B & M Market
Jamaican restaurant · Little River
219 NE 79th St, Miami, FL 33138
Highlights
Jamaican classics like jerk chicken, oxtail, and roti.
Jamaican classics like jerk chicken, oxtail, and roti.
"Pop your head into the kitchen at this Caribbean market. It’s located at the back, and that’s where you’ll find the chef cooking oxtail, curry goat, roti, and possibly an exciting daily special, like cow foot soup. Tell her what you want and she’ll disappear before emerging moments later with a slowly stewed meat sitting on a pile of rice and peas, or wrapped tightly in a warm roti. You can also place an order online in advance, but interaction is half the fun at B&M. How else would you find out that the chef bottles and sells her own pepper sauce? Take home a bottle and have tissues nearby." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
"Don't let this light-less, bare-bones bodega fool you - in the back they're cooking up some of the best Guyanese and West Indian fare north of the Caribbean. Jerk chicken, ackee and salt fish, and curry goat are all available, but roti is the name of this game. Available in chicken, goat, vegetable, and seafood variations, they all pair well with the homemade hot sauce (dispensed in salad dressing containers.) Grab a Ting from the fridge to ease the burn and some tamarind candies for a post-lunch treat, and you're all set." - Matthew Vander Werff & Ashley Melisse Abess
"B&M Market makes some of the best West Indian food Miami has to offer. This place is on 79th Street and is part restaurant/part bodega. The standard jerk chicken here is awesome, but the real move is to order the jerk chicken roti. Do that and you’ll get chunks of B&M’s spicy jerk chicken wrapped inside an unbelievably good roti. The whole thing looks a little like a burrito and is one of the best lunch ideas around." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo
"On the shelves of B&M Market, you’ll find a row of mason jars filled with a crimson liquid dotted with pepper seeds. The unnamed Caribbean pepper sauce is made and bottled in-house by B&M’s chef. It is her own proprietary blend and it is an addictively painful masterpiece. It’s just as flavorful as it is spicy (and it is very spicy). There’s a quick slap of heat up front followed by a savory burn that lingers for a few moments before you inevitably spoon more of it over whatever you’re eating. It goes great on B&M’s oxtail and ackee and saltfish. But it also deserves to become a permanent fixture in your refrigerator." - ryan pfeffer, mariana trabanino, virginia otazo
"B&M Market looks like just another bodega when you're driving down 79th Street, but this place also serves some of Miami's best West Indian food from its tiny kitchen. Walk to the back of the store and you'll see people waiting for their ackee and saltfish, oxtail stew, and some of Miami’s best roti. To place an order, just stick your head into the kitchen and let the chef know what you want (or place a takeout order in advance online)." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo
