Satisfy your comfort food cravings with these soft, slow-cooked classics.
Oxtail is a Caribbean specialty, a rich and delicious slow-cooked dish beef on the plate. Mostly found in Florida chain restaurants, this delicious menu item makes a perfect meal when paired with sides like rice and chickpeas, plantains, and kale. If you’re craving this classic comfort food, a few restaurants get it right every time: Here are four restaurants that do the best oxtail.
Golden Crust Caribbean Restaurant

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The ox cooked in Golden boat The Caribbean restaurant has a must-have menu item that is slow-cooked, stewed beef in a rich broth, perfect with rice and peas. “The oxtail is delicious! Fall off the bone with great Jamaican flavor,” one diner said.
Red rooster

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Red rooster has a delicious Smoked Oxtail, a rich and smoky dish served with sweet plantains, coconut lime rice, long pepper, and aromatic Thai basil. “The best oxtails I’ve ever had in a restaurant. So tender and bursting with flavor. I couldn’t ask for a better meal,” one diner said.
Fixins Soul Kitchen

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Fixins Soul Kitchen Oxtails served with sweet brown gravy, rice and a side. “Roast chops perfectly cooked, moist and crispy, beef with just the right amount of flavor and sauce, greens, my goodness, we ate the leftovers cold the next day and they were delicious!” a fan joint.
Dutch Pot Jamaica Restaurant

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Dutch pot The Jamaican restaurant has authentic classics on the menu, from chicken and beef to fennel and curry. “I chose to come here because I was looking for oxtail… I got oxtail and chicken curry and they were both out of this world!” a kitchen said.




