The downtown Orlando scene can sometimes be a bit wilder, says Caroline Harvey, but she and her husband Wayne have enjoyed it since opening Jamueen in the quirky Corner Nook, which once served as a bank branch.
“What happens is that when people come out of the bar there seems to be a desperate need for spicy beef patties and oxtails,” she says with a laugh.
I showed up for lunch and the drinking did not interfere with similar cravings.
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“We’re cooking from scratch forever,” she tells me. Wayne doesn’t make the batch bigger because he wants that quality. A large batch can last a long time, but it’s not as fresh as the first taste, so he cooks all day. ”
On both visits, I skipped too early as they had sold out before, so that’s why I couldn’t do a few things, but this is not where you, or me, or someone else get hungry.
Jamumen (pronounced “jamming”) fuses Jamaica and Britain. Jamaica and the UK were Wayne and Caroline’s respective homelands, the latter – a child born to Irish and Jamaican parents – split time between the UK and the Caribbean while growing up.
She met her husband when she attended high school in Jamaican at age 16, but the two had schooled before that happened.
With her PhD, Caroline International Business, she sets up call centers for large and well-known companies, teaching part-time at the university level, but joined her husband at a restaurant two years ago. Wayne left Jamaica, studied in New York City, moved to Brooklyn and Long Island before settling in New Jersey, where he spun a transport company.
According to Caroline, the business experience made them jump when the opportunity appeared to showcase food at Orlando International Airport.
“We look quite (disturbed) behind the kitchen, but we are quite educated and know how to navigate the system.”
Passing the airport concessions of MCO, the unfavourable corporate enterprise program says it allowed them to become part of a wave of local businesses opening locations at the airport right away.
She pointed out they came out for taste tests during the process and had some of her own so I need to think it helped.
In a huge box of curry and brown stew chicken, tender meat fell from the bones and onto a pile of rice, peas and cabbage. However, Wayne Harvey’s oxtail required several attempts, but the bar and club crowd burned the trough over the weekend. It is fused with collagen, warm with spices, and generous masses collapse in the mouth, making the bones clean.
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“Wayne hasn’t touched the meat as long as he has his lock,” his wife tells me.
He still makes them the best, she said. If the ingredients are missing, he can smell it. ”
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Mr. Harvey is not vegan, but he eats fish (another delicacy I couldn’t try, too popular!), but he responds to them here. Vegan fish and drums are available in their own unique, flavorful Jamaican sauce. And the hearty vegan shepherd pie I tried was gentle, comfortable, comfortable and calm for you who are less likely to drown out the spicy beef patty in pepper sauce.
Honestly, these gorgeous, flake handhelds don’t need anything. Like the crispy pastry rapper, a nice kick (not too stiff) scores a high score for me. You can see why they are popular post-cocktail portable.
Now a shy (and Jamaican) fan of Dagen Eat, Harves frequently used chef Jen Ross’ Eatonville eateries. Harvey has tested his own vegan oxtail recipe, and the early consensus is that it’s a hit.
Also noteworthy, the meat here – chicken, oxtail, everything – is halal.
“Wayne thinks it’s cleaner and better meat, but it works very well in that it’s food-friendly and welcomes an entire group of people who don’t worry about food,” says Caroline.
Her husband looks forward to expanding his client base beyond the impressive ones they have grown for over nine years.
“Downtown is good for us,” he says. “But I’m excited about the opportunities at the airport and introduce these different people with a twist on Jamaican and English-flavored diets from all life.”
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If you’re going
Jam-eng: 65 N. Orange Ave. in Orlando, 407-286-4045; jam-eng.net; instagram.com/jameng_orlando
