excellent place!. i sought out island frydays to get a taste of caribbean, and it really delivered. my friend suggested trying the beef pattie and coco bread sandwich after having them from ny street vendors, but i wanted chicken too. the cute co-worker suggested thejerkchicken as the best of the chicken dishes, and man was she right. it had an excellent grilled flavor with a great blend of spices. as my friend put it, it was how you want your chicken to taste when you grill it yourself. the man who put our order together asked if i wanted white or dark. i said both and was delighted to see him produce a huge meat cleaver and get to work chopping up large pieces of chicken. it came with really good steamed cabbage and veggies, delicious fried plantains (which we think may have been sauteed) that were very sweet - like a delicious sweet potato, and some rice with beans in it. when asked if i wanted some of the chicken gravy on the rice, i said yeah, lets try half. the half that got it blew away the half that didn't. it was an au jus that really gave the rice and beans a whole new flavor element, and helped disperse the dry feeling you can get from rice sometimes. i'll always get it like this from now on. and for $8, it was a very large portion.
then i realized i also ordered the pattie and coco bread. i had to at least take a few bites before taking the rest home. it was great. the patties are normally fried, but theirs were still flaky and dry, and not heavy in the slightest, so i think they may have been baked, which is great. the coco bread was soft and sweet. it reminded me a lot of hawaiian bread, but different. i loved the place, and i will definitely be back.