Where to Eat Jamaican Food in Liverpool (2026)
Jamaican food is jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, ackee and saltfish, rice and peas and patties, and Liverpool has restaurants and takeaways serving all of it. Here is what the food is, where to eat it, and where to buy the ingredients to cook it yourself.
African Stores Editorial Team
The short answer
Jamaican food is the warm, spiced Caribbean cooking of jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, ackee and saltfish, rice and peas and patties, and Liverpool has a good spread of places serving it. For a sit-down meal or a takeaway try Dee Delicious in Anfield, Mo'Bay Shack on Smithdown Road, Jerk Junction in Liverpool ONE, Bon Manje in Tuebrook or Raggas on Smithdown Road, and if you want to cook it yourself the food shops around Granby Street stock the ingredients. You can find more African and Caribbean restaurants and food shops near you on African Stores.
What to remember
- Jamaican food covers jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, ackee and saltfish, rice and peas, patties, festival and hard dough bread.
- Liverpool has a mix of dedicated Jamaican and wider Afro-Caribbean kitchens, from small takeaways to the well known Turtle Bay chain.
- Smithdown Road and the Toxteth and Anfield areas are the strongest parts of the city for Caribbean cooking.
- To cook Jamaican food at home you can buy the ingredients at Granby Supermarkets and the city's African and Caribbean food shops.
- Ratings and opening hours change, so it is always worth a quick call before you travel.
Few things say home quite like the smell of jerk chicken over the grill, the slow richness of a pot of oxtail, or the Sunday warmth of rice and peas cooked in coconut milk. Jamaican food is generous, unhurried cooking, built on scotch bonnet heat, allspice, thyme and long simmering, and it carries the memory of family kitchens and weekend gatherings wherever it lands. For the Caribbean community in Liverpool, and for anyone who has grown to love the food, that taste is very much alive across the city.
Liverpool has a long Caribbean history, and you can taste it in the kitchens dotted from Anfield down to Smithdown Road and the streets of Toxteth. Some places are proper sit-down restaurants, others are small takeaways where the food is packed hot into a box, and a few of the food shops cook and sell hot plates alongside the groceries. Whether you fancy a plate of curry goat, a jerk box on the way home, or the ingredients to make it all yourself, this guide covers the food itself, where to eat it, and where to shop for it.
What Jamaican Food Actually Is
Jamaican food is the best known of the Caribbean cuisines, a bold, warmly spiced style of cooking shaped by African, Indian, Spanish and British influences over generations. Its signature is jerk, meat rubbed or marinated with scotch bonnet, allspice, thyme, ginger and spring onion, then grilled or slow cooked until smoky and tender. Jerk chicken is the dish most people know, but jerk pork and jerk fish are just as loved. If you want the fuller picture, our guides to Jamaican food and the wider world of Caribbean food go into more detail.
Beyond jerk, the heart of the menu is the slow-cooked meats and stews. Curry goat, rich with Caribbean curry powder and scotch bonnet, and oxtail, braised for hours with butter beans until it falls off the bone, are the two dishes people judge a Jamaican kitchen by. Ackee and saltfish, the national dish, pairs the soft, buttery ackee fruit with salted cod for a savoury breakfast or main. Alongside these come the staples that make a plate complete: rice and peas cooked with kidney beans and coconut milk, fried plantain, festival, the slightly sweet fried dumplings, hard dough bread, and the flaky, spiced Jamaican patty eaten on its own or in a coco bread.
Where to Eat Jamaican Food in Liverpool
Liverpool has a genuine spread of Caribbean kitchens, from dedicated Jamaican takeaways to broader Afro-Caribbean restaurants that put jerk, curry goat and oxtail front and centre. Here are the places to know, each with its Google rating as at the August 2026 verification.
Dee Delicious AfroCaribbean Restaurant is an Anfield favourite doing both dine in and takeaway, and it holds a perfect 5.0 on Google from 36 reviews. You will find it at 112 Breck Rd, Anfield, Liverpool L4 2RD.
Mo'Bay Shack on Smithdown Road is a Jamaican spot for eating in or taking away, with an excellent 4.8 on Google from 45 reviews. You will find it at 551 Smithdown Rd, Liverpool L15 5AF.
Turtle Bay is the well known Caribbean chain, useful for a lively sit-down meal and cocktails, and it holds a 4.8 on Google. It has two Liverpool sites, at 59 to 61 Hanover St, Liverpool L1 3DY and 6A Victoria St, Liverpool L2 6QE.
