Runaway Bay, Jamaica – Driving alongside the freeway from Runaway Bay to Discovery Bay, guests to Jamaica view one of many nation’s most scenic coastlines. It’s dotted with all-inclusive accommodations, small properties, and a slew of jerked meals eating places.
In February, Dalian Clarke entered a aggressive market with the opening of Farenough Jerk & Seafood Restaurant. It’s positioned at Principal Avenue in Runaway Bay, simply outdoors of Ocho Rios.
The self-taught chef, who beforehand operated a catering enterprise, knew that so as to tackle extra established rivals, his menu needed to be distinctive. And it’s paying off to date.
“Patrons benefit from the curried reindeer and jerked wild boar together with our sides greater than the rest. We get vacationers from accommodations, visitor homes and the cruise ships. The numbers should not big however it’s usually,” mentioned Clarke.
For a few years, jerked delicacies was restricted to rooster, pork and fish. Up to now 20 years, because the spicy meals gained a world following, that has grown to incorporate lobster, conch and even ice cream.
Clarke, who’s from Manchester parish in southern Jamaica, needed to excite his clientele with one thing radical. Therefore, the jerked wild boar and curried reindeer which he serves on Fridays.
The Runaway Bay/Discovery Bay leg of the North Coast Freeway is a part of Jamaica’s prime tourism actual property. It attracts thousands of visitors, primarily from North America and Europe. Lots of them, stopovers from cruise ships in Ocho Rios, hunt down jerked meals at eating places massive and small.
As he seeks to faucet into that aggressive scene, Dalian Clarke is already wanting down the street.
“Within the subsequent 5 years, we need to be the premier restaurant on the North Coast, providing numerous and tastiest meals to meat and seafood lovers and vegetarians,” he mentioned.