Piman Bouk Restaurant

Best Oxtails I have ever had in a restaurant. Delicious! They only take cash so bring your dollars :)

Wandered by Piman Bouk Restaurant while staying in Little Haiti. It was my first Haitian meal. I ordered the fried goat and plantain. There was some difficulty communicating with the waitress so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect would come to my table. Along with my correct order I also was served a salad, a mystery sauce/​soup and a bowl of unidentified vegetables. The waitress left several squirt bottles of dressing, one was ranch, the other, something red. Neither the goat nor the plantain were seasoned but the goat tasted fresh and flavorful. The plantain seemed dry and generally lacking flavor.
The place is a a bit ramshackle and dark, but the price was right and the waitress provided competent service.

The food here is very homey and delicious. The portions were more than generous, and the chicken is undoubtedly the most tender well-​cooked chicken I’ve ever had! Everyone was friendly and sweet when I’ve been. This isn’t a «fine dining» restaurant but the food is superb and everything is well seasoned and full of flavor.

Been here twice and enjoyed my food every time!!! I had rice and beans with fries turkey and sweet plantains !!! Can I just say that the turkey was tender and bursting with flavor!!!’ The rice was delicious as well as the passion fruit ! Everyone else enjoyed their food as well! Four stars for the food but one star off for the atmosphere! It was toooo dark!!’ Looked like it was closed from the outside but it’s worth giving it a try !

3.5 stars!
Family-​owned. Simple. Delicious food.
I was visiting the Haitian church in front of this establishment and decided to come here to try some Haitian cuisine. I recommend trying the griot «fried pork». The portions are substantial, and for only $ 9, I got a salad, rice and beans, tostones, and pork. It was just delicious– simple, large, and delicious.
If you are looking to expand your culinary horizons by trying Haitian cuisine, I would recommend coming here. However, do not expect 5 star digs. This place is very simple. Friendly service. A somewhat limited menu (offering salad, rice and tostones with different proteins), and a fine wood interior.

On my last trip to Miami my friends and I needed some real back home food after staying south beach. All of the local Haitian local told us to try here including our taxi driver.
Cons-​I couldn’t tell if it was because of the way we were dressed on this particular Sunday afternoon, but the waitress really took two other tables orders before she came and took our order despite us being their before hand… next time, we will dress in church attire…
The waitress was also not helpful, we ask her for a specific item and instead telling us, she told us that it was on the menu and we should keep looking (frekan-​oui)
Cons #2: The salad dressing, one that looked like Caesar but tasted like ranch and the other thousand island and relish mi!?! i don’t know what that was all about.
Con #3: (passion fruit juice w/​milk) was sour…
Con#4 the first time we went, we did not received any pikliz and the second time they gave us some bootleg pikliz made with hot sauce.
Now on to the pros:
#1: Papaya juice with milk was great same as when i was a kid
#2 Griot (friend pork shoulder chunks) and Tassot Cabrit (Fried goat chunks) was to die for… the tassot was so tender and fresh… the best i’ve had… ever…
#3 The legume… LORD JESUS… They was by far the best of the best omg the meat the crab was so tasteful… and i don’t even like Legumes.
#4: The Rice was ok nothing spectacular to be honest but it wasn’t bad either. (duri blan ak sauce pois nois and duri kole) white rice and black bean sauce or red beans and rice.
The price was great coming from New York, it was nice to buy some griot and legume for $ 7.00 and Tassot for $ 10 when in NY they are 12 and 15.

Went here by mistake. The person gave us the address not the name of the restaurant and when we looked it up on google Piman Bouk came up. However, when we got there it was across the street and it seems like we should have eaten at the location across the street. Oh well next time. I had the fried chicken which was fried well but a bit greasy. The red beans and rice had too many cloves but the pickled spicy sauce was really good and the prices were cheap for the portions. For your Creole fix go elsewhere.

Didn’t like it at all. I completely prefer chez rosie & chef creole. rice might as well have been uncle ben’s with red beans from a can. my chicken stew had pieces of oxtail in it… what?!

This is where YeYe takes us when we’re flying through Little Haiti. You better be hungry!
Good to bring your Haitian friend to help you through the choices and the portion. You could feed three with the portions here. That everything I’ve had here is perfectly and lovingly prepared is like an afterthought with the portions they serve.
Usually when you get portions this size it’s usually to make up for quality. Not so at Piman Bouk Restaurant. When you walk in their front door, they are all business when it comes to eating. If you’re not REALLY hungry, that’s your problem. Haitian’s are a proud people and the Piman Bouk folks can be proud of what they serve.
YeYe picked us up at the airport and KP wanted a nice breakfast with a couple eggs and toast. No luck! Piman Bouk had mais moulin (Haiti’s answer to slow cooked polenta and grits — but even more serious). What they don’t tell you is that the accompanying meat choice is a major portion. I ordered the mais moulin with poussin (fish) and was expecting a plate with a couple pieces of deep fried fish on the side — like I get from my Liberian friends.
Not a chance.
The first sign of trouble — the good kind — was the dinner salad! Yes, the large typical Haitian breakfast has a salad. It was a good salad, the only minus is that they bring out two bottles of salad dressing like they was your Auntie Flo.
Then she comes out with a side dish of the perfectly cooked — corse ground — mais moulin with beans. Like, why a little side plate and where’s the fish?
Oh … MY … God! You better be fully awake in the morning so your eyes can open wide enough to see this! Look at the picture, it’s fo real! We had to eat some first so that it would fit in the frame.
No piece of nothin here. The whole fish is floppin off the ends of the platter, swimmin in butter. YeYe chuckled at the size, «Brother, they brought you the whole SHARK, haha! With a whole banan boule (boiled plantain) in your face, like a big smile, laughing at you cause it knows you can’t eat it all.
Tole ya to bring a good Haitian friend. Except mine was working on a platter of liver and onions of his own. Glad I’m not having my cholesterol checked for another month.
Breakfast also comes with a big glass of fresh squeezed juice — mango this morning. I didn’t really have to say a «big» glass, what else were you expecting?
Make sure you get some of that pikliz on the side, not because you need something more, but pickiz (pickled cabbage and scotch bonnet chili) is the Haitian hot sauce. Goes perfectly with the fish, but Haitians look at you funny when you want pikliz first thing in the morning.
Tout blan se blan…
The previous time we were connecting through Miami from Port au Prince, and we were looking to catch a couple winks at the pad before heading out at 4AM, YeYe brought us by Piman Bouk after 11PM. The weary staff were too happy whip us up few dinners and hang out for some chit-​chat. Once again, food wasn’t our big priority, but the folks at Piman Bouk aren’t sympathetic to light eaters, no mercy!
I ended up with a platter of Lambi (conch) that was first rate. If you thought you liked abalone, then you have to try this. Sea fresh taste, rich, buttery and tender. I wasn’t starving but each bite begged me to eat another. Glad there was a bed to fall into blocks away. But don’t do this every night.
I’m actually NOT a big fish eater so I look forward to when I have a couple days and more time where I can have a leisurely meal at Piman Bouk with some real foodies and a day to recover.