Gordon’s Jamaican Taste

The jerk chicken was pretty good, it even taste good after being reheated and not drying out. Because I asked for extra jerk juice the vegetables ended up being soaked in it and too hot for me to get the full effect. (Totally my fault) However, the rice and peas was horrible. It’s tasted too much like boiling bag rice and it was kind of mushy. There are 2 Gordon’s locations and not sure if they’re associated. They come up under 1 location (Saratoga St) on Unilocal.I’ve been to both places more than once but this review is based on the Lexington market location. Their prices are a lot more reasonable than the Saratoga location but in my opinion the food taste better at Saratoga and obviously they’re open later.

Had to go back today… had the curried goat with rice, and veggies… This is the Best Jamaican Restaurant around town. The prices are just right. Friendly staff. If you want your lunch $ to go far and have a good, delicious meal. This Is The Place!!!

This may be sacrilegious, but the crab cakes at Faidley’s Seafood in Lexington Market are only ok, but nothing outstanding. It costs $ 21 for a crab cake, some pickled beets and cucumbers and very small salad. I am not complaining about the size, but rather that the crab cake was nothing special and the side salads tasted like they were out of a can. I was so hungry I went to the front of Lexington Market and found a restaurant called Gordon’s Jamaican Taste. for $ 6.36 I got some jerked chicken that was first class on a bed of rice and beans and Jamaican vegetables. So, if you want to really eat something with flavor and be satisfied, skip Faidley Seafood and go to Gordon’s at the the front of the Lexington Market. You will be much more satisfied, take my word for it.

I know everyone usually gets crab cakes at Lexington Market, but I promise there is so much more to the market. Gordon’s is one of the places I recommend whenever I bring friends to the market. I typically get a beef or chicken patty, $ 2 each, or I get their oxtail platter with rice and peas. The patties are your standard patties and full of flavor, good if your need something on the go. The oxtail is nice and tender. A large platter is typically $ 8 – 9. While I love the food, service is spotty. Sometimes it can take an eternity to get your food, and there have been times when they didn’t have oxtail. While the chicken is decent, it doesn’t compel me the way the oxtail does. But overall, this is one of the better places at the market. It’s located in the Main Arcade of Lexington Market, near the Eutaw St entrance.

(10/​23/​2012) Recent addition to the vendors at the East («new») side of Lexington Market. Gordon’s is in the Food Court/​Arcade entertainment area. Menu is short and sweet. Beef Patties are tinged yellow-​curry orange, chewy and flaky thin pastry; scant beef filling is smooth like paste, spicy, hint of Madras curry. Jerk Chicken was well-​seasoned, lots of allspice and clove in the mix, chopped chunks of a half-​breast with wing, grilled. Spicy sauce had some definite Scotch bonnet heat, subdued well with rice and peas, and a side sauté of cabbage. Would’ve like the sweetness of some plantains to temper the heat, but those were missing from the box. A «small» is larger than you think (probably a pound of food) and only $ 6. Good addition to the eclectic mix at the Market.

Dancehall ditty blaring Gordon’s Betta Taste on Saratoga St has a baby bredda called Gordon’s Jamaican Taste, (as listed on Lexington Market’s website), in Lexington Market’s Arcade. Barely 3 months old, (but still marked «coming soon» on the aforementioned website?), and he’s boonoonoonous.
Gordon’s market stall, (which posts «Betta Taste» on it’s side like big bredda?), is a tighter spot with a tighter menu including a tender Goat Curry. Meat savory. Bone with much moist marrow plopped in. Scoville scale heat spiced up comfy, not overbearing. Ultimately spicier than my jaunt to big bredda, Betta Taste, seventeen months ago (
). Goat bedded by plenty of appetizing rice & beans. Cabbage buttery. A ripened plantain served halved as preferred instead of diced showed off a pleasant slightly sweet taste. All tightly tucked together as a seriously portable lunch for $ 7.00. The $ 2.00 Beef Patty had robust finely seasoned beef. Flaky pastry flavorsome. A $ 1.50 chunk of undivided Coco Bread was firm and ready for serious sopping duty. Service vacillated from no-​nonsense to downright personable depending on who behind the counter I dealt. Always dutiful.
Enjoyable lunch. Didn’t beat my favorite Caribbean joint in Northwest Baltimore, but good enough to win revisits when ambling around Lexington Market. Big up uno dem, bwoy.