Why Chicago Loves Garifuna Flava's Juicy Jerk Chicken
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2020
- Garifuna Flava is a Belizean restaurant on Chicago's Southwest Side famous for its jerk chicken. The restaurant is known for its blend of Caribbean, Latin, and Belizean cuisine, with dishes like red snapper, panades, and stew beans and pigtail. The Castillos came to Chicago from Belize in 1986. In 2008, they opened Garifuna Flava. The Castillos trace their own ancestry to the Garifuna people, who come from Central America and trace their ancestry to two Spanish slave shipwrecks in the West Indies. Today there are only about 500,000 Garifuna left, and the Castillos are working to keep the culture alive through the food.
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Why Chicago Loves Garifuna Flava's Juicy Jerk Chicken
Watched this, looked up the restaurant and realized it’s one mile from my work. I know what’s for lunch today!
How was it?
lol Look at you all happy n stuff 🤙🏾😂
Food insider changing people’s lives
It’s absolutely delicious, make sure to get panades with whatever you buy...their food is so good.
Lucky...👌👌👌
These guys used to cater at my job once a month as part of a rotation of restaurants from all over the city. Trust me when I say they were by far the office favorite. The jerk chicken, stew chicken, rice & beans, plantains and cabbage were all fantastic. People would literally make sure not to miss work when on days they were scheduled!
I have went to this restaurant countless times!!!! The food is scrumptious and especially love the ox tails, potato sslad, mac n cheese, beans and rice and delicious carmel cake. Also, cabbage delicious!!!!
I love Jamaican food my mom whole side of her family from kingston Jamaica and st croix and the Virgin Islands and came to miami and then the south bronx ny and then to saginaw mi.
Well im jamaican and live in kingston
@Mark Watson jerk chicken is synonymous with Jamaica. This restaurant is caribbean hence why they serve jerk chicken, but they do it in their own way so its not authentic to Jamaica.
@Mark Watson he told y’all what it was. Jerk Chicken Caribbean/Belizean style! 🤦🏽♂️
I tried Belizean food for the first time recently. It was amazing. It's definitely my favorite food among the Central American countries. Take my word for it and try it today!
Jerk is Jamaican and better
If you go to Belize you will find that every place there sells jerk chicken with rice and beans
Wow. This looks delicious. Great presenters also. Will definitely be there this week. Thanks for posting. Greetings and respect to all.
Fire is a key component of making good jerk chicken. It's not the same if you bake or grill in electric oven.
WHEN I USED LIQUID SMOKE IN MY OVEN BAKEDJERK CHiCKEN IT ADDED A WONDERFUL SMOKEY FLAVOR TO IT THAT HAD MY FAMILY LICKING THEIR FINGERS.
I bought my first grill just because I want to try it over charcoal...I love it rotisserie broiled in my Air Fryer but I know for sure that charcoal cant be beat
Proud Belizean 🇧🇿 🇧🇿 🇧🇿!!!!
Heard of this Belizean restaurant in LA? : ua-cam.com/video/KNHDr0nLxcA/v-deo.html
Where on earth is that?
Time to make a baby, hit me if you want to bread
For those who don’t understand, Garifuna is a cultural group within Central America and the Caribbean. They were displaced from the islands due to colonization and most migrated to the islands/mainlands of Central America and South America. The largest population being Belize. So if these recipes don’t look like “traditional jerk” know that Garifuna is a culture that is African in origin,Caribbean in conception and influence, and Spanish/English/Patois/Creole/Garifuna in language. As a Honduran\Bahamian I’m overjoyed that our culture is being spread. The African diaspora continues!
This looks soo good!!
Food Insider / Medha - there's also a large popular of Garifuna people in Honduras, Central America! I've done work in Honduras, and we worked with some Garifuna people. Very fun to see one of their foods featured on your channel!
Heard about this place when I lived in Chicago. Mad I never made my way there. Jerk Villa in the South Loop, and Ja' Grill in Hyde Park were my go too's for Jerk Chicken.
My Garifuna families from my Country 🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨St.Vincent and the Grenadines.
He dropped plenty nuggets here. Wishing him and his family all the best.
Jerk without scotch bonnet is Not jerk... big up to Belize just the same, such a beautifully country
I see the man put pepper in the thing
@steffan habanaro pepper is the wrong peppers to use to make jerk chicken it has to be
SCOTCH BONNET PEPPERS bo substitutes
I’m not Jamaican and I know that! I critique jerk chicken.
