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Island Spice Restaurant

4.1 (42 reviews)
ModerateCaribbean
Closed • 10:00 am - 7:00 pm

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Curried Goat Oxtail Rice and Beans Steamed Cabbage Fried Plantains
Bessie S.

The customer service was very professional. I had Oxtail with Rice/Pea it a must have. So delicious very well season the Oxtail fall off the bone. I wouldn't recommend the Cabbage it can use some work not cooked enough or seasoned. Had a sample of curry goat delicious as well. But for over all experience I definitely will go back

Curry Chicken
Darlene T.

Our first time and I was SATISFIED. The way the meat on the oxtail just melts in your mouth it was amazing. So to get the full experience of this mouth watering flavors, you must get the rice beans, cabbage and fried plantains. All of this mixed in your mouth it's an explosion of greatness. The curry chicken was also a hit. Will not be the last time I eat here I loved it. I walked out full and satisfied they did not hold back on the servings.

a tray of rice, meat and vegetables
Dana H.

Best curry in the city. Good service and lunch specials. Small business. Will go again.

Jerked Chicken
Michael J.

Cost: $5-$15 Food Quality: Very Good Decor: Local Jamaican Service: Very Good Cuisine Type: Caribbean/Jamaican If you want to eat real Jamaican street food this place has a pretty good jerk chicken, grilled outside the restaurant, chopped into pieces and served over a red bean and rice, and excellent plantains. The char-kissed chicken is appropriately spicy and tad bit salty but the real heat comes from the gravy ladled over the rice. Many of the other dishes on Caribbean Delight's menu Little stews such as a popular goat head stew that was sold out before lunch! Other entries include oxtail soup and a huge variety of curry dishes. A definite and clear standout is the popular goat curry, the meat was very tender rich natural flavor sharply accented by chiles but also enrobed by more complex, warming curry spices. Goat Curry is a traditional north Indian dish and this place does an amazing job with the Jamaican version that one must try.

Kimberly C.

I tried this restaurant with my mom today . It was really good . We had oxtail , jerk chicken & curry chicken . We liked everything . We had cooked cabbage with it instead of rice . Great for those on Atkins or ketogenic eating plans.

Lunch Special: Curry Chicken $4.99
Lala S.

Finally I found the right Jamaican spot in town. I've been going to random Jamaican restaurants in Killeen and I just so happens to accidentally come across this joint. Great food! Reasonable price! Wonderful service.. I absolutely love it! I am so satisfy and I would like to recommend everybody to go and check out the spot.

Donald S.

I moved to Killeen in late January 2015 and since that time I've experienced four different Jamaican restaurants. Island Spice is by far the best of them all! The cabbage is always fresh and you can taste the coconut milk in the rice and beans. But of course the most important part is the meat...I've had both curry and jerk chicken to authenticate the restaurant and it is indeed irie! You will not be disappointed with the Jamaican food here!

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Very good food. I will be back for the jerk chicken. The oxtail meal I got was very delicious.

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Thanks for your support and positive feedback. We appreciate it!!

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Food is really good, rice is kinda over cooked. Its a very convenient location near post.

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Wow called to place a order and got hung up on after I said a word and called back and no answer . Terrible service to me .

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My husband & I absolutely love this place! We always get the oxtails with rice... Great flavor & good portion size! Price is decent also.

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Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Merenguitos, meringue (in the refrigerated section of the grocery side)

Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store

4.0(37 reviews)
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Pasteles! Pernil! Everything you need for Puerto Rican dishes (and they even sometimes have mavi…read morebark, quenepas, pastel and pastelillo de guayaba, turron, and morcillas)! If you can't find what you're looking for, just ask one of the employees. This grocery store is THE "go to" tiendita for all Boricuas and NewYoricans in Bell County.

