Irie Jamaican Style Restaurant

"A $10 “medium” will cover you for two or three meals at this counter-service Jamaican spot in Dorchester. The stewed chicken is one of our favorite chicken dishes in the city, and it’ll fill you up at dinner and again for whatever that meal is when it’s 11:30pm, you’re watching Top Gun on CMT, and you just realized you had a little bit more to drink than you thought, and now you need to preemptively fight a hangover with water and whatever’s in your fridge." - dan secatore

"Living near Irie Jamaican Style Restaurant, a counter-service spot in Ashmont with reggae you can hear down the block, would be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you’d cut your dining bill in half by stopping at this shockingly affordable Jamaican spot at least three times a week. On the other hand, you’d slowly lose your already tenuous grip on your sanity trying to decide whether the jerk chicken or stewed chicken is the best thing on the menu. It’s a risk worth taking." - dan secatore

"You might need to shout over blasting reggae music to order at this small counter-service spot in Ashmont, but don’t let that stop you. The oxtail is tender and perfectly fatty, the jerk chicken is legitimately spicy and robust, and the stewed chicken would be an annual contender in the Boston ChickenFest that doesn’t exist but definitely should." - Dan Secatore