Garifuna Flava on West 63rd Street in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood has been serving the food of the Garifuna people — an Afro-Indigenous Caribbean culture centered in Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala — to Chicago’s Belizean community and the curious eaters who discovered it since it opened. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 3 of Diners,
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Carribean, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Jose’s Real Cuban Food appeared in Season 12, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Southern Flavor,” which aired September 19, 2011, as a Bradenton Cuban restaurant serving the authentic dishes of the Cuban table — ropa vieja, lechon asado, black beans and rice, and the pressed cubano sandwiches that the Florida Cuban community does
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Carribean, Cuban, Florida, Restaurants, Season 12Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired October 5, 2009, as a Miami Beach Haitian restaurant bringing the authentic flavors of Haitian cuisine to South Beach — griot, legim, plantains, and the piquant Scotch bonnet-fired cooking of the Caribbean nation
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 7Pam’s Kitchen on University Way NE in Seattle’s University District has been bringing authentic Trinidadian and Caribbean cooking to the Pacific Northwest since owner Pam opened it, serving doubles, roti, curry, and the kind of Trinidad street food that most of Seattle had never encountered. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Carribean, Restaurants, Season 7, Seattle, WashingtonVictor’s 1959 Cafe on Grand Avenue in Minneapolis has been serving Cuban food to the Twin Cities since 1994, named for the year that holds so much significance in Cuban history. The restaurant brings the flavors of pre-revolution Cuba to a Minneapolis neighborhood restaurant in a way that has built a 30-year local following and
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Carribean, Cuban, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Cheryl Chin was raised in Kingston, Jamaica with four siblings and a father who told them all they were going to America and all going to college. She came in 1980 and has been running Jamaica Kitchen since 1986, having taken over from the family that started it. The restaurant opened in 1980 as a
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 4Jamaica Gates Caribbean Cuisine on West Arkansas Lane in Arlington has been bringing authentic Jamaican and Caribbean cooking to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since opening, serving jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and the kind of from-scratch Caribbean food that makes the drive from Dallas or Fort Worth worth it. It appeared in Season 6, Episode
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