Jerk Hut Island Grille & Beach Club
The Fowler Avenue room with the bright teal roof is the flagship of four Jerk Hut locations, all of them in Tampa, and it is the only one that is a full restaurant rather than a carryout window. It runs a Jamaican lunch buffet Monday through Friday and a Sunday brunch buffet with live reggae, alongside a full liquor bar and a separate carryout counter. On Friday nights the patio turns into a market of Tampa Bay vendors with live cooking stations that runs to midnight, and the ladies' night behind it goes to 3am. The Tampa Bay Times included Jerk Hut in its list of Tampa Bay's 25 most iconic restaurants, a list that required at least a decade in business to qualify.
Happy hour & specials
- Happy hour 4 to 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday: 2 house liquors for the price of 1. Published by the venue
- Ladies Night every Friday 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.: free entry, drink specials for the ladies, and rum punch and food on sale. Published by the venue
Checked October 15, 2026. Deals change, so use the venue's own page for today.
- Address
- 1241 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL
- Phone
- (813) 565-3644
- Website
- jerkhut.com
- Cuisine
- jamaican, caribbean
- Good to know
- Live Music, Late Night, Patio, Brunch, Institution, Group Friendly, Long Running, Happy Hour, Bar Specials
- Verification
- Details researched September 19, 2026. Hours and offerings change, so confirm with the venue before visiting.
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- Street address on file: yes
- Neighborhood assigned: yes
- Phone number published: yes
- Website on file: yes
- Hours published: no Hours drive the most time-sensitive question in local search.
- Cuisine or specialty described: yes
- Photography on file: yes
- Website reachable: pass HTTP 200
- Served over HTTPS: pass
- Structured data present: fail Structured data is how a machine knows this page describes a restaurant rather than a blog post.
- Declares a business type: fail A Restaurant, BarOrPub, or LocalBusiness type is what puts a venue into local answer sets.
- Page description written: fail The description is what gets quoted when a search engine or assistant summarizes the venue.
- Menu linked from the homepage: pass
- Hours published on site: fail Hours are the most time-sensitive fact in local search and the most commonly stale.
- Address published on site: pass
- Social profiles linked: pass instagram.com, facebook.com, twitter.com
- Open to AI crawlers: pass No AI crawler is blocked in robots.txt.
Website checks last run October 11, 2026 against the venue's own site.
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