Because my "second family" is Cuban and I have a great affinity for all things Cuban (not just the…read morecigars and the rums) I always have a complex about non-Cubans preparing Cuban like things. There is even a Seinfeld episode on point about this with the Dominicans rolling the crepes. If you don't believe me compare a Romeo y Julieta (DR) to a real one, or any of the other cigar companies that have a DR factory with non-Cuban torcedores to one from the motherland. With the limited reviews of this joint on yelp I was having to read between the lines that the ladies preparing the food were probably not authentic Cubans. But based on the very favorable four to five star reviews of the Cuban sandwich from other yelpers, they seemed to know how to put in work on the gentlesir's favourite panini type class of sandwich so I was sold on giving it the olde "college try" since the prices seemed quite reasonable and I needed to submit receipts for travel reimbursement to my organization that were not handwritten. Just a note for yelpers - the "grocery store" part of the business is actually called Killeen Nutritional Center which has a separate yelp business page and this is the page for the to-go restaurant portion of the biz. I wandered around there for several minutes trying to find the sammich counter until I realized I was at the deli (in the grocery store) and the girl behind the deli counter was actively ignoring me. So I spotted the door behind the registers the other way and walked into the sammich place I wanted to be in. They could really use a sign or something, or workers that will acknowledge your existence and direct you appropriately. I actually know some spanglish so I know enough to be helpful asking where ya boy can obtain his emparedado. There is "prepared food" cafeteria style that most people dining in seemed to be getting so there is a line for that. However if you are gentlesir in for a sammich then you go straight to the register to order it there, pay for it, then you go wait for it to come out. There are also people buying the pastries out of the case at the register which are neither sammiches nor prepared cafeteria style take out, so there is some light confusion and at one time there appeared to be three separate lines of people trying to get it in at the one girl working the one register at the counter. The Cuban comes with Swiss cheese, pork, ham, mustard, pickle, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mayo. Or if you are bi-curious: el cubano (es una balleza tambien) tiene queso suizo, pernil, jamon, mostaza, pepinillo, lechuga, tomate, cebolla, y mayonesa. Homey costs $3.35. You read that right. This is not the best Cuban I have ever had if we are being honest. It was not prepared by authentic Cubans, but they never represented that they were authentic Cubans so we have to temper expectations accordingly and especially at this price point. I have to review the sammich in accord with Antone's last non-chain outpost in the Med Centre who also was not Cuban, but they mastered the non-Cuban art of making Cuban food. I am pretty sure my order ticket they put in to the kitchen said something along the lines of me being a gringo, possibly a puta also but I will never know even though I always assume this is being said behind my back and the main reason why I learned spanglish. This thing came with a Shania Twain sized heaping of mayo. So much mayo. Goddammit I don't even like mayo, that racist stereotype has to end. Meanwhile I love mustard and that was nearly nonexistent. I also love pickles and there was little pickle to speak of. If I knew they were going to go HAM on the mayo I would have just told them to hold it entirely and slide some pickle magic into the sammich in its place - but I would have to be careful that nothing got lost in translation since sliding a pickle into something is a double entendre which we snuck past the censors, just like that lemon party joke. So that is my most useful tip I can give you for your visit, tell them to hold the mayo unless you want six pounds of it on your sammich just ruining everything and your good time. THAT IS NOT HOW A CUBANO IS SUPPOSED TO GO. The meats were extremely dry and I suppose the giant dosing of mayo was an effort to mask that desert dryness, which was exquisitely unsuccessful on me but may have worked its charm better on other diners. I put the sammich on par with Subway quality at best (especially the underwhelming tomato and lettuce quality) but not customizable at your own instruction as Subway is, so you don't need to take any responsibility for the creation of this monstrosity. This was my worst meal on my road trip through this area. However, I am still rewarding them with a three star yelp review (an #upgrayedd of stars taking into account the totality of the circumstances beyond the disappointing sammich) since unlike KMB they printed me a proper receipt I could actually use for reimbursement from my organization.

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Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - The cubano in all his glory. If he was a cigar I would smoke him but he is a sammich so I will eat him. Many ways to live your best life.

The cubano in all his glory. If he was a cigar I would smoke him but he is a sammich so I will eat him. Many ways to live your best life.

Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Got that sammich in my hands

Got that sammich in my hands

Puerto Rican & Caribbean Grocery Store - Waiting for my order at the table nearest the register. If you aren't getting food from the hoppers at back you just order at the register

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Waiting for my order at the table nearest the register. If you aren't getting food from the hoppers at back you just order at the register

Island Spice Restaurant - caribbean - Updated October 2026

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