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Jamaican D's
Categories: Restaurants Caribbean Restaurants Food Stands Caribbean, Food Stands [Edit]
1700 Spring Garden StPhiladelphia, PA 19130
Neighbourhoods: Fairmount, Spring Garden
(215) 668-5909
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Has TV:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
13 reviews for Jamaican D's
13 reviews in English
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Review from Adrianne J.
Philadelphia, PA
2/10/2012
This is one of the bests trucks in the city. I love Jamaican food and this truck did not disappoint. I had the ox tail stew with rice and beans and steamed cabbage. I also had the mac and cheese on the side. It was a lot of food and enough to feed off of for two or three meals. Great food! I will definitely go back to the truck again.
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Review from Deann M.
2/16/2012 2 photos
It took me awhile to get to Jamaican D's because I am a spice wuss and I feared it. But this is one of the best trucks near CCP and if there isn't a huge line and I have a hankering for some filling food, I'll brave it out. The people that work there are super nice and sometimes if you wait a long time they will give you extra plantains or whatever other side dish.
Options that work for me are the Fried Whiting fish, Brown Stew Chicken, and BBQ chicken wings. They have platters where you can get sides too for just a couple dollars extra. I love the plantains, sweet potatoes, cornbread, rice and beans, and mac & cheese.
Today I got the BBQ chicken wings, which are usually just a tad spicy but today there must have been some rogue peppers that jumped onto my chicken. One of them decided to get stuck in the back of my throat and clung on for dear life. I grabbed for my water and sent it flying across my desk in desperation. After throwing a wad of napkins onto the new lake forming on my desk, I proceeded to glug down the remainder of the bottle trying to get the pepper unstuck from the back of my mouth. Finally after drinking two bottles of water, sweet relief washed it down.
I say this only to let those like me to beware the chicken. Sometimes you may get burned! However, the rest of the platter was much less painful to consume. If you like spices, they now sell their famous jerk sauce in bottles! Scotch bonnet peppers galore!
Also, the take credit cards, which puts them above all other food trucks that reside on the perimeter of CCP.Listed in: Exotic and spicy
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Review from Zyn M.
Philadelphia, PA
11/30/2011
Yum!!! My first "gourmet" food truck eats. I'm not very familiar with Jamaican food, but what I got was totally delish! I ordered curry shrimp with a side of sweet potatoes and mac and cheese. Here is the deconstructed review:
Curry shrimp - huge shrimp and perfectly cooked. The sauce was perfectly seasoned and not too spicy. When I got home, I actually had to take some bread and use it to sop up the rest of the sauce- can't have it go to waste (it was that good)!
Sweet potatoes - mashed. It was sweet and had a hint of amaretto (I think). It was very flavorful and could be a dessert by itself. My only complain is that it had traces of the roots, so some bites were a bit stringy.
Mac and cheese - tough to go wrong with mac and cheese. I thought it tasted good, mainly because it was smothered in curry.
The sweet potatoes and mac and cheese were an odd combination as sides (and because they were all pretty much mushed together0, but I had hard time hearing the guy in the truck. I kind of just quickly picked the sides. But I have ot admit, they were perfect together!
Price-wise, I thought it was a bit pricey, but it was definately a lot of food. They actually gave me an option of 3 sides (for the same price), but I didn't take it. I actually had to put away the other half away because I was too full to finish.
To make this a 5-star: guys on the truck need to speak just a bit louder (it was tough to hear with the motor), strain the mashed sweet potatoes, better/more sturdy food container.
Definately worth checking out and coming back to! -
Review from Anthony W.
Philadelphia, PA
5/12/2011
When I went to CCP I stayed at D's for one reason or another. It was the only place I could get pineapple soda and at the time it was my absolute fave. My favorite meal was BBQ chicken tenders, greens, macaroni, and cornbread. It was lovely. The tenders were crisp and the BBQ was more like spicy buffalo, but it was great. It was so good it almost felt wrong to have access that kind of home cooked taste on any given day. I've been meaning to get back over there, but so far it hasn't worked out. It wasn't unusual for the line to be 10-15 people deep.
I tried the beef patties once too, but I didn't care too much for them. Maybe it's just me. -
Review from Ciara S.
Philadelphia, PA
10/28/2010
Jamaican D's has to be my 2nd favorite Jamaican restaurant in the city but I must say the Ron's on Broad Street is #1..
However don't let that deter you they have great food here at Jamaican D's -
Review from Frank C.
Sharon Hill, PA
4/8/2011 2 Check-ins Here
very accommodating staff and large portions. Haven't had a bad meal yet. a delicious treat. The beef ribs are amazing and i always get the mac n cheese on the side it is very good. I dont usually order mac n cheese out. Im a total MNC snob. If you like wawa's MNC then you just dont understand. I tried on several occasions to get the curry shrimp but they never seemed to have it. when i finally landed it i was kind of let down but it was still very tasty.
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Review from Antoine K.
Upper Marlboro, MD
5/19/2011
Who would have thought that you could get GOOD jamaican food from a food truck? Well in Philly you CAN! Jerk chicken, or salmon. Plantain, cabbage, fish, and macaroni pie. Right next to the Community College behind the school District Building & Sping Garden & Broad st.
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Review from Fay H.
Philadelphia, PA
3/1/2011 1 Check-in Here
For a lunch truck, their vegetarian options are pretty good, but they don't have much vegan stuff. I'm pretty sure the collards and rice and beans are vegan.
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Review from Jerry W.
Philadelphia, PA
9/1/2010
Delicious Jamaican and Southern comfort food but you wait on average fifteen minutes to have your food prepared which can feel like an eternity outside a lunch truck. Also, beware, the fried fish has bones in it.
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Review from Valerie T.
Philadelphia, PA
9/9/2008
If only they had homemade ginger beer! This is a lunch truck right at the doorstep of Community College of Philadelphia. It's been there for years and there is always a line. They have goat, oxtail, really good rice and beans, and beef patties, just to mention a few items. They are less expensive than Jamaican Jerk Hut, not to mention the couple who own it are genuinely nice people.
Listed in: Top Eats
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Review from Nina d.
Philadelphia, PA
10/26/2008
I would walk across the city for this place...or truck rather. It's just that delicious. At times I have such a deep crave to eat their food. I've had many of things here from the jerk chicken to the fish to the chicken tenders and every side is just so amazing. Get some Caribbean drinks and you're good to go!!
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Review from Danni S.
Philadelphia, PA
11/2/2010
The location I like is the truck at 30th & market sts the fish is fried just right not too hard :-) the rice n beans are spicy and the greens and cabbage are soooo good the juice just drips from my lips lol
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Review from Michael B.
Philadelphia, PA
1/28/2009
Great food, great prices. Some of the best around
