(This venue is closed.) The national dish of Jamaica has the looks and the texture of an eggy scramble. Those yolk-yellow tidbits, however, are actually ackee, a tropical fruit native to West Africa. In New York, the fruit is invariably canned; its partners are typically salt cod, plus boiled flour dumplings, johnnycakes, or rice and beans; and the dish is offered almost exclusively at breakfasttime. The ackee tempered the saltiness of the fish considerably without offering much flavor of its own, though since I've never tasted it fresh, I can't tell you what flavor that might be.
Sally's is a steam-table eatery with a half-dozen seats, not a restaurant proper, but the food on display made an uncommonly good appearance. Worth a look.
Sally's Restaurant
1444 Fulton St. (Brooklyn-Kingston Aves.), Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
718-771-3138
