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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

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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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

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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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

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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6

Jamaica Breeze Restaurant

📍 232-02 Merrick Blvd, Laurelton, NY 11413
📞 (347) 894-8049

Pay-by-the-pound Jamaican buffet on Merrick Blvd. Oxtail, jerk chicken, ackee and saltfish, callaloo, curry chicken — full hot table, lively room, regulars who refill plates without blinking.

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7

Best Bites Caribbean

📍 4601 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203
📞 (718) 462-3842

East Flatbush mainstay where the steam table is the menu: oxtail and butter beans, brown stew chicken, curry goat, jerk chicken, stew fish on Fridays, plus rice and peas, mac…

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8

Miss Lily’s

📍 2067 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10026
📞 (212) 913-9700

Vibrant Jamaican restaurant bringing island culture to Harlem with colorful decor, dancehall music, and a menu featuring jerk chicken, escovitch fish, and rum cocktails. The brunch is legendary and the…

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