"Pop your head into the kitchen at this Caribbean market. It’s located at the back, and that’s where you’ll find the chef cooking oxtail, curry goat, roti, and possibly an exciting daily special, like cow foot soup. Tell her what you want and she’ll disappear before emerging moments later with a slowly stewed meat sitting on a pile of rice and peas, or wrapped tightly in a warm roti. You can also place an order online in advance, but interaction is half the fun at B&M. How else would you find out that the chef bottles and sells her own pepper sauce? Take home a bottle and have tissues nearby." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino