BLUF: Well-made and well-balanced Jamaican food: flavorful, moist, not too greasy, not too salty.
Dishes we've had:
- Jerk Chicken meal, Medium: $14 (cash). The jerk chicken is well-made, soft and tender. Bamboo Walk a few avenues north has a better bourbon-based jerk sauce, but Island Choiz holds its own, because the sauce ("gravy") here provides extra, needed moisture for the rice, while the rice from Bamboo Walk is dry.
- Ox Tails meal, Large: $22 (cash). Island Choiz gets ox tail right. The meat and tendon were soft, tender, and flavorful. The sauce is peppery, and a good accompaniment to the rice. The cabbage, bland in other places, had good flavor here. There were six ox tail pieces in our order.
Other:
Island Choiz has a few tables, but the restaurant seems mainly geared towards take-out, as there is no air conditioning.
There is a surcharge for card payment. There are no customer accessible restrooms. read more