Island Flavors Cuisine

Eh. My husband and I ordered jerk chicken from here and it was editable, but nothing spectacular. The beans and rice were dry and flavorless and the spinach just tasted like defrosted frozen spinach with no seasoning. The plantains were okay, but kind of mushy.

I walked down the street today to find that Island Flavor Cuisine has moved in through the restaurant-​revolving-​door of 353 N Calvert. Serving a wide range of traditional Jamaican cuisine and catering mainly to the courthouse lunch pack, the shop is run by a really friendly Jamaican lady that will walk you through the menu and show you the wares.
I asked for some spicy noise to pound back the cold Bmore winds. She recommended the goat curry platter ($ 8.50) which came on a bed of red beans and rice with a side of steamed cabbage and a few slices of fried plantain.
The goat curry was delicious. Tender hunks of goat meat served on the bone were well flavored but not spicy at all. The sauce was great and well-​textured but sadly, the red beans and rice were disappointingly flavorless. It left me trying to ration my bites with sauce and meat to flavor all the rice. The fried plantains on the other hand were the best I’ve ever had. Slightly gummy from caramelization on the outside, tender and smooth inside, they beat any weak bananas I ate on Spanish III field trips or even in Costa Rica.
I definately will give this place another go, the jerk chicken looked ridiculous. Give this place a shot, just make sure your beans and rice get sauced up good and try ‘em plaintains.