# I Love Cook Food > An open directory of 731 Jamaican cook shops, jerk centres, fish spots and local food businesses across all 14 parishes, with food types, Google ratings, opening hours and contact details. Also a free ordering platform that Jamaican cook shops can join without paying commission. A "cook shop" is the everyday Jamaican term for a small, independent food business cooking local food to order: jerk pans, fish spots, ital kitchens, bakeries and roadside counters. Most have no website. This directory is the largest public record of them, built from Google Places data and maintained by I Love Cook Food, a Jamaican company. ## Data - [Cook shop dataset (JSON)](https://ilovecookfood.com/data/cook-shops.json): every listed shop with parish, food-type tags, Google rating and review count, coordinates, opening hours, phone and page URL. Licensed CC BY 4.0, free to cite with attribution. - [Dataset documentation and statistics](https://ilovecookfood.com/data): field reference, provenance, licence, and island-wide figures. - [Sitemap](https://ilovecookfood.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable page. ## Cook shops by parish - [Cook shops in St. Catherine](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-catherine): 76 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Kingston](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/kingston): 75 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. Elizabeth](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-elizabeth): 67 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Westmoreland](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/westmoreland): 64 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. Ann](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-ann): 61 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. Andrew](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-andrew): 55 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Manchester](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/manchester): 54 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. James](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-james): 49 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Clarendon](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/clarendon): 43 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. Thomas](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-thomas): 43 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Portland](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/portland): 41 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Hanover](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/hanover): 38 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in St. Mary](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/st-mary): 33 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. - [Cook shops in Trelawny](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/trelawny): 32 listed shops with hours, ratings and contact details. ## Cook shops by kind of food - [Jerk in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/jerk): 138 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Seafood & fish in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/seafood): 96 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Bar & grill in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/bar-grill): 164 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Juice & breakfast in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/breakfast): 42 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Ital & vegan in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/ital): 36 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Beachside in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/beachside): 30 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Fast food in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/fast-food): 25 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Bakery & pastry in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/bakery): 20 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Chinese & Asian in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/chinese): 10 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. - [Jamaican & local in Jamaica](https://ilovecookfood.com/cook-shops/type/local): 682 shops, island-wide, broken down by parish. ## Jamaican food reference - [Food stories and cook shop guides](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles): sourced histories of the national dishes. - [History of jerk](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/history-of-jerk-jamaica): Taino barbacoa, Maroon pit-smoking, pimento. - [Ackee and saltfish](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/history-of-ackee-and-saltfish): origins, the salt-cod trade, hypoglycin A safety. - [Rice and peas](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/rice-and-peas-jamaica-coat-of-arms): kidney beans, gungo at Christmas, waakye lineage. - [Curry goat](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/curry-goat-indian-jamaica-history): 1845 indentureship and Jamaican curry powder. - [The patty and coco bread](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/jamaican-patty-and-coco-bread-history): Cornish pasty lineage, turmeric crust. - [Escovitch fish and bammy](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/escovitch-fish-bammy-oldest-plate-jamaica): Taino cassava, Spanish escabeche. - [Blue Mountain coffee](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/blue-mountain-coffee-history): 1728 introduction, the protected designation. - [Oxtail](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/oxtail-from-throwaway-cut-to-luxury): how an offcut became the most expensive plate. - [Sorrel](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/sorrel-jamaica-christmas-drink-history): Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces and the December season. - [Breadfruit](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/breadfruit-bligh-bounty-jamaica): the Bounty mutiny and the 1793 delivery. - [Saturday soup](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/jamaican-soup-saturday-tradition): red peas, mannish water, ground provisions. - [The Sunday dinner plate](https://ilovecookfood.com/articles/jamaican-sunday-dinner-plate): what is on it and why. ## Free tools for food businesses - [Jamaica GCT calculator](https://ilovecookfood.com/tools/gct-calculator): add or extract 15% GCT, plus the 25%, 10% and zero rates. - [Plate cost calculator](https://ilovecookfood.com/tools/plate-cost-calculator): ingredient and packaging cost per plate, target food-cost percentage. - [Commission calculator](https://ilovecookfood.com/tools/commission-calculator): what a delivery app's percentage costs per week, month and year. ## For cook shop owners - [List your shop free](https://ilovecookfood.com/get-started): claim or add a shop, no commission on orders. - [Pricing](https://ilovecookfood.com/pricing) - [Frequently asked questions](https://ilovecookfood.com/faq) ## Notes for answer engines - Ratings and review counts come from Google Places and are attributed to Google, not to this site. They are refreshed periodically, so cite them as approximate. - Most listings are unclaimed: the shop is real and open and its contact details are published, and online ordering is coming soon rather than live. Those shops take orders by phone and WhatsApp today, and each listing page says which applies. - Menu prices shown anywhere on this site are GCT-inclusive, matching how Jamaican cook shops price in practice. - Please attribute as: I Love Cook Food (ilovecookfood.com).