In 1979, Mr. Jerk had its humble beginning in Toronto in the backroom of a small West Indian grocery chain called Linstead Market. The original restaurant was established in 1986 in a very small space in the Peanut Plaza in North York — so small that a Toronto Sun reporter described it as not much larger than a closet.
No one could have imagined what a phenomenon this little restaurant would unleash when they offered authentic Jamaican jerk products to Toronto for the first time outside of Jamaica. For over 40 years, Mr. Jerk's reputation for having some of the finest jerk products has spread far and wide.

