The Brownstew Chicken was really good. Sweet, soft, and perfectly cooked. An expert source said the jerk chicken was the best they've had in the area, and it tasted like it too. I also loved the candied yams and plantains. I want to try all the other saucy chickens. 10/10, $11 Not pictured is a beef patty that I loved biting into, but apparently its supposed to be more finely ground(ed) and I wanted more flavor. 6.5/10, $3.50 read more

Lee's Kitchen - Brownstew chicken and jerk chicken - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

I was very disappointed with the food. The menu for the snack allows you to select two sides to go with your meat choice. I selected my two side choices, which were mac and cheese and collard greens. Despite the price that was listed on the overhead menu for the snack selection, which included two sides, I was told I had to pay an upcharge of $3.00 for the mac and cheese. I did not want to argue about something that I felt was unfair and inappropriate. What made the situation really disturbing was that the overcharged mac and cheese was ruined because it was placed and mixed with the oxtail meat and oxtail juices. This situation led to a decline in the food's quality, which did not meet my expectations. The presentation of the small snack container was very unappealing because the three food choices were squished together in a tiny container. My total charge for the small, tight, thin oxtails and two sides snack was not at all worth the $20.00 I was charged. The quality of the oxtails was a real disappointment that needs major improvement. I was expecting much better quality, and I would not recommend this food location based on my recent visit. read more

This was my go to spot until today. I spent $90 for two oxtail dinners, two extra sides and two red velvet cakes. The cake was great but the oxtail and greens taste like it was bad. They've increased the price but cut the oxtails thinner. Food had a slightly burn taste as well. Won't be back there. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

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I absolutely love their food. I use to live in Raleigh, NC and came to visit for a friend's bday. I lived here when they first opened up. They started at the Supper Club in raleigh. Years later the food is still top tier! Still the same setup, service still great, nothing much has changed and I love it. I wish I could go back now and order more but that's a long plane ride! I'm missing the food already. Happy to see them still going! read more

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First of all, the price, I just paid $33 for 13 shrimp over rice, rice was extra, some cabbage and collar greens. I wanted mac and cheese but that don't come on the plates anymore. They sell that now as a side, guess how much that side costs $5.50 What is so special about mac and cheese? In this place! read more

The food is amazing.Tastes great. I recommend a taste of real banning jamaican food in and out food always hot

Went to lees kitchen today 2/19/26 the price has increased again but the food was not the same and you get less for 35.00 than you received when it was 27.00, this can't be the same owners nothing is seasoned the way they use to and giving less of the bland food for more is just CRAZY well that's my last visit maybe the Raleigh Blvd store is still the best bet. Or I'll get some Oxtails at Larry's and just cook them myself read more

Pork chops were okay. They were over fried. No as well seasoned as I would've thought since it's a Jamaican restaurant. Nice portion sizes. One side comes with two pork chops which wasn't mentioned on the uber eats app so I ordered two and got four pork chops. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Pork Chops - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

I had the curry chicken Mac and cheese with collard greens. The chicken was really delicious Mac and cheese could've been a more cheese however the collard greens was great. I'll recommend it. read more

The food is always consistently good. I enjoy getting the oxtails and turkey wings. I missed when they used to allow you to order a side of oxtails. read more

9/12/21: It's our first time here. We were trying a few different items. I was personally craving candied yams & there was no other place around. The restaurant is very small. Only about 3 people can go in at a time. More could get in if there wasn't someone selling unrelated items to everyone that walked in the door. The service was ok. The food was another story. The pork chop was a nice size, but it tasted sour like it was going bad before they fried it. The yams weren't as sweet as I like, but my family loved them along with the Mac'n'cheese. The pound cake was dense & bland. We paid a lot to not be satisfied. I don't plan to go back, but my family probably will. read more

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Amazing food, they have a food truck that we ate at in down town. I got the spicy jerk chicken with plantains and Mac. The ambiance of the truck was southern Jamaican and local. The service was very friendly and incredibly fast. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Jerk Chicken Macaroni & Cheese Plantains - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

The ox tails are good, the ribs are delicious, the green beans are immaculate, the collards and macaroni is good as well. The prices are ridiculous now... about 5-6 c years ago this was my go to. read more

