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| - Partner and I were happy to see Caribbean section on the menu including roti, which is hard to find in Calgary. We both got beef roti, which is decently priced (for Calgary, insanely overpriced for Toronto, sigh) and comes with a side of rice/beans+cole slaw or a side salad that has the interesting ingredient of cantaloupe.
Roti arrives and it's weird from the first moment, because it has a sauce on top a la an enchilada (sorta) that looks to have pepper sauce in it, like some sort of gravy with pepper sauce. Now my hubby is Trini and we've had more rotis (and doubles and aloo pies etc etc) in Toronto and in Trinidad per se and we've never seen roti served this way but let it go. Sides looked... okay, but the rice was mushy and the cole slaw almost pure mayonnaise. Partner's salad sounded like a good idea but the melon did NOT work, it was just odd.
As to the roti itself: Roti is a dahlpuri that's wrapped around a filling of curried veg (potatoes and chickepeas, or aloo and channa as they say in TT) and either meat (usually chicken or goat) or more veggies like eggplant, spinach or pumpkin squash. This one had zero chickpeas, UNpeeled potato which is very wrong, some decent beef and... not even a speck of curry. We're talking tinned madras curry that they use in Trinidad- not complex and you can literally buy it off the shelf here. The sauce was sort of Chinese-ish? We got a little ramekin of the chicken to see if it was just the beef that was wrong. Nope- not a drop of curry, just the same cloying sort of Chinese flavour.
This is the insane thing: The roti shell, the dahlpuri, was fantastic. and owner said it was made by a lady from Guyana. They can be bought individually and we might try that as the alternative is Roti Hut far away from us in the NE. But what's insane is that YOU HAVE A GUYANESE COOK making your dahlpuri, why in the hell have you not had her show you how to make the filling??
Mexican side of menu looked good. Do not go here for roti. $38 incl tip for a resoundingly disappointing lunch.
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