The Black Oven - Northampton

Friends of mine had recommended trying the black oven as I am a lover of all things carribean. Ate in twice but I always go in on a Sunday and order ackee and saltfish to take away it's the best!!! Restaurant itself is beautifully decorated menu quite varied since a relaunch. My favourite place by far. Chefs produce real authentic cuisine portions and prices reasonable staff very friendly. Shout out to Liam and Mel who always greet me with a big smile. Highly recommended #onelove

Lovely food and service have been many times and never disappointed .

Visited this restaurant one Thursday with my wife to try some caribbean food. I have to say it did not look much from the outside but what a little gem it was. They had opened late because of a flood and advised us right at the start they were running quite late with their prep (we were there early) but we decided to wait it out. The staff (and the owner) were very friendly and engaging and supplied a free drink and some wings as an apology for the delay. When the food came (goat curry) it was really nice. This is not fine dining and does not pretend to be. Rather the owner and his brother want to serve the food of their parents and grandparents, authentic. It was a lovely evening and we will definitely go back

After having visited in July and had a good experience wanted to go again with a different group for a meal. Had to book in person as their phone line is still not working from nearly 2 mths ago and they didn't respond to FB either! Arrived and they didn't have our booking, even suggesting that we had the wrong place! There was only 2 others in the restaurant, not surprised if you can;t book! Only had 1 type of cocktail after the first 2 were served, no ales just bottled lager and no malibu coke either. They did have most of the starters and they were all good. Did have a couple of the mains but the ones we wanted were all there and tasted nice on arrival. We wanted to finish with dessert so asked for the menus and selected what we wanted to only be told that fruit cake was the only item available so we paid the bill and went to the nearest supermarket to buy our dessert and took it home to eat.Really not sure how long they want to stay in business in you can't book easily, buy a drink or a dessert that you want? Its a real shame.

I have wanted to go here for a while, so booked it to celebrate husbands birthday. I booked a table, but there was no need it was very quiet, which makes it difficult to understand why the service was so poor, food delivery slow and food tepid.The hostess/waitress was on her phone most the evening. We managed to get some drinks when she eventually took our food order! We had to go up to counter for a second drink and the bill.Our main dishes were brought out before our plates were cleared awsy. The poor lady from the kitchen had to do that as well as issue food as the hostess/waitress was busy..on her phone. Starters were hot, but main dishes were lukewarm, but by this point we just wanted to leave. So disappointed, it could be a great place, but the service was non existant. We tried to not let it ruin what had been a great day.