Cindys Cuisine

Cindy's Cuisine is a small Caribbean kitchen tucked into Pittar Street in the West End of Derby, sitting in the inner-suburb grid south of Friar Gate. The shop runs Jamaican-and-British cooking — jerk chicken and curry goat sit alongside English staples on the menu, which gives it a slightly different angle to the more straight-Caribbean kitchens up on Normanton Road.

The Caribbean side carries the standards — jerk chicken either grilled or in stew with rice and peas, curry goat slow-cooked in scotch bonnet and allspice, ackee and saltfish when in stock, and patties as the takeaway-counter option. The English side is the home-cooking spread that Caribbean cafés in this part of Derby have historically run alongside the jerk: pies, chops and a roast.

The shop is small — counter service rather than a sit-down dining room — and the trade is mostly local collection and a small Caribbean-eats following from across Derby who know the kitchen by name. Reviewers are sparse but uniformly positive on the food and the friendliness of service; the shop holds a current Food Hygiene rating. Worth phoning ahead to check what's on that day, as the menu rotates with what's being cooked.