Brown's Jamaican Restaurant & Brown

The curry goat was on point. The food was just seasoned right. The flavors hit your mouth the correct way. This had become a stopping point when I and traveling to and from Miami.
Just try it when you are in Palm Bay.
And also the fresh baked treats.

Not sure if this establishment changed hands recently, BUT IT WAS FOR THE WORST!!.. This woman that served me had THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER!!...I have made several trips to this establishment, and was NEVER TREATED in such a derogatory fashion! This woman was rude, condescending, and acted as if I came to the establishment to BEG food, instead of purchasing! I was purchasing soup and asked to get some specific items IN THE SOUP, THAT WAS ALREADY IN IT, this woman says to me "YOU WILL TAKE WHATEVER I GIVE YOU"!!. ...So I said as politely as possible, "no
that can't work, because what if I don't eat one of the items, and you fill my cup with that item, that wouldn't be fair to me", she hissed her teeth and said you will get what I give you. At that point I went silent, because I was so taken aback by her attitude and comments, and she kept talking as if I was getting her frustrations from previous customers!
That made me very upset. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THAT PLACE. THEY CAN GO OUT OF BUSINESS FOR ALL I CARE!

Friendly staff, nice selection, and delicious patties! Can't wait to come back to try more things.

Take out foods, small no dining area. Prices are decent & workers are nice & fast. Jamacian's not my fav, but they must be good because there's lots of traffic here.

Yum! The patties and jerked chicken were awesome. Next time I'll get a large!! Thanks!

The food was SO FLAVORFUL! I came for the Tuesday special which is jerk chicken and I also grabbed a beef patty. It had a perfect amount of favor and spice. I love that there was plenty of sauce, which some places don't give you. Will definitely come back when I'm in the area again!

I've been eating lunch here for several years now, at least once or twice a week before the pandemic, and this is still one of my favorite places. I had never had Jamaican food before, and I am much better for trying it. My favorite is the Jerk Chicken and Jerk Pork, but you can't go wrong with about anything they have, whether it's a beef, chicken, or callaloo patty, or stew chicken, or even curry goat. The prices are great, and their baked goods are terrific too. Give them a visit and help this local, family-owned business stick around!

Almost finished the whole meal in my car still parked. So much flavor packed inside. Not too salty either like other places. Had the jerk chicken with the rice and peas. Definitely coming back to try an empanada.

Brown's Jamaican- Palm Bay/Malabar Rd- 4-Stars

Eh mon, don't ya know all the Jamaica jokes? How when we devour a succulently roasted jerk chicken, we tell the chef "Jamaican me crazy"? Well, today we can safely say "Jamaican me fat!" Because this little island seems to belie its teensy little size by being more determined than McDonald's to Super Size you Big Boy readers. Just try to guess how many dishes I ordered and you will be wrong! But I bet you can at least guess now what percentage of them was tasty and understand just why this restaurant is so dangerous to your diet! Call up your doctor and say their second mortgage is no longer needed because Brown's is in town!

As soon as you pass by the door, you're taken by the gung-ho attitude of the window design, its trisectional window and bright island colored letters hiding the subtlest hint of attitude - the name comes out as "Brown's Jamaican Restaurant!" Ya mon, the gratuitous exclamation point. As you've seen in previous articles, a warm exterior is a popular tactic to make you forget the food sucks, but for better or for worse, you never know until you try, do you?

Then you walk in to an interior about as luxurious as you would expect in an island flat, the Caribbean brother of down-home BBQ joints complete with low-rent menu numbering. But hey, do you expect Tour d'Argent when you come to the Caribbean? I certainly hope not for these prices, which are quite reasonable even for "Large" sized portions. Don't get me wrong, it's no dump, just simple and homely - but it's unpretentious enough to make you appreciate the owner Thomas, his cordiality and enthusiasm permeating the otherwise blocky walls as orange-yellow as a Scotch bonnet. The visual focus is placed squarely on his culinary handiwork everywhere inside the building for good reason - the baked goods sit out front, rubbed in your face like Fido treats as you can almost hear Thomas saying "Come," and LOOK so obviously freshly made. I guess that's an apt description of what your stomach would say after you're ensnared by the sight and smell of home-cooked Jamaican food around every corner and get the urge to order basically everything.

There seems to be a law of inverse proportions lately between the quality of the furnishings and the food, so it's fortunate that Big Boy focuses squarely on the latter. Two patties, one spicy and one ackee and saltfish, and a slice of coconut bread, that just as your nose guessed, are clearly made in house from fresh ingredients, like everything else. And the ackee doesn't actually kill you, so instead you can continue to eat yourself to death!

Red pea soup, that even if Jamaicans actually make it with red kidney beans, doesn't make you want to take a "pea" - smooth and rich tasting. Forget about those mushy peas you had to eat in British primary school, the Jamaicans decided to do their own thing 56 years ago and kick butt at it!

Homemade juices and drinks, spanning flavors as exotic as sorrel and Irish moss, served in custom-designed label bottles with an ingredient list you can spell even if you skipped history class and tried to pay for your meal with pound sterling. Eat your heart out Jamba Juice! Okay, something healthy along the way...that's cheating, isn't it? Let's get back on track with the main courses that when combined would make a man so fat that everyone who drives around him would run out of gas!

Three humongous Styrofoam containers of stewed and curry chicken, and the ne plus ultra of stews here, the oxtail with beans. Don't be fooled or tempted by the soupçon of cabbage slaw with vividly colored peas, carrots and kernels of corn hanging off it, as tasty as it may be - get yourself carbloaded by the rice and peas on the side, with meat sweats to boot! And yeah, if you're still not dead yet, work it all off by swimming 735 miles across the Gulf of Mexico to Jamaica which should burn off all 500,000 calories or so!

Oh, except there's one little snag. Cuba's in the way. I never did pay attention in geography class. But the one thing I have been fortunate enough to learn at Brown's is that Jamaica is a country with enormous culinary wealth and judging it by a couple of poor restaurants amidst the proliferation of Caribbean treasure in a state with almost 250,000 Jamaicans was very unwise. There might not be a jerk chicken in every pot in Florida, but there were plenty more fish in the sea, and I'm proud to say Brown's is the catch of the day!

There may be a little yellow sign near the cash register that says the equivalent of "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but if Big Boy followed that rule you wouldn't be reading this, would you? Nor might you know about the best Jamaican food in Palm Bay!

The Big Boy says "Brown's is Jamaican - the competition is JamaiCan't!" #iamthebigboy #bigboydiningout

If you want authentic and tasty Jamaican food, you have to try this place. I've been here a few times and the food is consistently good. The patties and soups are delicious. I always ask for fresh coco bread when I get it. I'm not sure if it's made on site. It's not the best or worst I've had. It's just ok. During our last visit my family order goat roti, stewed chicken, (very spicy/pepper hot) jerk chicken and chicken soup. Everything was excellent and fresh. The few times I ordered escoveitch fish it was just ok. It's too expensive for me to semi-like it. I like this place.