Dinner by Rosh delivers for Valentine’s
Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:52 AMAinsworth Morris/Staff Reporter
Entrepreneur Roshedo Williams has curated a special dinner option for those who don’t want to get their hands dirty this Valentine’s Day or are too busy to whip up a fantastic dinner.
Williams’s Dinner by Rosh packages, orders for which end today, come with two menus: seafood and regular. The regular package includes appetisers with a garden salad and charcuterie box; rosemary butter roasted half chicken, barbecue baby back ribs, and pot roast beef entrée; rice and peas, mac and cheese, roasted potatoes, and rosemary mashed potatoes sides; and chocolate-covered strawberries for the complimentary dessert. The seafood option adds a peppered shrimp appetiser and substitutes the poultry and red meat entrée with a garlic butter lobster, seafood linguine, and pan-seared salmon.
Each box comes with a Moët and Chandon Imperial Brut Mini.
Williams told Food that she decided to offer this special service on Valentine’s Day because she knows of the struggle to secure reservations at restaurants, especially when it’s close to February 14.
“I decided to do this just for the convenience because of how busy it really is on Valentine’s Day, and especially since this Valentine’s Day falls on a Friday. I was also thinking about creating a package that comes with everything, so if you don’t want to have it [dinner] at home, you can have it anywhere, such as a picnic date,” Williams, who has a great deal of experience in the food industry primarily through her position as operations manager for Tropical Ornamental Fish Farm and Mega Meats, told Food.
“There [are] also the utensils and the serving plates [in the boxes]. That was really my intent when I was creating these packages,” she said.
Williams has been the operations manager at Tropical Ornamental Fish Farm located in St Catherine for the last eight years. The business has a variety of pet fish, from livebreeders to cichlids, coy fish, and many more. The Mega Meats meat shop, which is a family-owned business located in downtown Kingston, sells a variety of meat and poultry items.
‘Started cooking when I was young’
Food and cooking have been a passion for Williams since the age of 13. “I had started cooking when I was young and was cooking in the kitchen with my grandma, Gertrude Johnson, often,” she shared, adding that she does not have a favourite meal that she likes to cook.
“Cooking is my passion, so that [preparing the menu], it took some time because I do have other projects working on, so [it took] about a year [to develop the food in the boxes],” she told Food.
Dinner by Rosh has been on her mind since before Valentine’s Day last year, but she could not launch it last year because she had to curate and coordinate the menu and conduct food testing and tasting as well as find the perfect, sturdy customised box “for all the food to fit and for delivery”.
“Really and truly, what it was, was calling around and trying to make a reservation on Valentine’s Day. You know when you are busy, you are not thinking about making reservations until it’s, maybe, a day before Valentine’s Day, which was the issue I was having,” she said of creating the meal-delivery service.
After this first stint on Friday, Williams intends to return with a second set of boxes for Mother’s Day with a dinner menu included and a separate brunch event.
For those interested, delivery service is being offered in the Corporate Area and some parts of St Catherine and pick-up service for Portmore only.
Dinner by Rosh may be contacted via email at dinnerbyrosh@gmail.com or by phone at (876) 495-5721.