B & M Market

"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

"Does a $12 order of Caribbean brown strew or $13 jerk chicken sound appealing? Give West Indian favorite B&M Market a try for all this, plus an excellent selection of roti." - Eater Staff

"The Dish: Roti The blue and red hand-painted menu on the exterior of B&M Market is the most important landmark on 79th Street. At least, it is to us. Because for decades now, it’s where you could point folks to for the best roti in the City Of Miami, made fresh from a tiny kitchen in the back of this West Indian market. Whether or not you know about B&M Market (and the fact that you should not mess around with their pepper sauce) is a great litmus test for how well you know this city’s food scene. " - virginia otazo, ryan pfeffer, mariana trabanino

"B&M Market looks like just another bodega when you're driving down 79th Street, but this place also serves some of Miami's best West Indian food from its tiny kitchen. Walk to the back of the store and you'll see people waiting for their ackee and saltfish, oxtail stew, and some of Miami’s best roti. To place an order, just stick your head into the kitchen and let the chef know what you want (or place a takeout order in advance online). While you wait for the food, check out the shop’s selection of Caribbean drinks, which includes an Irish Moss that tastes like a cinnamon milkshake and is a lifesaver if you accidentally go overboard with the very (very) spicy pepper sauce on the table." - ryan pfeffer

"The Meal: Chicken Roti, $11 B&M Market is a little market on 79th Street that also serves some of the best West Indian food Miami has to offer. The standard brown stew chicken here is awesome, but the real move is to order the chicken roti. Do that and you’ll get chunks of B&M’s tender chicken wrapped inside an unbelievably good roti for a very reasonable $11. For a stress-free takeout experience, place your order in advance online." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino