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| - The Watercress and Papaya Salad with jerk chicken (quarter piece) was probably one of the best things I've ever ate in my entire life.
And that is a bold statement.
Their spicy red sauce was so good. I would buy their spicy red sauce and eat that with everything. Everything on that plate was DELICIOUS.
Honestly, the food was amazing. I was super full and the prices weren't too steep either. The jerk chicken was so moist and juicy, and the watercress and papaya salad was PERFECT and SO FRESH. I've never had such a good salad. It was sweet from the papaya, crunchy from the cashews, and it had nice avocado crema thing going on. Watercress is another one of my favorite ingredients, so I thought the combination of everything was just spectacular.
If you live in Toronto, YOU MUST drop by here.
Chubby's Jamaican Kitchen was entertaining, it was bright, and it was loud. But it was also packed.
PACKED.
Honestly, I cannot believe my friends and I waited 2.5 HOURS for a table here.
SERIOUSLY??
Because we are geniuses, we did not make a reservation on a Saturday night. When we got there at 7, the hostess put us on the waitlist. She said it would take about 45 minutes to an hour. We expected this, so we just wandered around the area and came back a little bit after 8. The hostess then told us we would get our table in 4 MINUTES.
4 minutes past, and then suddenly we were standing there for 30 minutes. We approached the hostess again, and she said that it would be another HOUR. I proceeded to ask why/what changed, and she said that the reservations took priority? What does that even mean??? At this point, my friends and I dipped and we tried finding another restaurant around the area, but everywhere was full and had about an hour wait time!! I've never experienced this in my entire life!! We eventually wandered back to Chubby's around 8:45 - 9 and they told us that again, we were next in the waitlist and there would be about 30 more minutes of waiting.
I honestly have no idea and no clue how and why we didn't get seated after the first one hour wait. It seemed that everyone who went into the restaurant got a seat, and my friends and I were just forgotten about! There was also an upstairs!! What the hell? I don't understand. Seriously, I didn't see ANYONE wait longer than 30 minutes. Groups came in and went, so, I have no idea what happened. I am really skeptical that we legitimately had to wait ALMOST THREE HOURS to get a table. I don't think any other group would have been as patient as us.
We eventually did sit down around 9:30 and started eating around 10.
For dessert, my friends and I shared the cream pie, so that was pretty good too.
I just can't believe we waited that long.... and no one there seemed to appreciate us waiting for 2.5 hours to try out their food.. so I'm thinking, does this place REALLY deserve 4 stars???? Do they value their customers at all?
If you guys ever watched the You're Not Yelping South Park episode, I almost really wanted to pull out the "And, uh did I mention I am a food critic for Yelp?" LOL
TLDR; Make reservations or else you will wait a loOOOOOOng time and cannot eat their amazing food. Still wondering if the restaurant completely lacks care for their customers or if we were just really the unlucky ones.
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