Culpepper's
"In case you haven't heard, Culpepper's is one of Brooklyn's most beloved Barbadian restaurants. (Folks also use the adjective 'Bajan,' pronounced something like Bay-zhen.)... Inside lies both bustle and calm: the smells of curries and jerks, snapper three ways, baked loaves and ginger tea; cooks and servers running to and fro, taking orders whilst stacking food into tins," writes the Porkchop Express.
Time Out New York says, "Juicy jerk chicken comes perched on a bed of spicy rice with fried plantains and veggies for a measly $6.50 (small) or $8.50 (large)." And Seth Kugel for the New York Times says you must "pick up the national specialty: cou-cou with flying fish. It’s an absolutely humongous meal that involves a cornmeal mass in a soupy tomato and onion sauce topped with a couple of fried fillets of flying fish."
Culpepper's looks like a straight-up take-out joint, but food blogger The Confined Nomad recently posted about enjoying a hearty meal in the restaurant's "tiny, green, windowless dining room lined with portraits of five of Barbados’ seven prime ministers. It was uncomfortably quiet inside compared to the bustle on the other side of the door, and completely empty except for one of the friendliest, most helpful servers you could hope for." What are your thoughts on this place?
Reviews (3)
Brownstones Half Off wrote a review on June 1, 2009 12:28 PM
"Barbadian"
Bajan!
***Bid half off peak comps***
gemini10 wrote a review on June 1, 2009 12:48 PM
have to agree with BHO
Bajans!!! - never "Barbadians"
I reallllly want to check this place out - it does get good reviews among West indian folks
iluvclintonhill wrote a review on June 2, 2009 12:03 AM
It is pronounced Bay-gins.....not bay- zhens.The food is good and the national dish of coucou and flying fish reminds me of what my mom used to make.The food is good overall as well as the pastries .
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