Jamaican restaurant Bigga Taste just opened up in Montreal’s NDG. Owner Andrea Rhoden says Caribbean food here isn’t as common to find and locals can’t seem to get enough.

Rhoden associates being Jamaican with doing a lot of cooking.

“Being around my aunt, being around my mom when we migrated here, we’re always cooking family dinner as a must, so we’re always in the kitchen, and so this is how it all started,” Rhoden said.

Rhoden believes in good-tasting, quality food, and she believes that’s the key to bringing customers through her doors.

While there are a few West Indian restaurants around, Bigga Taste is the only one on Sherbrooke Street.

“It feels great and the people are really, really gravitating,” Rhoden said.

She got her start feeding Montrealers, long before her restaurant

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