Jamaican D’s

Huge portions at a great price. Ordered the jerk chicken with Mac and cheese and rice and beans. Rice and beans were OK but hands down the best jerk chicken I’ve ever had. Mac and cheese was delicious.

Always amazing food. Cooked with love. Gotta know in advance what you want with back ups in case they don’t have it that day. The Wed-​Fri menu has oxtails, curry goat (see pic, faded out paper on left). Jerk chicken is amazing, and their sauce is always top notch. Get it spicy! Call ahead to order save time; if they’re not busy they’ll take your order.

Really tasty Jamaican food.
Huge portions
I always share with my boyfriend
Mac and cheese. Yams. Collard greens. All delicious
Jerk chicken is juicy and tender and full of flavor
This is comfort food for me

Jamaican food done well. Its difficult to track down the food truck, not always consistent but when available it is a great place to order from

My favorite meal in Philly was prepared by this food truck on CCP’s campus. I had the medium platter of jerk chicken with rice and beans and mac and cheese. Unbelievably large portions, probably not to be consumed in one meal, however how could I resist? It was delicious. Highly recommend!

The people were rude and i had to repeat myself a few times. And the food was absolutely horrible. I had passed this place numerous times and never tried it but I’m a big jamaican food lover so I kept telling myself I’d try it for months at school. Finally the one day I did. I ordered the curry chicken, and got mac and cheese and sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes and I’m easy to please but they were not good. The mac and cheese noodles were overcooked, and way over spiced. The curry chicken was the worse i ever had. It was WAYYYYYY TOO HOT. All you tasted was the chili peppers, it completely took away from the curry. Never returning!!!

Tasty food for cheap prices! What more can I ask for? I have not been able to try many dishes at Jamaican D’s because I always come later in the day (early evening) when they’ve run out of a lot of food, so come early in the day if you want all options available! I also recommend coming before the lunch rush if possible because my friend has warned me of long waiting lines during those times. As for the food, I’ve had their jerk chicken and curry chicken which are both delicious. The portions are huge, so I can usually get 2 meals out of 1 order.

I love this place! They have a walk in location at Wister and Chelten. The food is always excellent. The platters are loaded and the prices are just right.
This is the best Jamaican place in Philadelphia!

It was my comfort food during college! A tad expensive for college student, but it had a huge portion that you can eat twice!!!
I love the oxtail stew and always had it with lots of hot sauce, I mean a lot lot!
They are very nice people :)
The line is always long, yeah but it worthed!
Excelent service!
Everything from this food truck is awesomee!
No kidding, I miss the oxtail stew a lot after I transfered to Uni.

Best Jamaican food in philly so far. Jerk is better than the guy who makes it outside late at night by Nolibs hands down

I had food from the truck at 4^th & Spring Garden St. The truck is clean the food is really good. The line was not long to wait. I was able to order and make it back to my desk to enjoy lunch without rushing. I even had food left to take home…

Great food truck with fast service and amazing food! My favorite is everything, ox tails, curry shrimp, buffalo chicken tenders, everything! So good.

Jerk chicken with jerk sauce, rice and beans, and plantains. Mac n cheese and fried fish also yummy.

Wow what a great find! I chanced upon their food truck #2 located around 4^th and Spring Garden, not an area I usually go to. I got a small jerk chicken meal. It was SO MUCH FOOD! You get like a half chicken and 2 loads of sides. The chicken was so flavorful and the sides as well. I got the collard greens and rice and beans. Everything was so tastey, even the rice and beans were seasoned with their jerk marinade! I can’t wait to go back to try their oxtail and curry lamb.

I’m probably going to give them a refresher review when I actually eat the food but I have to review my experience. They were just plain out of all food. No Jerk, no Curry, no Patties, no nothing. Wait, they had Stew Chicken… I don’t travel all the way to the city to get Stewed chicken. Wish they had more to offer but they just didn’t. Again, I’m probably going to get bashed for actually not tasting the food but this is my experience and I’m sticking to it.

