The Drop Bar Cafe Restaurant

About The Drop Bar Cafe Restaurant

The Drop, as it’s known, is an authentic Caribbean/West Indian restaurant housed in a Victorian arcade opposite the bus terminus in the heart of Chorlton. It’s a place to rock those summer vibes year-round with its covered and heated al fresco outdoor terrace and colourful walls indoors. The team are passionate about how they use flavours, herbs and spices to create authentic West Indian and Jamaican food every day. Best sellers include jerk chicken and curry goat: the first marinated with a secret spice mix then flame grilled, oven blasted then returned to the coals; the second an on-the-bone super-slow-cooked one-pot wonder. Both pack a punch. Ackee and saltfish is Jamaica’s national dish and well worth a punt with its spicy and herby tomato and onion sauce; alternatively, fresh fish is also available in the richly flavoured silver hake and prawn stew. Vegetarians need not worry either as the trademark pimento jerk sauce coats halloumi like a dream, while sweet potato meets it flavour match with coconut milk and curry spices. There are also two veggie roasts on Sundays, alongside the Barbados-inspired Reggae Roast and a lamb chop and chicken combo. And you can’t leave without trying the rice ‘n’ peas, or is it the plantain, or the dumplings, fried or boiled as spinners? Pull up, grab and Rum Punch and try it all.