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How to find good Haitian food

Haitian food is bold, citrusy and fried — pork marinated in sour orange, pickled cabbage with Scotch bonnet heat, black mushroom rice — and the best places are small, cash-friendly and packed on weekends.

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What separates a good one from a bad one

Griot crisp outside and tender inside — Pork shoulder marinated in sour orange and epis, braised, then fried. It is the dish to judge a Haitian kitchen by.
Pikliz with real fire — Pickled cabbage, carrots and Scotch bonnet in vinegar. It should be sharp and hot, and it goes on everything.
Epis — The green seasoning base of parsley, garlic, peppers and herbs. Food that tastes of it is home cooking.
Diri djon djon — Rice cooked with black mushrooms until it turns dark grey and earthy. Special, and not every place makes it.
Bannann peze — Twice-fried plantains, crisp and salty.

What to order

Griot — With pikliz and plantains.
Tassot — Fried goat or beef.
Diri djon djon — If available.
Legume — Vegetable and meat stew.
Soup joumou — Pumpkin soup, especially around New Year.

Where to find Haitian food

Open listings put 335 Haitian restaurants across the US. These are the cities and campuses with the most of them.

Cities with the most

Orlando, FL 21 Miami, FL 18 North Miami, FL 11 Tampa, FL 8 Lauderhill, FL 8 Fort Lauderdale, FL 8 West Palm Beach, FL 7 New York, NY 7

Campuses with the most within a mile

Seton Hall University 4 Brooklyn 4

A few to start with

Phil's Bakery — Orlando, FL
2469 S Orange Blossom Trl, Orlando
Chez Le Bebe — Miami, FL
114 NE 54th St, Miami
Lakay Food Spot — North Miami, FL
12325 NE 6th Ave, North Miami
3 Guys Caribbean Restaurant — Tampa, FL
3503 E Hillsborough Ave Ste A, Tampa
Wally House Of Flavors Restaurant — Lauderhill, FL
4711 NW 14th St, Lauderhill
Cuisine Lakay — Fort Lauderdale, FL
119 W Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale

Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.

How Savor Scout looks for it

The search reads for griot, pikliz, djon djon and Haitian, so Haitian kitchens are not lost under the broader Caribbean label.

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Looking in a particular city?

Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.

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Caribbean food, Jamaican food, Dominican food

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