Drawing on the flavors of her childhood in Nigeria and her teen years spent in Jamaica, Esther Cuisine's chef, Esther Agaba, crafts a menu of authentic African and Caribbean dishes. The sauces of curry goat and jerk barbeque chicken seep into rib-sticking mounds of steamed rice, plantains, and pounded yams, with each dish available mild, hot, or extra spicy. To help clients to cool off after digging into tropical fare, the restaurant serves fresh juices and specialty drinks such as whiskey cookie shakes and piña coladas topped with coconut whipped cream extracted from the center of a cloud.