I ordered an oxtail dinner and a curry chicken dinner. The choose cabbage and yams as sides for both dinners. The plantains were medium size, tender, and not too sweet. The yams and cabbage were delicious. The curry chicken was balanced with flavor, and the oxtails were meaty and cooked to perfection. My two complaints were the tight space full of customers waiting for their food, and the wait time for my food. A staff member should have asked customers to wait outside for their orders, or three customers at a time should have been allowed inside of the restaurant. I do not like for customers to literally be on my heels. I will return again to the Capital Blvd location. The ambiance has a Caribbean vibe, but the shopping center looks run down and dirty. read more

Since they're only letting 4 people in the restaurant at a time during corona it seems like every time I drove by this place there was a line. But since Lee's Kitchen is so known and popular in Raleigh and I've never had it, I had to give it a try anyways. Let me start off by saying ubereats and the Lee's Kitchen app both miss a lot of menu items (turkey wings, beef patties, etc.) so if what you want is on there you're lucky but we weren't able to order ahead because of this. The food is really delicious, decent prices, big portions, and hot food. We got turkey wings, white rice, rice and peas, veggies, oxtails, and Mac n cheese. We enjoyed all of it and finished our plates! The veggies is pretty much just cabbage and the Mac is super good. You can get the turkey wings baked, grilled, fried, smothered, etc. but they said the two most popular were smothered and fried so we did smothered. The only complaint we had was that the turkey wing plate didn't have a lot of rice (we thought there'd be more under the wings but it was just that corner.) I'd definitely come back here and get the same thing or try the curry goat. They also have a large variety of different fruit juices and drinks! I definitely see why everyone likes this place. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Turkey Wings (smothered) with white rice and Mac n cheese - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

This is the 3rd time I've been there in 3 weeks, and the portions they give is not worth the price, the food is decent, but it cost me 9 dollars for a side of jerk chicken and it look like they cut up one piece of chicken into three pieces, and when I said where is the rest, they said you only get three pieces of chicken. No that was one piece cut into three. You try to support black businesses, but they be the ones screwing over their own people. read more

What a curteaous person. Beef pattie and kola champagne hit the spot !!! Will be back for more highly recommend this place! read more

Lee's Kitchen - Beef patty and kola champagne - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

This place has some really authentic and good Jamaican food with just the right amount of Soul Food in it. One of the best Jamaica food spots I have had, tasted like it came straight from Jamaica. read more

Lee's Kitchen - a plate of food - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

Foods getting worse by the day There's no love in the kitchen. You can tell there has been a shift the need to get a staff that are like minded and have a passion for food and family read more

Lee's Kitchen - Chicken wing fries n Mac cheese - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

Oh man.. if you've been in the Raleigh area for a while - good chances are you've heard about Lee's Kitchen. I've known of this spot for years, but finally tried it for the first time today - my only regret is not coming sooner! I got the curry chicken with rice and beans and Mac n cheese. Perfectly seasoned, great portions for the price ($8.95 lunch tray) ... I thoroughly enjoyed this meal. Boyfriend got the brown stew - something he said is also really good! No indoor seating available, take out only. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Brown Stew Chicken - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

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This place is expensive for the portion size. Mix between soul food and jamican seasoning (I'm guessing that's why it's so dark, I have no idea) But I can't lie the food is good. The service is a 1! Employees aren't professional or friendly nor do they make your order when you call ahead IF they don't have it off the hook. I've had other jamican restaurants in the city & theirs still tastes the best, unfortunately. So I suck it up when I need my fix lol hopefully it gets better. read more

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One star is being generous. We ordered oxtails and received beef stew chunks of beef that were tough and extremely salty. More disgraceful than the food was the service and the price! They will never get another dime of my money. The place once had good food at a decent price but it definitely changed. Don't waste your time or money. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

The oxtail's aren't worth $20.00, they are thin and mostly fat. They only give you 5 which included the small broken off piece and one big piece of fat. Just poor quality meat, period. The flavor was ok, but I've had better. It came with a rice of choice and mixed vegetables. All the sides were bland... bland, bland. Especially the mixed vegetables. I added a size of Mac and cheese, I shouldn't have because i could have done without it. The only thing I really enjoyed was the cornbread and the fact I didn't have to wait in the long line they usually have. Overall, it was they overpriced total of $28.00 and underdelivered... maybe someone else would like it, but not my tastebuds. I'll stick to Golden Crust for now read more

