Rice & Things

Looking forward to trying out Jamaican food in Bristol and wasn’t disappointed! Very tasty jerk chicken and rice and peas. Festivals were nice but a tad bit too oily. Waiting time wasn’t too bad. Staff was pleasant and helpful. Also don’t expect everything on the menu to be available past 6pm haha!

The food speaks for itself just loook at the picture. Honestly Rice & Things is the best Jamaican takeaway spot in Bristol!! The lovely staff fill up the box everytime. I would recommend ordering the jerk chicken or fried chicken meal (thank me later) also their coleslaw is the best I have ever tried so order that. As someone who does my research when it comes to ordering food and is a foodie myself try out this takeaway and taste how good it is for yourself. I do wish in the near future that Rice & Things will have a delivery option.

I’m no master chef 😎😎but that was excellent had the fish goat curry dumplings soup plantain ..I’ve eaten a lot of Caribbean food over the years this is possibly the best that’s a big statement. I’m going back today to try the jerk chicken fish off the steel drum I live in the West Midlands and I’m visiting family in Bristol. This is definitely my favourite now thank you. Keep cooking.bless

Very disappointed. I ordered fried chicken and white rice along with other things to get home and find my food plain with no gravy. I specifically asked to ensure this would be on there (which it usually is).

The best Jamaican food in town! Honestly their curry goat is so good! Big portion too, felt like my mother packed dinner for me :) I would definitely come back again and again!

Best curry goat I’ve had. Quite boney (if that’s a problem for you). Definitely get extra gravy. Wish they delivered.

Had no jerk so we went with the Curry goat, rice and peas were cooked to perfection. Sadly only had about 2 bits of meat the rest was all bone

Service was lacking and not attentive to our needs. No server remained with the birthday party, so additional service water and drinks took a while. Send more effort put into the takeaway service than the eat-in

The food is delicious the only problem is the parking and the new clean air zone, chef is awesome

I was visiting Bristol from the United States. I had a strong yearning for authentic and delicious Jamaican food. I scored BIG time in finding Rice & Things via Yelp. This restaurant offers a variety of delicious offerings, including Oxtail, Curry Goat, and Brown Stew Chicken. It is worth noting that Jerk Chicken is only available on the weekends. Definitely worth patronizing especially if you are looking for takeaway options. Also, I am of Jamaican heritage -- this food is absolutely authentic!!

Rice & Things is a relatively new (and orignial, horaaay!) restuarant to pop up mid-way on Cheltenham Road. Most people who talk about this cannot help but put on a strong Jamacian accent as they pronounce the name of the restaurant, which in turn has become quite a sucessful advertisement technique! I particulally like the fact that its so bright and cheery on both the outside and inside. It's almost always busy in here, which is an encouraging thought on it's own. The food is typcial, traditional and wholesome Jamacian food. Their Jerk Chicken is devine but if you are looking for something a bit more authentic then check out their curry mutton with rice and peas. It's definitely worth a taste.

Bristol has a number of good Caribbean restaurant to chose from, but Rice and Things is my favourite! From the outside Rice and Things doesn't look like much. It doesn't look like much inside either. But the food here is incredible! I have eaten A LOT of jerk chicken from a lot of different places; I love the stuff! And this is by far the best I've had. Rice & Things have a big menu which isn't cheap, but it really is quality. They break the menu down into Fish, Lobster, Chicken, Beef, Pork and Vegetarian dishes which is nice and easy to navigate. They do a Belfield Stew Beef which is unbelievably good. It isn't something I would normally order but I tried some of a friends last time and I can't wait to order it next time I go. Did I mention that they do the best Jerk Chicken? The crispy King Prawns are also a great starter. Service wise I can't fault them. I've had more takeaways than I have used the restaurant, but I've always had good service when I've eaten in. Rice & Things was on a Jamie Oliver programme a couple of years back and the cue out of the door for the next couple of weeks was insane. But It just shows how good they are!

If you are a bit bored of the standard takeaway options of Chinese, Indian and pizza, then you could give this Jamaican place a go. Rice & Things is both a restaurant and Takeaway service, although it's pretty small so if you did want to eat in maybe book ahead! Although I think a Jamaican takeaway is a great idea, personally I wouldn't go back to this one just for the fact that I think they're pretty over priced. For a meat dish you can expect to pay around £12, and that's without rice or extras, and even vegetarian is a tenner - so it's around double the price of Indian and Chinese. As for the food it was pretty average and nothing special, so I didn't feel I got great value for money. I wouldn't say I'm a massive Caribbean food fan though, so if you are it might be worth trying out!

