There used to be a Long John Silver’s on LaFayette Road in Fort Oglethorpe as you head toward the Chickamauga Battlefields. It closed a while back after they built a new one on Battlefield Parkway. That former location has been reinvented as Fi Mi Pot Jamaican Restaurant.
Growing up in Miami, I often drove to the Little Jamaica neighborhood to grab some curried chicken or goat or braised oxtail. Sometimes it was just to pick up some spicy beef patties.
When I moved to Chattanooga, I found and have dined R&N Irie Jamaican on Dayton Blvd. They serve great food made by owner Robert Officer.
Fi Mi Pot is much closer to my house, and as it turns out, Fi Mi Pot is owned by Dwight Officer, Robert’s brother. They were born and raised in Jamaica. According to his website Dwight graduated from Spanish Town Comprehensive High School and began his culinary journey soon after…