Caribbean Choice Food

As good as it get! Best Jamaica food in Calgary! When i eat here every weekend i truly feel like I’m back home.

This place is a small grocery store of popular Caribbean staples with a take-​out counter. There’s really only 2 – 3 tables that probably can seat 8 – 10 people and pretty much fill up the whole place so it’s not really a place you can count on to sit in and eat. There’s curry and jerk dishes on the menu. They have Jamaican patties ready to go all the time but I still prefer Lloyd’s. I’ve tried the goat curry and oxtail as well as the jerk chicken and I have to say the jerk chicken is, to me, the best of the lot. The curry is uninteresting, not really much flavour other than it’s curry and has a bit of heat. They make their own hot sauce but I didn’t really give it a good enough try to comment on. Service is friendly. I’d go back for the jerk chicken.

A friend of mine and I drove to Calgary for a day all the way from Jasper to shop and basically eat nonstop.
I saw this place in Unilocal!and was convinced by the highly positive reviews to visit it. I was happy that I did.
I ordered the beef patties and jerk chicken dinner. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, that’s all I have to say. Jerk chicken was flavourful and not dry. The rice was also great and the veggies that came along was great. I wish I asked for extra sauce though, I would’ve liked it a bit more saucy (that’s just my personal preference).
I definitely will come back next time I hit up Calgs. Maybe try their rotis, oxtail and curry goat next time… Thinking about it right now makes me drool.
Oh and lady at the counter was lovely and nice!

I wish we had more Caribbean options in Calgary but this one is pretty good. Simple place and feels like you’re in Jamaica. I only ever have the ox tail and it’s pretty good. Very filling. I keep saying to myself that I will try the jerk chicken each time but I always end up having the oxtail. Closed early so really more for lunch or early dinner.

I love this place! Bernice always makes me feel welcome and even remembers my name — who does that, eh? In a world of automated phone interactions (Say «agent», I’m sorry. I didn’t get that. Say «agent», I’m sorry. I didn’t get that. Say «agent»…ugh), we really need the human touch and that’s what you get in this place. The food is yummy and my husband is very happy when I bring him a take out goat curry from Bernice’s. Alternatively, you can sit down at a table and eat your delicious meal in the shop. It’s such a relief to find West Indian food, prepared by West Indians, in Calgary. When I first came to Calgary from Toronto 20 years ago, it was one of the first things I missed. A big shout out to Caribbean Choice Food!

Talk about entering out of the cold, the produce here, the fresh made food, the employees and the customers make you feel that you are on the islands in plus 36 degrees weather.
There are basically two rows of food here, mostly staples, rice, teas, spices, beans, and the sauces. A very nice selection of exotic hot sauces here, Tamarind Date, Trinidad Style, Red pepper, Hot pepper, and West Indian Sauce just to name a few.
The take out or in menu consisted of Jamaican Patties for 2 dollars, and Coco Bread. There is Curried Chicken, Curried Goat, Curried Ox Tail, Jerk Chicken, Curried Chicken, Beef and Goat Roti all for around 10 dollars.
All prices are reasonable and there was a small line up of regulars with tons of laughing and island stories spiralling around. It was so contagious we were all laughing in the end and you really did feel like you were sitting on the beach in the Caribbean sipping on your island rum or ginger beer.
The owners were so warm and friendly that they gave me a 2010 mini calendar to take home. Ahhhh so nice warming up the soul for a brief moment today.