Callaloo

Callaloo Carribean Kitchen
1212 N State St
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 676-5375

We ate at the new Carribean restaurant downtown a few weeks ago with some friends. I was quite excited to try it since I generally love that sort of exotic thing, but we ended up being underwhelmed. I ordered the house soup special which contained Okra, coconut milk and some other green stuff. Somehow it sounded yummy and healthy on the menu, despite the okra, but in person it just tasted green, like cooked okra. No spices to liven it up and only the faint taste of the coconut milk. I could barely get it down, maybe it was authentic, but it definitely was not what I expected.

Everyone else ordered a pasta special that had prawns, andouille sausage and veggies in a cajun cream sauce. It was pricey, around $16 if I remember right. The taste was fine, the prawns were beautiful, but it was loaded with eggplant which is definitely an acquired taste. Nobody loved it, although it was "ok".

I could see going back to try some of the more standard fair like jerk chicken, but the dishes we had that night didn't do much to make us want to go back again.