Next to the Constant Spring Golf Club, Pepper Thyme (noon-9pm Sun.-Tues., 11am- 11pm Wed.-Sat.) is a jerk pit serving jerk chicken (from US$5) and port (from US$6) accompanied by festival, breadfruit, and rice-and-peas. The large open-air venue has a number of circular thatch-roofed eating areas and a large bar.
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Jerk
Kingston
Ire Jerk and Seafood Restaurant
Irie Jerk Centre: Serves fried and jerk chicken (US$2/piece, quater chicken For US$4 and whole US$15) and pork for US$9/lb and beer US$2.
Scotchie's
Scotchie's (11 a.m.\11 p.m daily, US$4\11) is easily the best jerk in Jamaica, serving pork, chicken, and steamed fish. Sides include breadfruit, festival, and yam. Scotchie's was forced to move back from the expanded highway and took the opportunity to redesign the dining area, adding a nice bar in the open-air courtyard. Scotchie's founder Tony Rerrie used to have parties where he would bring a master jerk chef from Boston Bay in Portland, where locals claim jerk originated, and patrons would beg him to make the jerk offering a regular thing.
Sweetwood Jerk Joint
Sweetwood Jerk Joint serves jerk pork, sausage, chicken, lamb, conch, and roast fish, prepared on a coal-fired pit smoked with sweetwood and seasoned with Scotch Bonnet peppers (11:30 a.m.–10 p.m. daily) .