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Start a Top 5 for CaribbeanEditor’s picks
Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in NBC 7 San Diego, San Diego Magazine, and San Diego Reader. Updated August 2026.
Sweet Spot Real Jamaican Restaurant · Grant Hill
A small Grant Hill room with reggae and a shaded wood deck, jerk chicken, braised oxtail and generous plates of rice and peas.
Caribbean Taste · Encanto
A roughly 20-year Encanto mainstay in Trolley Stop Plaza, jerk chicken, goat stew and oxtail.