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CALGARY: Roti Hut

I love Caribbean roti for lunch. The soft, stretchy unleavened flatbread wrapped around a saucy, spicy filling always hits the spot.

Roti Hut is a modest strip mall joint that’s been in business for a while. One of those restaurants-cum-community gathering places that sells concert tickets and CDs.

I went on a quiet weekend morning. [...]

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 [...]