Jay’s Jamaican cuisines — Restaurant in Tampa

I'm from Brooklyn NY so you can't fool me...The price for a small Curry Chicken is higher then others I frequent. $15.99 and never told me I was being charged extra to use a CC❓️ This is a food truck 🚚 so he doesn't have the higher rents like a brick n mortar place which 2 I know are less 💰 I couldn't remember the name when I was there as I was hangry. After eating the Curry Chicken, I can now think 🤔 😋 My 1st visit here. Convenient in a gas station parking lot so at least you know there's a real bathroom nearby n to Wash your hands. The Curry Chicken was delish n so was the cabbage with mixed veggies. The rice n peas was good but I like Hines Caribbean Cuisine rice n peas better but not so much their curry Chicken. Jay's curry Chicken is better. But I feel like I paid for the price of a Large when I asked for a small dinner. I did say something straight away...Your immediate competition is Metro Meat Market that also has a Jamaican 🇯🇲 cook who makes the Curry Chicken & Oxtails both also less 💰 but no rice n peas there. I am a foodie n my speciality is Ethnic Foods‼️😋❣️ No real line at the food truck makes this a quick pick up & go but the atmosphere sucks because its the hood. Lots of unhoused...

The food was so good I didn't get to take pics. We ordered the jerk chicken and curry goat. Everything was amazing, even the cabbage and rice and peas. A lot of times when I go to Jamaican restaurants they focus heavily on the flavor of the meats and totally miss it on the sides. The jerk was smokey, spicy seasoned to perfection and the meat was tender. The goat was also well seasoned, spicy and falling off the bone. As a Trinidadian and foodie I stamp this place official!

I was a little thrown off by the peculiar natives and that it was a food truck and not a restaurant but the food was totally worth the sketchy local. I would definitely be back the next time...

Purchased Escovitched Snapper Fish with peppers, onions, and scotch bonnets medley over white rice with steamed cabbage, and Curry Chicken over white rice with steamed cabbage. Absolutely Delicious. The only thing I would change is a little less salt on the curry chicken. The Snapper, I usually eat my peppers and onions stewed down over Escovitched fish, this was my first time eating it blanched/uncooked; not sure the preparation. But It was absolutely delicious this way! Going forward I’m eating mines this way, and I feel it’s more...