The Garifuna are an Afro-Indigenous people who settled in Belize after originating partly in Africa, with their own language, music, and food traditions that almost never show up on a Chicago menu — this is one of the only places in the city built specifically around that cuisine rather than general Caribbean fare. The jerk chicken gets most of the attention, but red snapper and stew beans and pigtail are just as representative of what the kitchen's actually doing.
It's been filmed for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Check Please, and Chicago's Best, and the Chicago Bears named it a 2023 Gameday Eats small-business winner.
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