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CALGARY: Lloyd's Jamaican patties (Short Pants Plaza, part 2)

Continuing our tour of Short Pants Plaza, let’s visit Lloyd’s Patty Plus.

Lloyd’s makes Jamaican patties, a delicious portable pastry stuffed with meat, mainly for wholesale to restaurants and stores.

But don’t let that stop you. They will sell retail at the counter, where you can order patties hot and fresh out of the oven. One [...]

TORONTO: The more things change

UPDATE – January 2010: The owners of Irie Food Joint have closed the Jamaican restaurant and opened Harlem Underground in the same location. The new eatery focuses on Southern food as well as live events.

Sometimes I think I’m an 80-year-old woman at heart. I like to drink hot water and carry old Kleenex [...]

TORONTO: Positively Irie

UPDATE – January 2010: The owners of Irie Food Joint have closed the Jamaican restaurant and opened Harlem Underground in the same location. The new eatery focuses on Southern food as well as live events.

Irie comes from Jamaican Creole and roughly means “feelin’ great.” One of the first things you see when you walk [...]