Caribbean Delight
610-770-9832
There’s
south, and then there’s
south. The
friendly chefs at Caribbean Delight fry up soul food
and Jamaican fare—so you can get your curry goat ($7)
with a side of collard greens ($2). The xeroxed menu
divides straight down the middle, but it’s all cheap.
Frightfully cheap, actually: The delicious jerk
chicken dinner is only $8, and comes with salad and a
steaming pile of rice and peas. Soul food, too: With
the fried chicken platter ($8)—greasy and proud—you
get two sides (yams, for example, or mac &
cheese) and cornbread. The place is definitely
dress-down (when in Jamaica...), festooned with
kitschy island decor. Tissue-paper palm trees crowd
the ship-style wood panelling, as a giant, smiling
Bob Marley mural overlooks the modest, plastic-topped
tables. It’s not spring break exactly, but it’s as
close as you’ll get in Allentown. (Open M-W 11a-9p;
Th-F 11a-11p; Sa noon-11p; Su
1p-9p.)