Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Though “jerk” is a term of obscure origins, some say it came from the ...

Welcome to the second edition of Sietsema’s Secrets, a new Eater Video series that takes readers inside the kitchens of the city’s best ethnic eateries. This one finds us in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where ...

You will wait at Peppa’s Jerk Chicken. This is not a criticism of the capable staffers, who briskly take orders, wrap festival fry bread in wax paper, rag on one another, speak in calm voices to ...

The rating scale of 0 to 100 reflects our editors’ appraisals of all the tangible and intangible factors that make a restaurant or bar great — or terrible — regardless of price. It would be easy to ...