@@Jj-qz9dm Hababanero peppers and Scotch Bonnets are practically the same pepper with the later having a slightly sweeter taste.This is Garifuna jerk chicken,not Jamaican jerk chicken.
@@richlopez4466 No such thing nice try dude
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Moved away 3 years ago but I miss this place
Looks sooo good!! ... and they explain the cooking processes well ... makes you appreciate the chicken more 👍😊
I’ve lived in Chicago for 15 years and never heard of this place. Looks good though!
Born here. I haven't either
Greg Anderson they’ve got two locations now per Yelp. W. 63rd.
Lewis looks like N. Clinton has the latest location while W. 63rd has the original location. *Let us know how good they are and what’s best to order*
There food is really good, so if you can you should try it. I have only gone to the W 63rd though
I passed there a million times but never went there. It’s probably because it’s right off western, and we all know it’s extremely active over there. Definitely not a place you’d just be passing through on some random shit
Woooooowwwwww
Very tasty sooooo yummy
Thanks for sharing my friend
I really love jerk chicken are my best favorite!! I'm half Jamaican and half Grenada! 🔥🍗🇯🇲🇬🇩
I tried Jamaican food recently at Sattdown in LA. Amazing. Very similar to Belizean food. Some jerk chicken, braised oxtail, and festival bread hit the spot!
WOW that really cool area and mine was NJ and NY has many Jamaican food restaurant are greatest ever had since I was a childhood.
@@joshuagabriel5528 Cool man. Good to know that NY has great Jamaican spots. I cover a lot of LA restaurants on my vlog. Follow and keep in touch. I might need your suggestions someday i travel to Jersey
@@RockstarEater I watch your chanel. Will look out for the episode.👊
Rockstar Eater they food is similar to Jamaican food because a lot of Jamaicans live there
I’ve never tried jerk chicken before and this looks SO GOOD!🥺
Vannie Eats
If that one look nice...
U must try this one 😋
ua-cam.com/video/TG-137fMMo0/v-deo.html
Cheers ✌🏼
It is!
I agree it really does
Jamaican jerk chicken is the best and the real thing. Go to Jamaica!
It's not JERK. jerk is traditionally Jamaican only. There is a lot history behind jerk , it not just about food
Keeping their own style looks so cool. Keep it up! 👍
I've been telling people about this place for years. I visited around the time they first opened I loved their beef stew jerk chicken and their stew chicken. Don't understand why they took the stew beef off the menu but the oxtails were amazing also. They are great people they toured us around the restaurant met the cook and saw the banquet hall they rent out and cater next door. They are absolutely amazing please take the time to visit this place if you haven't yet 💯
I used buypimentowood chips. These wood chips have a rich, pristine, and nourishing fragrance, just the way I like. For two months, I've been baking and grilling different meats.
This is awesome. My man here is the slowest talking and moving chef I have ever seen. Maybe that's the secret.
Looks Delicious !!
I’m from Chicago, I’ve seen many jerk places. I haven’t heard about that one. but I just had some bad jerk chicken by my house and I’m definitely going to check his store out.
I Agree. This is the best authentic food I've ever tasted in my life..its EXTREMLY Good.. I wish I live closer.
AWESOME
looks amazing
I use Boston bay seasoning both dry and wet it’s really good and I soak allspice berries and put them on the coals then I put the chicken on.
best food in chicago hands down
Looks so delicious 😋
Food looks 💣 💣 💣
Chicago has some of the best food in the world. 💯
Mouth watering good spice
Amazing jerk chicken, drove there after I saw it on DDD a few years back. Tasty.
Very good
They would have an exhibition restaurant at our work and these guys would come by and I'd get jerk chicken w red beans and rice....followed by the caramel pound cake. The best!
Well done 👍👌 👏 nice 😍 good luck 👍
Not too sure, habanero is the cousin of scotch bonnet but bonnet is used in Caribbean cooking the most. Also not hating but the jerk seasoning looks like the one from the jar!
I thought the same.
I use walkerswood and so does my dad here in the UK.
