Jambo Cafe

Longtime fans of chef Ahmed Obo's restaurant on Cerrillos Road already know the soup to order at Jambo Café: the curried black bean and sweet potato soup, a vegetarian bowl served with fresh pita.

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Jambo Café is chef Ahmed Obo's restaurant on Cerrillos Road, and its wings come as an appetizer order tossed in the kitchen's signature spicy jerk sauce. They are worth picking up the day before a big game and reheating, and some wing fans say they are even better the next day. Order the jerk chicken wings to start, or take an order home.

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Ahmed Obo grew up on Lamu, off the Kenyan coast, and has been cooking African dishes with Caribbean flavors on Cerrillos Road since 2009. The New Mexican's reviewer called the goat stew his signature: Caribbean-spiced, cooked long and slow until the meat falls off the bone, sweetened faintly by allspice, ginger and cinnamon. The jerk chicken sandwich and jerk wings carry a heat that builds slowly. Sop up what is left with the roti, which is layered and almost buttery.

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