Wray’s Caribbean and Seafood Cuisine
“Soft reggae music, very excellent service from our server Misha and even the chef was welcoming.”
“The Host, Michael was very helpful.”
“Incredible jerked meats, plantain just right, and very good drinks, including tequila with Ting and Mojitos with plenty of fresh mint.”
Wray’s Caribbean and Seafood Cuisine
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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Wray's is on the tail end of Myrtle Ave. 2 doors down from SoCo. That's a tough spot to be. Anyone who is down at that end of Myrtle is most likely there for SoCo in the first place, which means your food really has to stand out to get people to go to you instead of next door to a more established and well known eatery.
On this afternoon. SoCo had a live band out front for … I'm not sure why. It was loud and off putting so we decided to go into Wray's instead.
The first good sign was that this place was full of Caribbean people. That's always good because it shows that the food they are making caters to people who grew up eating the type of food.
We ordered the Half Roasted chicken clocking in at $16 and the oxtail and plantains clocking in at $22. These are pretty pricey. $16 gets you entire chicken at Pio Pio, the standard of roasted chicken experiences. Oxtail at $22 better be fucking amazing.
Sadly, neither hit the mark. The Half Roasted chicken was met with comments of "tastes really plain" immediately after my friend dug into it. I tasted it for myself and surely enough it tasted plain. I mean, no flavor what-so-ever plain. In fact I'm almost kind of impressed they managed to cook a chicken that was completely devoid of any flavoring. We had to ask them for jerk and then hot sauce to make it kind of edible.
The oxtail I had high expectations for since it was $22. It was very tender and well cooked but a tad too salty. Just off the mark. It's hard to justify $22 oxtail especially if you don't get the texture and flavor right. And unfortunately Wray's only managed to hit one out of two here.
Overall the place is just a tad too pricey and the food not well executed enough to justify the price. That leaves you in no man's land.
I tried to give this place a chance. I read the reviews and still decided to stop in. I ignored the first warning sign (it was empty) and still ordered a drink and food. The collard greens were horrible, the rice was dry and the oxtail was mediocre. I don't have a problem spending money on quality food but this was far from it. Save yourself the time and coins by going to a West Indian spot in Flatbush. This is unacceptable for Brooklyn! This is a disgrace to the Caribbean culture. The only thing authentic is the music!
I went to Wray's for a nice family dinner. Wow, talk about the most disappointing meal I've had in a long time. I ordered the Rasta Pasta with shrimp, the pasta was overcooked and the shrimp tasted a little strange. My mom ordered the grilled salmon, the salmon was rotten… ROTTEN.
We also ordered the macaroni and cheese balls (below average). The curry goat was a little on the salty side and the roti was hard. I mean ROCK HARD. It was so disappointing.
None of us finished our meals, and sent them back to the kitchen. The table next to us sent their food back as well. This place is way too expensive for the below average and rotten food they serve. I would not recommend this place.
A friend of mine held a surprise birthday dinner here for her boyfriend. We arrived a half hour before the birthday boy arrived. He got there, greeted everyone, and we still didn't have the drinks we ordered. Obviously we came in during shift change but it took wayyyyy too long to swap registers. So basically we went 45 minutes to an hour waiting for drinks. I only wanted a glass Pinot Grigio. Was it really busy? Nah.
Once everyone sat down at the table with a drink from the bar, we ordered our food. I was so scared to order because of the other reviews lol. I ended up ordering the cod fritters appetizer and the BBQ chicken entree with white rice and collard greens. I wanted Mac & Cheese Balls but they were out. My friend also asked for veggies and they were out….at 8pm on a Saturday night in a Caribbean Restaurant? Well that sucks!
We waited forever for our meals. In the meantime we talked, danced in our seats to the reggae music, and I ordered the Strawberry Lemonade Cocktail with my choice of Vodka, Ciroc Peach. It could have been a little stronger but it was very tasty. I highly recommend using Ciroc Peach. The appetizer came in 40 minutes, the food came 50 minutes later. I saw surrounding tables come in after us, eat, and leave before we even got our food. It was 10 of us but Geez! You can clearly see the kitchen from the tables and there was only one chef on this Saturday evening.
I wasn't too fond of the cod fritters and I disliked the curry sauce it came with so that was a little depressing but my BBQ chicken meal was really good. The collards were very well seasoned and a little spicy. I don't even like spicy food but I enjoyed it. Tasted the plantain and they were very good also.
The food was better than the service. It wasn't service she provided; She was simply an order taker. The young man who was doing food deliveries and assisting in the kitchen was much more helpful and polite than she was. I made sure he received a tip as well.