A Jamaican beef patty is my #1 food in the world
Born in Jamaica, raised in New York, hooked on beef patties my whole life. This is the pilgrimage - city by city, country by country - to crown the best one on earth.
how it started
"There's a beef patty, and then there's a meat patty."
A spot in the Bronx went viral on TikTok, so I flew to New York to try it. It was a letdown - and that disappointment lit the fuse. If I was going to call out a bad one, I had to go find the best ones. Everywhere. That's the tour.
The tour
just the beef patty
This tour is about one thing: the pure Jamaican beef patty. No coco bread, no cheese, no veggie or chicken patty - just the patty, judged on its own. And along the way, I'm perfecting my own recipe too - from scratch, with real beef suet.
the one rule
"If it's not flaky, it's not a beef patty."
the route
Anchor cities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Jamaica - plus one-off day trips along the way, ending where the beef patty was born.
+ one-off day tripsTennessee · Los Angeles · Connecticut · Maryland · Indiana
the spots
No chains-only lists. These are the spots making patties in house, city by city - and the list keeps growing as the tour rolls on.
what gets made
This isn't one post. It's an ongoing body of content - long-form storytelling plus a steady drip of short-form from every stop.
One long-form documentary per city - the spots, the rankings, the people, the story of the patty in that place.
YouTube · coming soonMultiple TikToks per spot. Dozens of spots per city means a constant stream of content the whole tour long.
TikTokevery city · every country · one standard
Let's take the tour together.
Follow the tour on TikTok