Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant

Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant sits at 3294 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, roughly midway between Fortune restaurant to the south and the Bak A Yaad and Singh’s Roti cluster near the Shops at Oriole Estates to the north. Its Yellow Pages listing puts the business at twenty-seven years in operation, which would trace its Lauderdale Lakes roots back to roughly the late 1990s, making it one of the longer-running Caribbean kitchens on this stretch of the corridor.

Florida corporate records show the Lauderdale Lakes location tied to Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant & Bakery, Inc., an active corporation, and its listing category on Yellow Pages combines Caribbean and bakery classifications, pointing to a menu that pairs a steam-tray Caribbean dinner counter with baked goods, a common combination among Jamaican and broader West Indian restaurants that also sell patties, hard dough bread, or spice buns. The restaurant closes on Sundays, a detail worth knowing for anyone planning a weekend visit, and keeps a slightly extended schedule on Fridays and Saturdays, staying open until 9:30pm rather than the 8:30pm close observed the rest of the week.

Sunbiz records also list two related active entities that use the Donna’s Caribbean name: a design-and-wordmark trademark registration protecting the restaurant’s red-and-black stylized logo, and a separate company called Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant in the Pines, LLC, which points to a second family-owned location operating in the Pembroke Pines area, along with a listing for a Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant location in neighboring Lauderhill found through the same directory search used to compile this profile. Taken together, these records describe a small, family-owned Caribbean restaurant group with a handful of South Florida locations rather than a single freestanding shop, though each location appears to be run under its own separate corporate filing rather than a centralized franchise structure, and the Lauderdale Lakes address remains listed as the business’s primary Yellow Pages entry.

The restaurant’s own website, donnascaribbean.com, is referenced in its directory listing, though it was not independently loaded for this profile, so menu items, pricing, and current photos were not confirmed beyond what the Yellow Pages entry and Sunbiz filings provide. No customer reviews were found attached to any directory checked. For residents of a city where Jamaican, Haitian and other West Indian households make up a large share of the population, a restaurant with nearly three decades on North State Road 7 and a bakery counter alongside its dinner menu represents the kind of long-tenured, family-run business that anchors the neighborhood’s food scene, distinct from the newer Caribbean counters that have opened along the same corridor in the past five to ten years.