Located in the northwest
corner of Coral Point Plaza near Walgreens and Block Buster Video
just off State Road 7 in Margate in Greater Fort Lauderdale,
Florida is a new bakery and eat-in take-out restaurant that will
impress you with the quality of the food, the friendliness of
the staff and the wholesomeness of the atmosphere.
If you visit or live in greater Fort
Lauderdale there is a new bakery and eat-in and take-out restaurant
that offers excellent, reasonably priced, Jamaican cuisine in
one of the friendliest and cleanest settings.
Tucked away in the Northeast corner
of the Coral Point Plaza on State Road 7, Caribbean Bread Box
is four months new and not easy to find. You have to be in the
know and live in or frequent the Margate area to know about this
restaurant.
The restaurant is owned and operated
by Clement and Margaret Lue and most days you can find Margaret
Lue low-keyed and friendly behind the counter.
The bakery operates around the clock
to provide fresh baked goods daily. Because they are constantly
replenishing the stock of baked goods, there is a very high probability
that you will find your favorite baked goods hot and fresh out
of the oven when you get there. If it is not hot, Margaret Lue
will tell you to come back in an hour or two when the next batch
will be fresh out of the oven. This is what happened to me when
I visited Caribbean Bread Box. I wanted a hard dough bread fresh
out of the oven. Without knowing who I was and that I intended
to do a review, Mrs. Lue told me to return in about an hour when
the next batch would be available. And so I did.
Like I said, the baked goods are fresh,
excellent and reasonably priced:
A large hard dough bread costs $2.75. Imagine a fresh vegetable
patty filled with well seasoned callalo for only 85 cents. Beef
patties also cost only 85 cents. A large slice of delicious sweet
potato pudding costs only $2.00. Bread pudding, banana bread,
and rock cake are also very reasonably priced.
Now onto the entrees. One good aspect
of Caribbean Bread Box is that they keep the menu simple. All
too often, restaurantures place too many items on the menu which
usually results poor quality. Not Caribbean Bread Box. They serve
only two entrees each day.
On Mondays they serve only oxtail and
jerk chicken.
On Tuesdays they serve only curry chicken and oxtail.
On Wednesdays they serve only oxtail and curry goat.
On Thursdays they serve only stew peas and jerk chicken.
On Fridays they serve only escoveitch fish and jerk chicken.
And on Saturdays they serve only steam fish and brown stew chicken.
This means they can concentrate on the
two entrees each day. The result is excellent, fresh, reasonably
priced meals.
I did not have any of the main entrees,
however my associate who introduced me to Caribbean Bread Box
eats there on a regular basis and vouched for the tastiness and
high quality of all items on the menu. A brief query of some
of the patrons substantiated my associate's views.
Ranging in price from $4.50 for small
though rather generous servings to $8.50 for the most expensive
large servings of items on the menu (fish), all meals are served
with mixed vegetables, fried ripe plantains and rice and peas
or white rice.
There is also a nice assortment of beverages
including bottled water, natural juices and sodas. Again, all
reasonably priced.
Considering the high quality of the
food that can be had for less than McDonald's prices, I expect
Caribbean Bread Box to be a rousing success.
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