Los Angeles’s small-but-mighty Caribbean diasporic restaurant scene includes compelling community destinations specializing in Jamaican, Cuban, Trinidadian, Puerto Rican, Belizean, Dominican, Haitian, and Garifuna cuisines. Influenced by Indigenous traditions,
the Transatlantic Slave Trade and other colonizing forces, immigrants from India, and local tropical ingredients, the Caribbean’s flavors are as vast as the region itself, which includes two dozen island nations. The results are unique and flavorful dishes like Jamaican jerk chicken, Dominican pernil, and Belizean panades. Without further ado, here are the best Caribbean restaurants to try right now in Los Angeles.
In this update, Eater adds Jamaican-Chinese restaurant ABL Hollywood and Silver Lake’s Afro-Caribbean spot, Amiguita. Trinistyle Cuisine was removed this round.
