cabbage and dinner roll (an extra $2 for a tiny dinner roll, I might add) to go.

Order comes up, I take it to car. It’s missing the cabbage. My receipt says all of those items, the to-go receipt is missing cabbage. I go back in, the counter clerk asks me to give her the receipt, then asks me to open the order to “show her”. She says, “it may have been my fault”.

Front counter clerk proceeds to bring the receipt to the back where the kitchen worker comes to the front where they AGAIN makes me open the order “show them”. I’m not trying to scam you out of a side order of...

The food was not good at all. I had the Jerk Chicken plate and it was far from being authentic Jamaican food. The chicken tasted like it was baked in crab boil. There was no jerk flavor anywhere. They put the cold salad on the same plate with the hot food. The curry chicken appeared to be cut up drummettes with curry sauce. We waited thirty minutes to get the fried plantains and chicken and vegetable patties. The vegetable pattie tasted like a cold chicken pot pie. The only thing that was pleasant was the drinks. But I would have liked it if I had been offered a cup of ice. Probably...