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| - 2.5 stars! A trendy Jamaican-Asian fusion restaurant in Dundas West. My friend and I came here for dinner on a Friday evening at 5:30pm. The place slowly got busier and busier as the evening progressed. The atmosphere is casual, dim lighting, and very loud. Quite loud that you have to pretty much yell due to the music. The proximity to other customers is close if you are seated along the wall. Since it gets quite busy, it's a good idea to make reservations. The service overall was good and very attentive to pouring our water without needing to ask.
I want to give this place more stars but the price for what you get just makes me not want to return. We ordered three dishes: Half order of jerk chicken (wing, and thigh I think?), fried cauliflower (since everyone on Yelp was raving about it; ~12 florets), and the dirty rice. The jerk chicken was spicy, but not overwhelming, and the skin was tasty. The meat itself was surprisingly lacking some flavour, considering the skin was salty and tasty, and it definitely needed that scotch bonnet sauce that came with it on the side. The fried cauliflower was quite good--similar to a general tao's chicken but a vegetarian version. Although the dirty rice had good flavours, such as cumin, lap cheong (Chinese sausage), the rice was slightly undercooked.
All in all, I wish I could say I'd go back--but the price is keeping me away for dishes that just aren't that special. $80 (including tax & tip) for two glasses of wine and the above three dishes.
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