Website: https://jamaicawayrestaurant.com/
Jamaicaway Restaurant & Catering is a Jamaican restaurant and catering operation located inside the Nashville Farmers’ Market in Nashville, Tennessee. The kitchen serves authentic Caribbean cooking, and its online presence lists a full menu of Jamaican entrees, appetizers, sides, beverages, and catering packages, alongside a notable selection of vegan and vegetarian options built around soy-based proteins. The business operates from a market stall location and offers both dine-in market service and catering for larger groups.
Menu
The menu spans traditional Jamaican plates and Caribbean staples. Chicken entrees include Brown Stew Chicken, BBQ Chicken, jerk preparations, and boneless fried chicken breast served with an in-house mango chutney dipping sauce. Jerk Wings are offered in multiple formats, such as three whole wings with a choice of accompanying sauce and five whole wings served with French fries or a drink. Curry Goat is described as chunks of bone-in goat meat seasoned with house marinade and cooked down in a mild Jamaican yellow curry sauce, topped with steamed carrot slices.
Seafood options include a fleshy boneless cut of Salmon and an eight-ounce boneless cut of Red Snapper, each seasoned in a custom house marinade, pan fried, and finished in jerk or escovitch sauce, available spicy or mild. Ackee N Saltfish appears among the traditional dishes. Roti selections include Beef Roti, Chicken Roti in both dark meat and white meat, and vegetable roti filled with combinations of channa potatoes, channa chickpeas, pumpkin, and green beans wrapped in a roti skin.
For plant-based diners, the restaurant prepares textured soy-based proteins in several finishes: a barbecue soy version sauteed with house seasonings and finished in barbecue sauce, a creamy coconut version, a spicy vegan jerk version, and a battered, deep-fried version served with mango chutney that mimics the taste and appearance of chicken nuggets. Sides include fried plantains garnished with mango chutney sauce. Appetizers include chicken samplers offered in small and large sizes.
Catering
Jamaicaway offers catering packages organized into meat and fish trays, vegan and vegetarian trays, sauces, and desserts. Sampler-style catering lets customers choose any three or four chicken entrees, excluding wings, or any three vegetable sides. Dessert catering includes Carrot Cake and Chocolate Cake, each listed at fourteen servings.
Beverages
The beverage list features Caribbean soft drinks, including a grapefruit-flavored soft drink and a malt-flavored soda the menu describes as borrowed from cousins in the Eastern Caribbean, plus bottled water and standard sodas.
Location & Contact
The restaurant is located at 900 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, Suite 120, Nashville, TN 37208, within the Nashville Farmers’ Market. The listed phone number is (615) 255-5920. Posted market hours run Monday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Additional Information
The menu emphasizes scratch preparation, with many dishes built on custom house marinades and seasoning mixes. Spice levels on several seafood and jerk items can be adjusted from mild to spicy. The range of soy-based entrees makes the menu accessible to vegan and vegetarian guests while keeping the flavor profiles rooted in Jamaican cooking.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (jamaicawayrestaurant.com).