Some caribbean but primarily jamaican other countries use more other peppers like habenero scotch bonnet is number one in JA
These jerk chicken looks juicier grilled than what I get at Nandos
Nandos is dry the sauce and smoke flavour carries it
Nando’s isn’t jerk chicken tho
Lol, Nandos South Africa has jerk chicken, cause we are their favorite country.
Nice always a go to chicken.
COOL !!!!
He knows what hes doing this man
Jerk chicken is done with a great deal of love, and done with feeling from the heart,I have to go back one more time to try the jerk chicken.are send a plate to me,I’ll pay for it to come to California.
surprised he didnt use scotch bonnet instead of habanero. looks great though
Think it's harder to get
I think they're the same just different names
aren't they one and the same?
We get loads imported to the UK probably cos we have a bigger Jamaican population
@@thomasholton1261 😂 no 2 completely different chillies
Where my Jamaicans at? 🇯🇲
Caribbean islands. I actually went to one recently. Great food!
Mi dehya✔
Here from Kingston
deh yah end
My mother is Jamaican! 🇯🇲
Crazy everybody takes a piece of my birth place smiling to see how were honerd around the world with our culture
Looks good
This restaurant always has a booth at the Taste of Chicago. I order the panades every yr
Zion’s Beach pop up in LA has amazing jerk chicken as well.
West Indian here…scotch bonnet are hard to find in the states so we substitute with habanero two sides of the same coin
Quit lying Chicago has huge Jamaican population you can find scotch bonnet peppers in many places they are choosing to use lesser habanero flavour
Never heard of this place but now I wanna try it and Jerk48
Everybody gonna overlook the the old shelf used to cook on.
Jerk chicken is amazing
I never tried that before but i think that it will be delicious
Fingering Things ✔️ finger a potato
Fingering jerk chicken. I'LL WAIT👍
@@jaymewillett1675 hahaha I'll wait for that also
Looks tasty. I love jerk chicken, but don't like it really hot. So, I don't put the pepper in when I make it, but this way might work for those like me who like mild to medium heat.
It's located in a really nice part of town.
Wow that looks delicious!
This looks soooooo delicious.
Wish I could reach into my computer screen, grab a piece and dig in. When I'm in Chicago again I need to stop by and try Garifuna Flava.
You'll eat it someday. I believe in you! Remember me when you do =)
I love jerk chicken on charcoal ohh its so good at my favorite restruant i get he oxtail gravy to bomb
Scotch bonnet is jamaica..in central america we use habanero and chile panameño..very similar tho. Also..fat white lady at the end..her intentions were good, but she said something along the lines of, "they want to share their ppl and their island". This family is from Belize..which is not an island lol. Fact is, too, tho, this food is all over the Caribbean coast of Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, & Panama
I'm currently doing a Caribbean food tour for my show. I totally see the similarities!
They basically the same pepper, people always want to claim everything dammit,what has this world come to
@@RockstarEater you should visit Chicago and check out Garifuna Flava
Pepper and cocoa is from central America and mexico used and cultivated first by Mayan.
@@janetcortez6266 how u doin
Central America represent!!! 🙌🙌🙌
07:01
It got me wander somehere..
Nice
Chef knows his craft if he can tell by the weight of the chicken alone if it's done. Wish I could have that jerk chicken right now!
Man that's some nice stuff
Great food , I live about 7 mins from this restaurant
I moved away 3 years ago, but this is the best jerk chicken
That grill set up is godly
Good customer service? Accommodating? Polite? Welcoming? You know from that description that this can’t be a Jamaican restaurant. Bad customer service is a staple with Jamaican businesses for the most part. Big up to my peeps from Belize, glad your restaurant is getting some shine. The next time I’m in Chicago I will definitely drop buy and check it out.
what kind of lump charcoal do you think they use?
Haffi ave Ting!
Heyyyyy belizean in dah house! Proud to see my ppl making it! Yess dis is belizean jerk chicken not jamaican but its definitely inspired by d jamaican one! One love!
Inspired?...there is no difference at all...so you cannot call it inspired...here in Jamaica that's exactly how it is done...except we use scotch bonnet pepper instead of habanero
@@yvonnepowell6779 jerk chicken is Jamaican as far as ik...and if s Jamaicans say one ingredient makes it not Jamaican who am I to argue?
