Cool Runnings Cuisine Reviews Summary

Category: Caribbean restaurant

Address: 118 E 2nd Ave, Roselle, NJ 07203, USA

Phone: +19082452069

Rating: 3.7
based on 118 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The jerk pork and the curry chicken both were great!"
  • "Food bussin bussin and omg their drinks are super delicious."
  • "Cool runnings restaurant one of the best Jamaican restaurant I’ve ever eat oxtail was excellent rice & peas & Mac was so tastey reasonable price also💯keep up the great job guys."
  • "The jerk chicken was fantastic, the chicken wasn't dried out and it was nice and tender and the jerk sauce was absolutely banging, so delicious."
  • "Delicious! Oxtail with Rice & Peas, plantains and cabbage on the side."
  • "The food is absolutely amazing!"
  • "Always delicious."

Cons:

  • "Dry ashell, hard, no flavor, stiff just no good!"
  • "The food was the worst. Jerk chicken no flavor, cabbage was not tender, collard greens were so so."
  • "The food is no longer fresh, it’s reheated. It taste stale and old."
  • "I ordered from here last night a brown stew snapper when I ate my food it was so bland it needed salt and there was no brown stew sauce it was literally grease and water."
  • "The beef patty was extremely flaky and tasteless."
  • "The jerk chicken was so hard it wasn’t barely chewable."
  • "The food is by far the worst jamaican food I ever tasted."

Service

Pros:

  • "Every POC that walked in got a smile and a hello."
  • "She was helpful and made every effort to have a next day catering order fulfilled and delivered in a timely manner."
  • "The staff there is courteous and accommodating."
  • "The employee was courteous."
  • "They were extraordinarily professional and the meals were flavorfulSo delicious."
  • "The young lady who took our order was very patient and professional."
  • "The older woman who answers the phone is always pleasant."

Cons:

  • "Horrible service the woman at the front desk has a bad nasty attitude.... she's mean and rude."
  • "Delivery was very late. The food was supar."
  • "Horrible customer service. Small portions s large oxtail you get 5 small pieces for 15.00 bucks."
  • "The service in this place is absolutely awful! The women at the counter was mean spirited and rude."
  • "The delivery guy is beyond rude."
  • "Worker was rude no greeting and no your welcome just a stare."
  • "The woman refused to give me her name."

Order Accuracy

Pros:

  • "I ordered oxtails and jerk chicken and plantains, I got home I had plantains and jerk chicken I went back they corrected the order."
  • "This restaurant is a gem. They fulfilled a last minute catering order for patties! Thank you for the professionalism!"

Cons:

  • "Came here expecting to be served in a moderate amount of time only to spend 30 min waiting to get the wrong order."
  • "They gave me the wrong order! How can you be a restaurant and give the wrong order?!"
  • "Then we get there after ordering a small oxtail and a medium only to be charged for 2 mediums."
  • "The lady forget to put the Pattie’s in the bag so I had to go back and get them."
  • "Upon getting home we realized we were given the wrong sides for the medium order."
  • "Another time they gave me the wrong kind of patties and I didn't realize until I got home."
  • "I did not receive my beef patty or plantain in my meal."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "Great authentic tasty food with reasonable portions for the price."
  • "They give good portions for a great price."
  • "Delicious and affordable."
  • "Authentic Jamaican food at a reasonable price."
  • "Good prices, eat in or take out, laid back atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "I saw how little was in there for almost $20, and i get it’s expensive but the serving is crazy."
  • "The food is not that great and overpriced."
  • "A total rip-off for what you pay."
  • "And they food is way to expensive for the amount they give you....they give you a small amount of food in charge way to much."
  • "Food way overpriced for the amount they offer and is extra salty."
  • "Over charge for food that’s average & they barely give you enough food rice taste like it was from the day before I will no longer order from this place!"
  • "For $16 I received oxtail and goat meat and only 5 pieces of meat in total!"

Hygiene

Pros:

  • "The food is incredible at Cool Runnings! The people are incredibly friendly and the place is so clean."
  • "An atmosphere of rich reggae culture combined with a sterile enviro.... Pretty organized."
  • "The staff (2 ladies) were dressed in their uniforms, they were also wearing head coverings masks/gloves."

Cons:

  • "There was a roach on today’s lunch that was ordered has part of a catering in our office."
  • "As well as the bathrooms smell disgusting."
  • "I literally found a part of a barcode sticker in my collard greens."
  • "The turkey wings were definitely not fresh and the chicken was OK but the rice was 100% gone- to the point where there was slime coming from the fork when I pulled it from the rice!!!"
  • "Entrance to bathroom needs to be cleaned up."

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