A plate of jerk chicken, rice and peas and fried plantains

Pimento
wood
smoked

Real jerk. Straight from the drum.

Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet and allspice, then smoked over pimento wood the way they do it in Boston Bay. Oxtail on weekends, until it's gone.

Where we're cooking The menu

The menu

Plates

Every plate comes with rice and peas and fried sweet plantain, with steamed cabbage on the side. Portions are big. Nobody leaves hungry.

Jerk chicken $15

Quarter chicken, smoked for two hours. Spicy but not painful. Ask for extra sauce if you're brave.

A plate with stewed meat, red rice and plantain

Oxtail $22

Braised for five hours with butter beans. Saturdays and Sundays only, and it usually sells out by 2.

Simone handing a to-go box to a customer

Curry goat $19

Bone-in, slow cooked with Jamaican curry powder and potato. Pearl's favourite.

Brown stew chickenRich gravy, sweet peppers

$15

Veggie plateCallaloo and a double helping of plantain

$13

Beef pattyFlaky, a little spicy

Festival (2)Sweet fried dumplings

Sorrel or ginger beerHomemade, 16 oz

Heads up: when something sells out, we post it on Instagram. Oxtail goes first. Every single time.

Follow the smoke

Where we're cooking

We serve from 11 until we run out. Pre-order by text and skip the line, we'll have it boxed and waiting.

The food stand with steam trays and a handwritten menu board

Sat1st, 3rdDiscovery GreenDowntown · 11am until sold out
SunWeeklyThird Ward Sunday MarketEmancipation Ave · 12pm until sold out
Fri2nd, 4thMissouri City Food Truck FridayTexas Pkwy · 5pm to 9pm

Pearl holding out a plate of food at the stand

Market tents at Discovery Green below the downtown towers

Who's cooking

Miss Pearl

Pearl grew up in Spanish Town, where her mother sold jerk from a steel drum by the roadside. She moved to Houston in 2003 and cooked for church functions for fifteen years before anyone convinced her to charge for it.

These days her daughter Simone runs the window and Pearl runs the drum. The marinade recipe stays in Pearl's head, and that's where it's going to stay.

"If it's not smoked, it's not jerk."

Parties & events

Catering trays

Birthdays, office lunches, repasts, cookouts. Give us 48 hours and we'll bring it hot, with serving spoons.

Half tray jerk chickenFeeds 10 to 12

$120

Half tray oxtailFeeds 8 to 10

$180

Rice & peas + plantainHalf tray each, feeds 12

$70

Text Simone (713) 555-0136

What people say

"I'm from Kingston. This is the closest I've had to home since I moved here. The oxtail is the real thing."Andre W. · Missouri City

"Pre-ordered by text, walked past a line of 20 people, grabbed my box. Life-changing."Keisha B. · Third Ward

"Catered my dad's 70th. Everyone went back for seconds. Then they all asked for her number."Tanya R. · Pearland

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