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Best Jerk Chicken in NYC — IslandVibes.nyc
Caribbean NYC Guide

Best Jerk Chicken in NYC

The five-borough jerk authority — vetted Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx

1

Negril Village

📍 70 W 3rd St, New York, NY 10012
📞 (212) 477-2804

Upscale Jamaican restaurant in Greenwich Village — the first Caribbean fine-dining room to plant a flag downtown. Elevated takes on jerk, oxtail, curry, and a serious rum bar. A destination…

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2

Peppa’s Jerk Chicken

📍 738 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
📞 (718) 284-1670

One of the most famous jerk chicken spots in Brooklyn. Peppa's has been serving perfectly smoked jerk chicken with festival, rice and peas, and fried plantains for over two decades.…

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3

Jerk House Caribbean

📍 4246 White Plains Rd, Bronx, NY 10466
📞 (718) 515-5375

Wakefield jerk specialist featured on ABC7 Neighborhood Eats. Charcoal-grilled jerk chicken, pork, and ribs with rice and peas, festival, and homemade scotch bonnet sauce.

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4

C & J’s Cafe

📍 817 Utica Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203
📞 (347) 240-8463

Jerk chicken, oxtail, and breakfast ackee-and-saltfish in East Flatbush. Cash register line out the door on Sundays.

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5

Pattie Hut

📍 543 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
📞 (718) 622-3222

Pattie Hut is the Bed-Stuy Jamaican counter for stewed chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and jerk — alongside the beef and chicken patties that give the place its name. A Nostrand…

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6

Kokomo

📍 65 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
📞 (347) 572-7598

Kokomo is Williamsburg's art-deco-meets-island-maximalism Caribbean restaurant, built by husband-and-wife Kevol and Ria Graham — Jamaican for him, Trinidadian-Grenadian for her. Jerk chicken, island-inspired cocktails, and one of the most photographed…

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7

Sea Jammins Caribbean Cuisine

📍 3827 Bronxwood Ave, Bronx, NY 10469
📞 (718) 994-3875

Williamsbridge seafood-forward Caribbean kitchen. Curry shrimp, escovitch fish, lobster, conch, and the full jerk lineup. Steady regulars, active on Instagram for daily specials.

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8

De Hot Pot Restaurant

📍 1127 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225
📞 (718) 856-3644

De Hot Pot brings authentic yard-style Jamaican cooking to Flatbush with their legendary steam table that's been satisfying the community for years. Known for their rich, slow-cooked stewed peas with…

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