Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant is a contemporary lifestyle restaurant, lounge and bar that embraces Middle Eastern cuisine and culture with a modern twist, enhanced by vibrant entertainment elements.

Since its launch the establishment has added a stylish and exciting new highlight to Portmore’s increasingly sophisticated dining scene. The menu features passionately composed dishes inspired by the great Levant, Middle Eastern and Moroccan cuisine with a focus on high-quality, fresh ingredients, the use of indigenous spices, contemporary cooking methods and careful presentation. The culinary vision is to set quintessentially authentic flavours into a contemporary, modern context. Restaurants in Portmore tend to be basic but the Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant is neither. It’s a fashionably modern place, built into a railway arch, attracting people who appreciate interesting food. The Port Henderson Market location is of course perfect for food lovers, as it allows you to shop for victuals, then drop your bags and be pampered by the attentive staff.

Muhummara is a dip that, once discovered, can become as addictive as swaying your hips to Rai music. Roasted red peppers, here with toasted nuts, form a rough paste which in its native Aleppo is then flavoured in many variations. The versions I have had from Syria and Turkey were far hotter; but this one, though lacking the full drama of flavours, was spicy enough. Meze dishes are the highlight of Lebanese cooking, and here at the Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant the fried snacks, such as lamb or spinach kibbeh, which look a bit like Scotch eggs, were excellent. The vegetarian dishes are inventive; baby pickled aubergine is stuffed with red pepper and walnut for the attractively textured dish called magdous.

The Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant is well- known for its great chop suey, mallah chicken and chow mein, among others. They have now added Jamaican soups to the menu, such as peas soup and mannish water. For persons who are seafood lovers, fish, lobster and shrimp are done to order. Middle Eastern’s Jerk Fridays also provide something different for customers, with jerk fish, pork and chicken, served with a variety of side orders that include bread, roasted breadfruit, festivals and even turned cornmeal. With its fashionable buzz and lively energy, there’s no other Levantine restaurant in Portmore quite like the Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant. The setting at this enclave of proper Middle Eastern cooking in Port Henderson Market is neither ‘Arabian Nights’ theme park nor brightly-lit marble palace. The room has lots of bare wall, and the lighting’s low and atmospheric.

The Wildflower Middle Eastern Restaurant is open daily, 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. The restaurant is an excellent choice for BYOB in Portmore. For your convenience, free parking is available to all customers. They take pride in offering the best Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine in the area. All their food is prepared fresh in-house with locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. Even the spices are dried and ground, in-house, to ensure the best flavour and freshest taste.

* Fried Chicken: $450

* Sweet & Sour Chicken: $450

* Chow Mein: $900