For years this corner was Rasta Pasta, a Kensington landmark fusing Jamaican spice with Italian pasta. It closed in late 2025 and reopened weeks later as Kensington Jerk and Pasta — same chefs, same recipes, new name. The menu still pairs jerk chicken and curry goat with the "rasta pasta" that made the original famous: penne in a creamy, scotch-bonnet-spiked sauce.
It is a small takeout-leaning spot with a few seats and a reggae soundtrack, exactly the kind of cheerful, idiosyncratic place Kensington is built on. Come for the jerk, stay for the pasta, eat it on the curb.