Comments on: Dining: Negril

By: neha

neha — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0000

what is the first food called it is for my project

By: scenic wheaton

scenic wheaton — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:58:52 +0000

What I love about Negril is the “Negril Vortex” of cars cruising slowly by trying to find a close Negril parking space. Watch out for the vortex! It will suck you up.

By: johnny blaze

johnny blaze — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:58:38 +0000

I think Negril’s offerings lose something in the mass production. They are clearly good at what they do, but making good food with consistency–and on a large scale–is hard to pull off. For instance, you’re supposed to taste a hint of coconut milk in real Jamaican rice & peas. At Negril, sometimes the flavor is there, sometimes it’s not.

By comparison, the food at the Jamaican place in White Oak shopping center (wish I could remember the name) is consistently flavorful.

By: PrettyBrownEyes

PrettyBrownEyes — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:03:44 +0000

… agreed.

Theres a really good Jamaican spot in the White Oak shopping center that give much more food for your money and its the best Jamaican food I’ve put my fingers on since I left NYC.

Its worth the hike up 29.

By: I love Negril

I love Negril — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:22:53 +0000

I must rise in defense of Negril, one of my favorite restaurants in Downtown Silver Spring. It’s true, the food is nothing to write home about. I gave up the goat dishes in 2004 after an unfortunate goat bone incident and the vegitarian options are pretty terrible. However, the jerk chicken (dinner or sandwhich) is consistently excellent and the curried chicken is also reliably good, as are the plantains.

What Negril truly excels at is presenting an alternative to Fast Food Nation. Negril and McDonalds both meet the need for simple and inexpensive but good tasting food that can be ordered and eaten quickly or taken out. But unlike the fast food franchises, Negril is locally owned and it offers customers a wholesome and balanced meal (true I have not done a nutritional comparison, but a plate of rotisserie chicken, rice, and a salad sure seems better for you than combo meal #7). The restaurant fits into the existing streetscape rather than imposing itself around a sea of asphault, and it lights up the otherwise drab section of Thayer Avenue.

I’m sure there are more refined Jamaican places in the area, but try going back on a cold and rainy winter night after a long day of work when you are hungry. Order the Jerk Chicken and a root beet, sit back and soak in the Bob Marley and you too will be transported to epicurean bliss (or just go when you have the munchies, if you know what I mean).