J'can food like you've never had it

Sugar cane shrimp skewers is a main course with a twist, from Gimbilyn, the restaurant at the Alhambra Inn.

"The food this year comes with with a little difference," explains Lance Gillespie, operations manager at Alhambra Inn.

The sugar cane shrimp skewers is a unique dish with distinct sweet and spicy flavours. A fundamentally seafood dish, the shrimp are skewered using strips of sugar cane and are then served over linguini pasta and drizzled with a spicy crab sauce.

"Usually, when you eat a skewer, you throw away the stick. This one you can actually eat." Gillespie said of the sugar cane skewers.

With this dish being no exception, Gillespie said the items on Gimbilyn's Gleaner-sponsored Restaurant Week menu have a Jamaican element to them, for instance polenta and jerk sausage.

"We try to make sure that what we offer is first and foremost Jamaican," he said.

These tastes of Jamaica are fused into the Gimbilyn's menu, which is in the Savoury category for this year, and are sure to please those in search of creative food fusion.

- S.W.G.