@@Mrs8thdeadlysin its not as far as you know its simply a fact anyone of any nationality can make any food from any another nation but it doesn't mean they originated it no one had any version of jerk only jamaica other places had other things that was grilled/smoke/roasted meat but the jerk grilled/smoked meat is what makes it jamaican just like tacos are mexican undeniably
Dem lef out jamaica more credit needed
The owner is Belizean. This is not a Jamaican restaurant, it's a Belizean restaurant. Watch the video again and listen this time.
@@prettyqueen573 Yet they're serving Jamaican food. Jerk originated in Jamaica, it (jerk chicken) was used in the title and the entire video is basically about it so you would think that the video would mention Jamaica a bit more.
@@eyelandgal Well actually there is a group of historical Jamaicans living in Belize. They brought a lot of the recipes with them and now it's mixed with the local cuisine. This is what this video is highlighting.
@@clovemartin I know that Belize has a significant Jamaican population but this video doesn't really talk about the mixture of the different cultures, it briefly mentions that this restaurant serves Caribbean cuisine but the main focus is the Jamaican Jerk chicken.
@@eyelandgal The same way you'll never see a video by Jamaicans cooking curried goat or roti talking about the influence from India. There are tons of food that we eat that we have borrowed from other cultures and we never give them credit. Jamaicans are always happy to take all the credit.
Aye it's my country Belize
Shout out to my man Ralo who turned me on to jerk chicken years ago, I been loving it ever since.
That food looks soo good 🥺🤤
Bruh moment
Its Rice and peas not Rice and beans
According to a rap song, I can’t go to 63rd ... lol
Jk just youngins joke 😂
la gente garifuna de 🇬🇹
Yo wah gwan!!
dude is out here grilling on a Metro rack
I SEEN THOSE SHELVES IN THE MEAT DEPARTMENT OF MY LOCAL SUPERMARKET!! AND THIS DUDE IS TURNING OUT JERK CHICKEN ON THEM.
Awesome ❤️
I love jerk chicken all Jamaican food
It is perfect! 👍🏻👍🏻
habaneros instead of scotch bonnets you say....
right! I was shocked...
I was shocked as well
Good recipe
Jerk chicken is very good
Damn..
that chicken look raw asf
Jerk chicken Jamaica thing🤔
Yes it is, that just tried to pass it as their thing
@@tabithawilson5586 Belize is literally a melting pot of diverse cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, etc. certain aspects of food are so heavily incorporated within our Belizean culture dating back many years that we don’t see it as “Jamaican Jerk chicken” just “jerk chicken”. Just look up Belize and maybe you’ll understand how diverse and deeply influenced it is
@@joshuagomez8377 nothing like Jamaican jerk chicken, Belize teef it and call it theirs, not even done how I know it should be
@Mark Watson every caribbean country though we have similarities have certain things that is specific to that one country. There are alot of things that's specific to just belize so when u mention it then everyone knows it belizean. In trinidad doubles is specific to them...for jamaica its Jerk and Ackee and saltfish. Anyone who hears jerk chicken would not think of anywhere but Jamaica. So its shocking that they would make jerk their key item and not sumn more specific to Belize. But then again when u have jerk u will get alot of persons coming to your restaurant
It looks delicious. This is Jerk Flavoured Chicken. True Jerk must be cooked over Pimento Wood & have Scotch Bonnets in the marinade.
😊
Love Jerk Chicken. Smoky and spicy!
Ever seen this Belizean restaurant? ua-cam.com/video/KNHDr0nLxcA/v-deo.html
@@RockstarEater No, but I'm not that close to LA, and with COVID, I haven't been there in months.
Notice how the chief is marinating his chicken in the sink? 🤦🏽♂️
Did not feel that prep pon sink seems off
Where is this place located
This place is fire!!! They have one of the best jerk chicken restaurants in Chicago!!! Chicken is always on point! Always taste good, never disappoint. It is waaaaaaay better than that other place.....what’s it name, oh yeah, Jerk Taco Man lol
Is jerk seasoning specific origins from Jamaica?. Chicago Lawn, Chicago. 3:05-3:10 according from the United States Census Bureau there are 963,930 Garifuna-Americans (1/7/2018). 6:17-6:19 not Rice and Beans but Rice and Peas.
Yes jerk is jamaican the name and cooking was passed to the Africans from the Indigenous people of Jamaica aka Xaymaca cooking the food underground
I heard its to die for....