Lee's Kitchen - Oxtail* - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

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I had heard several mixed reviews about Lee's kitchen before making a last minute decision to check it out for myself. My daughter and I were in the area and had a taste for beef patties, literally 5 minutes away. It's was around 1pm on a Saturday afternoon and they were out of beef patties, but had chicken, so that was fine. My daughter decided while she was there she also wanted a Curry Goat plate, which came with 2 sides, so she had the Mac and cheese and collard greens. The chicken patty was delicious, I wish I would've gotten 2. The curry goat plate was plentiful, but my daughter said it was just ok and she didn't finish it. I'd go back again for the patties, and maybe try the goat or the chicken. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Curry Goat, Plantains, Collard Greens, Macaroni & Cheese - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

Good but spicy as hell!!! Jerk chicken is SPICY!! have some milk ready... everything else was good though- I got jerk chicken rice and beans and cabbage read more

This is a lousy, pseudo-jamaican restaurant, with an extremely poor management. They never answer the phone for placing orders, which forces diners to queue long minutes, and the app/online ordering tool doesn't show all the menu options. Poor kitchen management obliges also to wait forever for the food. There are much better options for true Jamaican food in the area. The food? Prepared by amateurs who clearly have never set foot in Jamaica. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Waiting area due to COVID-19... and poor restaurant management!!! - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

I just moved here from NYC and was so sad to see that golden crust was the only Caribbean food option on uber eats. Yesterday i saw this place for the first time and I'm so glad i ordered from Lee's Kitchen. This food is sooooo good. Not the 100% authentic type Jamaican I get back in Brooklyn but still very very delicious. The rice and peas were perfection! The oxtails were tender and flavorful. The gravy on the pork chop broke but it was still delicious! And the food came with a lovely note! I 1000% recommend Lee's Kitchen. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Smothered pork chop with macaroni and cheese and collards. - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

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I literally live for their oxtails, however, today when I ordered them it was like they were old. like reheated and served and it was like that for the collard greens too!! yea.... I don't like that read more

Omgggggg, this curry chicken dinner from Lee's was the bomb! This is definitely the best curry chicken that I've had in the Raleigh-Durham area. The Mac and cheese was great too, and I'm usually not a fan of the Mac and cheese from other Caribbean spots around here. My only complaint would be that they don't really answer there phone so you can't order ahead. It's worth the wait though! read more

Lee's Kitchen - Curry Chicken - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

Go to golden Krust. This place is trash. Sometimes the food can be decent or it will fall short. If you don't mind spending your money on inconsistency visit lees. Service is trash. Why they take online orders is beyond me. The owner needs to understand the wait time is long bc they don't have a flow in place. I watched an employee walk outside to king chef with his gloves on and walked right back into lees with the same gloves still on! Not once did he take them off. I don't see this place lasting much longer. read more

It's gonna be a no for me dawg. I had the taste for soul food and stopped in for lunch. Tried the turkey wing with mac, yams, and collards. The teams were fantastic. The collards-jam packed with salt. The macaroni and cheese was dry and had nutmeg in it, and a lot of it. No thank you. The wing was fried hard and a little dry. Some people like their wings that way, I'm just not one of them. Very popular spot, but not my cup o tea. read more

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I've been passing this place, this strip mall, for years. Big huge mistake. I actually stopped in with my wife to a different restaurant that we were going to try. But we saw "JAMAICAN" on a sign across the parking lot, looked at each other and smiled. We changed our plans on the fly and walked over to Lee's. Look, when you walk in, there's not much to see. There's standing room for half a dozen or so customers, a few drink coolers, and some loud hip-hop playing. The staff all smiled when we came in, greeted us sincerely, and one asked if we'd been there before, if we had any questions. There was a cafeteria style spread of food, we asked how it works. You pick a meat, two sides, and it comes with two plantains on top of that. I got the curried chicken with yams and red beans & rice. She got the jerk chicken with collards and mac-n-cheese. It all gets served in a partitioned styrofoam takeout tray. The portions are generous. They keep adding meat almost like they are playing Tetris. "How much can I fit in here and still close the lid?" Let me tell you, I walked in to Lee's feeling a little down about how my day was going. I got back to my car and we didn't even wait to get it home. We just dug in, right there in the car. And we tried each other's foods so I got a bit of a taste of everything in our two lunch orders. Everything was so good. Even the collards. And I don't normally like collards. I'm pretty sure it was cooked with pork, so if you're a vegetarian or vegan, this is probably NOT the place for you. And it was spicy. Not crazy spicy, not like Thai food. But I'm pretty accustomed to spicy foods and my eyes did get a little watery, and my nose a little sniffly. It was definitely clearing me out. Look, this place is not much to look at. It's not a restaurant. It's not about ambiance or any schtick. It's just a place where you go in you get one or more styrofoam boxed filled with amazing food, and you GET OUT and go somewhere that you can eat the food. That simple. The food is AWESOME. The people are friendly. There was a bit of a crowd in there ordering food (so it's got a following) but they moved people through pretty efficiently so you're not going to wait long. This is one of my new favorites. I will be back for sure. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Jerk chicken with collards, mac & cheese, plantains - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

