Located in an old strip mall at the Southeast
corner of 51st avenue and Olive in the location
that used to house Restaurant 28 - I miss that
place because they had the best catfish in town.
Not just the catfish but the sauce that went over
it. But this is not about them. It's about the new
restaurant in it's place... So this place isn't much
- it isn't really some place you come for ambience
even though there are a few tables. They call it Food
To Go for a reason. Went there recently and it was hot
outside and they don't seem to worry about air conditioning
because it was rather hot in the dining/waiting area.
But that didn't matter. I was there to sample some
Jamaican food. What I DIDN'T know was that I was about
to discover Belizean food as well. Well, just one item
- the Belizean tamale. So what? Just a tamale. Haven't
you ever had a tamale before? Nope. NOT the same thing.
The Mexican style tamales I'm used to are smaller and
I can probably eat 5 or 6 of them in one sitting. This
thing was like holey moley! It was HUGE! The size of a
burrito at least. Heck this is an entire meal in itself.
The regular maize meal with recado roja - a quite spicy
and tasty paste. Inside of it they put a whole chicken
drumstick. That's the Belizean way. Yup. Good? Heck yeah.
Oh yeah. I also like their curried goat. They sell a huge
dinner plate for about 9 bucks. The potato salad that came
with the plate was delicious. So were the plantains and
rice that came with it. They have a little selection of
Jamaican grocery items at one side of the store that you
can browse while waiting for your meal to be made. Lots of
products by Grace - including the unfortunately named
cock-flavoured soup. Why couldn't they just call it Chicken?
But no matter. I bought a bunch of them for the next White
Elephant at my workplace. Makes a great gag gift (no pun
intended). Definitely will be back. Only gripe about this
place is their hours are more suited for a bank than a
restaurant. You have to make it by 6 in order to get one
of their dinner takeout plates.