Woody's Low Bridge Place

Woody’s Low Bridge Place

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Woody’s Low Bridge Place has been operating in Port Antonio since 1986 and is run by Charles “Woody” Cousins and his wife, Cherry Cousins.

Woody’s specialises in homemade burgers, all made from local ingredients. Vegetarians are also well catered for with vegetarian burgers, cheesedogs and grilled cheese sandwiches. Hotdogs and fries are also available. Three course meals and Jamaican classics such as curried goat and jerk chicken can also be made to order. If special food is required, it is necessary to call in the morning, as all food is cooked to order, just how Cherry and Woody would cook for themselves.

Special orders are available for any number of diners. However, for larger parties, Woody’s will arrange entertainment with a live band and Woody himself taking the microphone.

Home made jerk seasoning

Home made jerk seasoning
Cherry makes homemade jerk seasoning from local ingredients. Jars of seasoning are available for customers to buy and try out at home. Cherry was not in the bar last time I visited but hopefully I will be able to speak to her next time i’m in Port Antonio.

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Woody's Low Bridge Place

Chef Cherry Cousins and her impresario husband/server/maitre d’/reggae crooner Papa Woody run this roadside shack, the bar papered and painted with Jamaican-style quips of wisdom, the dining room a corrugated tin teepee over plastic tables ringed by beachy murals.

During the day, this is the best spot in Jamaica for burgers and crispy fries—including excellent homemade vegetable burgers so good even carnivores often opt for one (perhaps because the beef burgers are a bit on the small side)—accompanied by a cold Red Stripe or spicy homemade ginger beer.

Woody’s Low Bridge Place

Woody’s Low Bridge Place



History of Woody’s
Woody was born in Kingston but his family moved to the Drapers district of Port Antonio when he was a baby. He has been working in the local tourist industry since 1963. In words which echo the famous line from The Godfather, he told me that he “Kept on trying to get out of the tourism game but something always draws me back in.” His last attempt to venture in to a new field was the Low Bridge place property. Woody intended to run the business as a stall, selling homemade corned pork. However, he was working as an MC at the Fern Hill Club at the time and was very popular with the guests. They told him that his people skills would be wasted selling corned pork by the road and talked him in to setting up a bar. Woody continued to work at the Fern Hill hotel, leaving Cherry to run the bar. Woody tells me that,