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I had the curry goat and it was really good. It was lunch time and the service was fast and friendly! I will definitely be back.

Have always passed by this place off Capital Blvd but it never crossed my mind to give it a try until now. And I'm glad I did! I was looking for a local place that offered authentic southern cuisine to try out while I was still in town and ran across Lee's Kitchen. Fairly small shop that primarily serves food on the go (or so it seems). They have a buffet style set up in which a team of people prepare your order in a decent amount of time. As for my order: The collard greens blew my mind with the amount of flavor it had. Mac n cheese, well, you can never go wrong with that. Very flavorful! The BBQ chicken in my opinion was quite dry with some bitter flavors from the burnt sauce I assume but overall a delicious meal. The portion was quite hefty as well. I plan on visiting again next time I'm in town to try out their Caribbean cuisine & will update this review accordingly! read more

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I was so disappointed with my meal... jerk chicken, cabbage, green beans and corn bread. The cabbage and greens had been cooked so much that it was super soft and unpleasant to look at, the jerk chicken was so black that it could possible be something else beside chicken. The corn bread was tastee, but you should name it corn bread pound cake. The taste of the meal was salty and hot, no other seasons could be identified. I ate only a small amount to keep my blood sugar balanced. Otherwise, I would have giving it all to the trash can. It will be a very long time, if ever, will I go to this restaurant again. I hope that what I ate doesn't make me sick. The price was $$. How can you stay in business serving food so disrespectful. read more

terrible. brown stew chicken was sweet it taste like a bucket load of syrup. the "cabbage" was frozen vegetables lacking seasoning. honestly the worst jamaican food i've ever encountered & the Jamaican cuisine should be stripped from their nature read more

Lee's Kitchen - Brown Stew Chicken - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

Im not big on Caribbean food but this was super good. I got the Brownstew Chicken, cabbage, and macaroni and cheese. The macaroni deserves 10 stars. It took a little while for the food to come but it was slightly busy and a Sunday. The staff was pleasant and worked as fast as they could. I will definitely be going back. read more

Stopped into Lee's Kitchen 3 nights ago for a take-away brown stew chicken dinner with plantains and mac'n cheese. No sooner then digging into the first bite of mac and I pull out a 3 inch by 3 inch industrial piece of plastic! How such a large peice of debris/choking hazard was missed and subsequently served to a guest is mind boggling! Absolutely dangerous, unsanitary and just all around gross. And I guess that puts the question to rest that their mac'n cheese is definitely not homemade. I reached out to the location with pics (not even asking for a refund) and description of the incident, so at minimum they could through out the contaminated batch before someone chokes to death, but they did not feel the need to respond. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Plastic debris in food! - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

So I have been going to Lee's for years now and I never had a bad experience until today. I drove across town in, friday evening traffic, on my lunch break just because I had a craving for curry chicken. Unfortunately when I sat down to eat my food (I got curry chicken, Mac and cheese, and collards) there was a WHOLE DEAD BEETLE IN MY GREENS!!!! I could have literally thrown up, I was so disgusted. The staff was very nice and gave me a full refund for my meal when I returned with my plate an hour later but unfortunately I will not be returning to Lee's when I have a craving for Caribbean food. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Caribbean Near Me - Raleigh, North Carolina

The Capital Blvd location is way better than their other location. The other location gave me a plate full of bones for oxtails. I hate to say it but in my opinion, Golden Krust is better. read more