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| - In this super casual, cafeteria-style restaurant, a large green polyvinyl silhouette cutout of Bob Marley greets you in the seating area where you should get together and feel alright. Heh heh heh.
The friendly lady at the counter with a Caribbean accent welcomed us to grab a seat and read through the menu if we hadn't yet made our dish decisions yet. With a kindly "What you want, honey?" I picked the goat curry roti while my friend chose jerk chicken, adding an extra dollar for the baked plaintain.
Oh oh oh, I have to put it out there in the Yelp world right now that my friend purposely left out the byline of 1 Love Kitchen: it's *healthy* Caribbean food. Yuck, what is this healthy bidniss? S, you trickster.
It turned out to be OK though, as the goat curry was still super flavourful. A little too much on the salty side, but this is hypertension talking, not necessarily my taste buds. My friends' jerk chicken had a 3-chilli label denoted on the menu, warning that it should be considered an extra spicy level. I stole a bite, and would've personally listed it as mild-low medium at max, maybe because I had been expecting a ton of gut-burning Scotch bonnets in it. The baked plaintain was sweet, with the blackened surface having been caramelized by the heat.
My goat curry was wrapped in a whole wheat roti and was pretty tasty, strong in goat flavour, with bits of potato in it to help soak up more curry sauce. I would say it's good if you like goat, but for someone like my friend who dislikes game meats it "Tastes like crayons and boiled wool." Yum.
There were a couple other tables in use while we were there but was otherwise more of a takeout place without too many people, so it's a viable option for anyone in a bit of a rush to eat quickly without any wait time. Credit cards are accepted.
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