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| - Juicy, spicy, flavourful rotis with a variety of options for fillings. Add-ons can make the price creep up and I hear so many people (me included) ordering a boneless chicken roti with spinach it might as well be on the menu. The extras - plantain chips, grapefruit soda, dboules and patties, might make this place a good stop for a snack too. But be warned... they suffer from THE SLOWNESS.
I've walked up to the door, seen a line-up of more than 2 or 3 people, and done a U-turn. If they have more than a few people in the service slows to a crawl. Sometimes the cashier gets busy and takes a while processing orders. Other times you'll order and pay promptly, only to realize that there might be a dozen orders queued up ahead of you. Since you order from someone not in the prep area, you don't ever hear, "Oh we're waiting on more chicken. Would you like something else instead?" You make your order and it gets passed to the prep area and if they're making a new batch of curried chicken or potatos or heaven forbid waiting on rotis to come out of the back kitchen your only option is to sit and wait.
Speaking of sitting and waiting, that seems to be what most of the seating is for. There is a lot of seating here, with two rooms, but considering how long service takes I can't image the whole place full of customers all eating at once. On any given night half the seated customers are people simply waiting for their take-out orders.
I've even tried calling ahead in hopes of being able to swing by and grab my dinner quickly only to have them not even start working on my roti until I came in the door and paid up. Another attempt to order ahead proved fruitless because the wait to even get to the cashier was so long. Not cool.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoy getting dinner from here. But if you're in any kind of hurry at all, or on a tight schedule, don't bother.
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