Rice and Things is great for a non-typical takeaway when pizza, chinese or the chippie won't do. This Jamaican restaurant offers traditional West Indian cooking for both sit-in and take out. Recently it's been quite usual for me to skip along for some chicken, rice and pea instead for cooking for myself. Three reasons: the food is more interesting than I could realistically cook quickly for myself, it's pretty cheap and when I've finished stuffing my face I sit back, rub my belly and feel genuinley healthier than I would with any other takeaway food. I was chuffed to get home and see an overflowing box of fried chicken, loads of rice, with extra salad and gravy that I hadn't even asked for. Bonus! But where was my plantain?! I asked for plantain! It seems that my extra gravy and salad was a substitute for my favourite sweet treat, which is a nice gesture, however it would have been better to tell me that such a swap was taking place!. Oh well, this all came in at £6.50 which ain't bad although I'm sure the mutton, goat and curry dishes would come in at a heftier price. Although I haven't eaten in the restaurant, it's always busy, in fact, absolutely heaving at weekends so it's safer to book head. There's also all-you-can eat events held monthly if you really can't get enough of the place.

The food was like eating in Mandeville, real Jamaican food, served like were on the Island The standard menu is fairly brief but comprehensive, the brown stew fish was a good looking fish, the chicken was authentically flavoured, the jerk was as hot as you like ..... even the veggie chunks were like I last had at Bluefields, JA The a la carte menu is only available when the chef can fit it in, call ahead and they'll arrange it for you The staff were very friendly and made you feel welcome There was a constant stream of Jamaicans calling for their meals The prices are good, as is the quality, £15 for a full meal is pretty reasonable to me We loved the place and have already been back once with another planned

My first experience of this restraunt and Jamaican food. What a lovely surprise the food was excellant and staff very friendly and helpful. Will definaly return and recommend to my friends. Thanks for a great meal. S.D Bristol

really really good food, amazing service, came here with colleagues from the Daily Mail and was very impressed.. a must go to if in Bristol 10 out of 10

The food as rice and things has always been good, however recently I think things have been going down hill..I ordered stewed beef on Friday and the beef was very fatty and the rice seemed dry and over cooked there was also very little gravy...on another occaision I called to order my food, arrived 20 mins later to be told my order wasn't taken and the dish I wanted was now sold out...I asked if there was another carribean take away nearby and was told no...they were the only one in bristol...as well as good food you need good customer service...the staff here were very rude and often unhelpfull.kept me waiting at the door without any acknowledgement.a simple.."ill be with you in one minute" goes a long way.......I have now decided not to return in the hope service will improve as will the food. I have found another jamacian restaurant, its a little further out of town but each time I go they are friendly polite and helpfull...As a bristol local for over 30yrs now I do wish rice and things all the best but they really need improve things and just be more polite......this is a service industry after all..

To be 100% honest the food tasted like dog food, it was like we were eating in a latrine, and we were rushed out...The food was cold, and the plates were dirty. The staff were nervous and hardly knew what they were doing,and the manager or manageress WOW errrrrrrrrrrrrr I guess there is no need for professionalism in business in the Recession... Customer Service was APPALLING and lastly the pathetic attempt of the wannabe DJ to slyly hint that he would like if his guests left was like watching a bad performance on X-Factor.....Then to be later told Jamie Oliver had endorsed this how can I say it, project, well what can I say.... People like JEDWARD had a top hit....so I shouldn't be surprised. In the end I whole heartedly blame myself and my group , as we after being forewarned to boycott going there, went with high expectations based on when he was in the hatch..... what we should have done is go with the lowest of low expectations, but when I think about it perhaps that still wouldn't have been enough..... Lastly I hold my hands up that I was late for the sitting and so were SOME of my party. But once a plan was negotiated so that customer was satisfied as I thought was key in business, we were ghettolly dramatically ambushed.....stories changed and I quote it was said by a member of staff after my friend said this is terrible customer service, she the worker then said " I know it's bad customer service" errrrrrrrrrrrm case closed, but they insisted in being wrong and strong...... p.s. getting my food at a buffet then having to go past a sewage smell , past the toilets to then GO DOWN THE HIGH TRAFFIC ANOREXICALLY THIN STAIRCASE to then sit and eat in the latrine was not a good look....anyhoo you live and you learn. By no means take my experience and live by it , try for yourself, but I will never go there again....... oh and the first time I ordered food there without sitting in by the time I got home with my friend (who I had ranted on about how great this Rice N Things was, based on the chef in the hatch) we couldn't eat the chicken as it had been cooked in OLD OIL......... nice one.....YOU FAILED!