Natty’s Jam’ish Breakfast is served!
Breakfast isn’t just the first meal of the day. It’s where you plant your roots, even when you’re far from home.
Breakfast in my grandmother’s house was never just ‘grab some toast and go.’ It was a whole mood.”
In Jamaica, mornings began with soundtracks of gospel, reggae – or on Saturdays, a bit of country and western if you got to the radio late. The air carried the scent of fried dumplings, saltfish, peppers, onions, and scotch bonnet – the rhythm of sizzling pans mixing with laughter, hymns, and the occasional chat with the Lord.
Breakfast was a feast: ackee and saltfish, boiled green banana, yam, fried plantain, and always a surprise pot of porridge – cornmeal, oats, banana, or peanut – finished with condensed milk and a dusting of nutmeg. Proper food to power through the day.
Back in the UK, things looked different. Mum kept that same Jamaican energy alive, even when cupboards were sparse. Weekdays meant cereal and toast, but weekends? The kitchen transformed. Flour dusted the counter, ackee tins opened, and salted fish simmered until the grey skies outside couldn’t compete with the warmth inside.
That mix – one morning a fry-up at a friend’s, the next morning fried dumplings with callaloo – shaped how I see food.
That’s why we’ve launched a delicious new Caribbean breakfast menu, and it’s available Friday to Sunday from 8:30 am to 11:30 am in Portsmouth 💚💛❤️.
What’s on the menu?
🇯🇲 THE JAM’ISH 😇 our answer to a full English!! Scrambled eggs with jerk bacon, jerk sausages, and Mr Chin’s baked beans, plant’in, hard dough bread AND callaloo 🙏🏾
🇯🇲 ACKEE & SALTFISH 🐟 – Jamaica’s national dish served with fried dumplings & more!
🇯🇲 CORNMEAL PORRIDGE – Creamy cornmeal porridge, made with coconut milk, condensed milk, lots of nutmeg and cinnamon. Pure comfort in a bowl!
& more!