Jerk Junction Liverpool ONE brings Jamaican food to the city centre, rated 4.7 on Google from 214 reviews. You will find it at 14 Paradise St, The Terrace, Liverpool L1 8JF.
Bon Manje in Tuebrook is an Afro-Caribbean kitchen doing dine in and takeaway, with a 4.5 on Google from 101 reviews. You will find it at 2d Marlborough Rd, Tuebrook, Liverpool L13 8DZ.
Raggas Caribbean Cafe is a long established Liverpool Caribbean spot on Smithdown Road, with a 4.4 on Google from 386 reviews, one of the most reviewed Caribbean places in the city. You will find it at 58 Smithdown Rd, Toxteth, Liverpool L7 4JG.
Yahusha Palm Catering and Takeaway offers takeaway and catering, and holds a 5.0 on Google from 5 reviews. You will find it at 8 Westmorland Dr, Liverpool L3 6LR.
Where to Buy Jamaican Ingredients in Liverpool
Half the joy of Jamaican food is cooking it yourself, and Liverpool makes that easy. The city's African and Caribbean food shops stock the scotch bonnets, allspice, Caribbean curry powder, kidney beans, coconut milk, hard dough bread, saltfish, ackee, plantain and the meats you need for a proper pot.
Granby Supermarkets on Granby Street is a good place to start, a community store rated 4.5 on Google from 66 reviews that sells Caribbean groceries and hot food. You will find it at 83 Granby St, Liverpool L8 2XA. Beyond it, the streets around Granby, Lodge Lane and Smithdown Road hold the city's densest cluster of Caribbean and African grocers, so it is worth a wander to see what is fresh. To find the shop nearest you, see African food stores in Liverpool.
How We Put This Together
We hold data on the African and Caribbean businesses across Merseyside and pulled out the Liverpool places serving Jamaican and Caribbean food, keeping only ones that are genuinely trading and reading the reviews so the strengths we mention are the ones people actually value. The ratings and review counts here were checked at the August 2026 verification, and we quote them exactly as Google shows them. Ratings move and small kitchens change their hours, so it is always worth a quick call before you travel.
Where to Find Jamaican Food Near You
Smithdown Road, Toxteth and Anfield are the strongest parts of Liverpool for Caribbean cooking, with the city centre covered by Jerk Junction and Turtle Bay. Whether you want a plate of curry goat and rice and peas, a jerk box to take home, or the ingredients to cook it all yourself, it is close by. To find more African and Caribbean restaurants near you and African food stores in Liverpool, African Stores lists them wherever you are.
Frequently asked questions
What is Jamaican food?
Jamaican food is the warmly spiced cooking of Jamaica, shaped by African, Indian, Spanish and British influences. Its best known dishes are jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail and ackee and saltfish, usually served with rice and peas, fried plantain and festival, along with patties and hard dough bread. Scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme give it its signature flavour.
Where can I eat Jamaican food in Liverpool?
Liverpool has several Caribbean kitchens serving Jamaican food. Dee Delicious in Anfield, Mo'Bay Shack and Raggas on Smithdown Road, Bon Manje in Tuebrook, Jerk Junction in Liverpool ONE and the Turtle Bay chain all serve jerk, curry goat and other Caribbean dishes, and Yahusha Palm offers takeaway and catering.
Where is the best Jamaican takeaway in Liverpool?
There are several well rated Jamaican and Afro-Caribbean takeaways in Liverpool. Dee Delicious in Anfield and Mo'Bay Shack on Smithdown Road both do dine in and takeaway and hold very high Google ratings, while Yahusha Palm offers takeaway and catering. Bon Manje in Tuebrook is another takeaway option.
Where can I buy Jamaican ingredients in Liverpool?
The African and Caribbean food shops around Granby Street, Lodge Lane and Smithdown Road stock Jamaican ingredients such as scotch bonnets, allspice, saltfish, ackee, hard dough bread, plantain and Caribbean curry powder. Granby Supermarkets on Granby Street is a good starting point for Caribbean groceries.
How can I find Jamaican and Caribbean food near me in Liverpool?
African Stores lists African and Caribbean restaurants, takeaways and food shops across Liverpool and the rest of Merseyside, so you can find the ones nearest you wherever you are, whether you want to eat out or buy the ingredients to cook at home.
