Pimento Jamaican Kitchen & Rum Bar
Jamaican restaurant · Whittier
2524 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
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Highlights
Jerk chicken, oxtail, rum bar, live music, and community events.
Jerk chicken, oxtail, rum bar, live music, and community events.
"Pimento Jamaican Kitchen’s atmosphere is always sort of buzzing, which is what you’d expect from a place that has an adjacent bar chock-full of Jamaican rums and dancehall music on Friday nights. Their counter-service menu lets you build a meal, but the move is the braised oxtail with the Kingston Kick sauce if you just need to feel something during the Minneapolis winter. Or, you can settle for the MN Nice sauce if you’re wanting a medium-heat level hot condiment that won’t require milk to cool things down. When it’s nice out, pick a table closer to the front windows which are actually a garage door that opens up onto Nicollet Avenue and lets a fresh breeze in. " - stacy brooks
"Chef Tomme Beevas and his neighbor Yoni Reinharz started their Jamaican restaurant Pimento as a pop-up in 2012, carting Beevas’s backyard grill around the city; in 2013, they won Food Network’s Food Court Wars. During the social uprisings of 2020, Pimento operated a robust mutual aid network out of its restaurant space. Today, Beevas continues to serve as a community leader with Pimento Relief Services, a nonprofit he runs that supports healing and long-term rebuilding in Black communities. The menu features entrees like Kingston-style jerk chicken, slow-roasted jerk pork, curry veggies, and braised oxtail, all served on a bed of seasoned rice and beans with slaw and plantains, dressed with a selection of house-made sauces. Make sure to try the sweet, pillowy coco bread, too. The rum bar often hosts live music and other events on the weekends." - Eater Staff
"Pimento is a pillar of Jamaican cuisine in the Twin Cities, and a popular resident of Nicollet Avenue’s Eat Street. Chef Tomme Beevas and his neighbor Yoni Reinharz started Pimento as a pop-up in 2012, carting Beevas’s backyard grill around the city; in 2013, they won Food Network’s Food Court Wars. During the social uprisings of 2020, Pimento operated a robust mutual aid network out of its restaurant space. Today, Beevas continues to serve as a community leader with Pimento Relief Services, a nonprofit he runs that supports healing and long-term rebuilding in Black communities. The menu features entrees like Kingston-style jerk chicken, slow-roasted jerk pork, curry veggies, and braised oxtail, all served on a bed of seasoned rice and beans with slaw and plantains, dressed with a selection of house-made sauces. Make sure to try the sweet, pillowy coco bread, too. The rum bar often hosts live music and other events on the weekends." - Eater Staff
"Rum, reggae, and Jamaican cuisine all converge at Pimento, one of Eat Street’s cornerstone restaurants. Chef Tomme Beevas’s menu hits some fiery notes, from the slow-roasted jerk pork to braised oxtail, all served with house-made sauces — but each dish is tempered with a side of starchy sweet plantains and coconut rice. On the weekend, Pimento’s rum bar serves a signature punch and hosts local DJs and musicians for dance nights." - Natalia Mendez
"A restaurant on Minneapolis’s Eat Street that was converted into a donation center during the protests, feeding frontline demonstrators and residents affected by demonstrations. The owners and staff distributed essential supplies — water, masks, gloves and other donations — earned national media attention for the effort, and received local support that helped protect the business from white supremacist threats; staff framed the work as community care in response to the hazards faced by Black people under systemic violence." - Nick Mancall-Bitel