Best Jamaican I’ve ever had. The medium is 2 meals — not just government approved food pyramid meals but obnoxiously oversized American he-​man meals. God help you if you get large, I can only assume it’s enough for a small family, specifically Chris Farley’s family, may he rest in peace.
The jerk chicken and brown stew chicken are both excellent and tendah; the former had my big Jewish nose running from the heat. The sides really make the meal though, so let me help you out by ranking what I’ve gotten:
1. Rice & beans (I usually try not to wast stomach space on fillers, but this has outstanding flavor with some zing)
2. Mac & cheese
3. Cabbage
4. Collards (best collards I’ve ever had, not too bitter)
They were out of potatoes and plantains when I went (winter).
This place is popular so go sometime not between 12 – 1 or call in your order (even though they probably won’t pick up). The lady is really nice, but you gotta understand if she doesn’t seem that way when it’s busy.
The Unilocal location is wrong — they really set up on 17^th, south of Spring Garden, along the west side of the street. Google says 488 N 17^th. Just ask someone dummy.

In my opinion this is the best Jamaican food in the city! The portions are big and the food is just full of flavor. I use to go here everyday when I went to CCP, it was definitely the best part of my school days =) The Jerk Chicken is good but the OX Tail is just mouth watering; the meat is cook until it’s so tender that it just falls off of the bone.
Oh another thing I would like to add, with each platter you get a choice of a side dish ex: mac n cheese, cabbage etc. My favorite use to be the sweet corns but they stopped offering it many years ago. Definitely would be a big plus if they would add that back on the menu!!! But my second choice is always the side dish of steamed cabbage.
I highly recommend this place to everyone who loves flavor and Caribbean food.

The lady here is so nice! If she sees you looking confused, she’d ask a few questions and can make a suggestion. She also lets you try pieces and chicken and sauces.
There are platter deals here that are pretty nicely prices. I usually get the jerk chicken with 2 sides. My favorite sides are the potato salad and mac and cheese. The boyfriend likes the veggie and corns.
You can also just come here for an older of mac and cheese whenever you’re craving like I did. It’s the «small» size white styrofoam contain but for mac and cheese, that’s a lot!
Now that I’m graduated, I will miss stopping by this truck!

Growing up in a family of West Indian/​Caribbean descent, I think I’m one of the harshest critics when it comes to Caribbean restaurants. Jamaican D’s is one of the best restaurants in the entire Philly area to get Jamaican food. They actually know how to cook jerk chicken… on a charcoal/​wood burning grill the way it should be done with the smoke that makes your eyes water, but with the scent that makes your nose happy and your stomach crave what’s cooking on that grill.
The jerk chicken, oxtails and curry chicken are all amazing. The sides that accompany the meats are good, but they’re never the main focus of my meal. If you happen to be in the Mount Airy or West Oak Lane area, I definitely recommend stopping by Jamaican D’s if you have a taste for Jamaican food. The food is good and the price is extremely reasonable. Depending on your appetite, you can probably have dinner and lunch for the next day for well under $ 15.

I found Jamaican D’s, well after circling around Spring Garden for nearly 20 minutes trying to locate the icon on the Unilocal map, I discovered Jamaican D’s because Denise Soul Food was closed again. I’ve written off Denise Soul Food (Pink Truck) because they are never open anymore.
I ordered the Oxtail dinner for myself, and the Jerk Chicken for my wife. The food portions here are much larger than the portions from the Pink Truck, or any other Jamaican food establishment/​trucks I’ve eaten at.
The wife and I believe the Mac & Cheese, and the other sides are better at Jamaican D’s. The candied-​yams, which is particularly is not known as a West-​Indian dish, were a little different than what I’ve had at other places. Jamaican D’s gives you three sides with their large platters instead of the standard two. With that said, I believe the jerk chicken at Denise Soul Food (pink truck) is still; well, was better than most. The oxtails were decent and the gravy was flavorful, especially over those rice and peas.
Unable to get solid Jamaican food from my favorite place as of late, I am forced to search the region for a suitable alternate. Though I am not ready to settle, Jamaican D’s looks like a feasible option for time being. I plan on trying all the dishes this truck has to offer.