Best Roti in Toronto

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Yesterday, I did go to a Jamaican vegetarian restaurant across from Bathurst Station called One Love. Was the top rated Caribbean joint in Now Magazine a few months back. I had a veggie dhal puri roti and it was really good. They have lot's of other veggie and vegan foods there and it's a nice place.

There's some good places listed on here, lot's of new places for me to try. Best thread on GTAM ever!
 
Went to roti palace, soooo good! Well worth trying out :)
 
strictlye said:
I would never buy a roti from a "Jamaican" shop since Jamaicans don't typically make roti. I rather authentic food.

My Guyanese friend has a shop at Jane st and Trethewey (S.S. Curry), she makes and sell fresh roti's there. Thats the only place I buy mine from.

I buy my roti's from indians and jerk chicken from my jamaicans.
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I get the idea of authentic, but that makes as much sense as needing to buy gnochi from a northern Italian and crab cakes only in Maryland. If somebody knows how to cook I'm down with whatever is coming out of the kitchen.
 
crankcall said:
leave Toronto, come to Cori's on Speers rd in Oakville.
Made like your Grandma would have made them, if your granny was from the Carribean.
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Awesome roti!

In Mississauga there is a place just north of the qew on Erin mills parkway called Calabash, also awesome
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I friend of mine bought the Butter Chicken Rotti from Gandhi at 554 Queen West. Good god..i thought I died and went to heaven.
 
If you ever make it up to Newmarket, Tweety's on Leslie north of Mulock is king. We eat there almost every week. You won't be sorry!
 
crankcall said:
I get the idea of authentic, but that makes as much sense as needing to buy gnochi from a northern Italian and crab cakes only in Maryland. If somebody knows how to cook I'm down with whatever is coming out of the kitchen.
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Well, its more of the fact that different cultures prepare food differently. Jamaican curry chicken is very different than Trinidadian Curry, which is very different than chicken curry from an Indian culture.

I've seen some cultures say they are making "jerk chicken" simply because they buy the jerk marinade from no frills. It doesn't taste the way it should though and unless you know what its suppose to taste like...you may or may not like it.
Since Jamaicans do not typically make roti, I'm not sure how they learned to make it or what cultures style they're using.

I remember one of my ex's mom thought you make curry chicken by taking chicken and putting in the frying pan then shaken curry seasoning on it in the pot.:sad3: puke
 
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strictlye said:
Well, its more of the fact that different cultures prepare food differently. Jamaican curry chicken is very different than Trinidadian Curry, which is very different than chicken curry from an Indian culture.

I've seen some cultures say they are making "jerk chicken" simply because they buy the jerk marinade from no frills. It doesn't taste the way it should though and unless you know what its suppose to taste like...you may or may not like it.
Since Jamaicans do not typically make roti, I'm not sure how they learned to make it or what cultures style they're using.

I remember one of my ex's mom thought you make curry chicken by taking chicken and putting in the frying pan then shaken curry seasoning on it in the pot.:sad3: puke
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The jamician places don't make the roti, they buy it from some mass produced place and then wrap their curry/jerk items in in. That's the difference.

To get proper roti you go to a trini or guyanese place where aunty in the back balaying the roti fresh in the morning like she used to do fo she husband before he go wok in the cane fields.
 
Wouldn't Jamaicans learn about Roti in the same way they learned about curry? From the Labourers who came to Jamaica from the East Indies - India?
 
checked out Tweedy's in Newmarket recently. A good place, but definitely more "Jamaican style" vs. Indian style (at Ghandi Indian Cuisine). The roti at Ghandi is larger too.

Still tasty.
 
rutakin said:
To get proper roti you go to a trini or guyanese place where aunty in the back balaying the roti fresh in the morning like she used to do fo she husband before he go wok in the cane fields.
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That is Mona's. Trini and home made.

Again, Sheppard north side east of McCowan
 
rutakin said:
The jamician places don't make the roti, they buy it from some mass produced place and then wrap their curry/jerk items in in. That's the difference.

To get proper roti you go to a trini or guyanese place where aunty in the back balaying the roti fresh in the morning like she used to do fo she husband before he go wok in the cane fields.
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Yup, thats why I like when they make it fresh.
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