CARIBBEAN SOUL – Restaurant

Two floors on Merrick Boulevard in Queens: an intimate dining room downstairs, a lounge and covered open-air rooftop above, heated for the cold months. DJs run reggae and R&B, and a live jazz band takes Fridays. The kitchen gives bar classics an island turn, with jerk fries under creamy sauce, cod fritters and avocado habanero tartare, escovitch calamari, bang bang shrimp and lobster mac and cheese baked in cast iron. Mains mean braised oxtail, curry goat, jerk chicken breast, curried Trench Town shrimp and snow crab legs in lemon butter. Wings come lemon pepper or jerk. Late nights, proper cooking.

Cuisine: Restaurant