Cafe Trinidad

I apologize if someone already posted on this...

I saw Cafe Trinidad mentioned in another thread and also had a friend recommend it the other day. So today I decided to trek down to 75th Street after work for an early dinner and to check out their "authentic Trinidad Caribbean food with a touch of soul".

In addition to the Roti Wraps discussed in the earlier thread, they offer 5 curry options: chicken, crab and dumpling, shrimp, goat, and salmon. A couple different stews, fried chicken, snapper, perch, and few vegetarian options.

I decided to play it safe and ordered the Curry Chicken. 3 pieces of chicken served with rice and peas, a slice or roti, and one side. I ordered the potato and chana.

The food and service were both very good. Adding their pepper sauce helped a bit. My server was very happy to answer my many questions. I found out they have been open since September and recently added Mondays to their regular hours. I was also happy to find that they accept visa and mastercard since I almost never carry cash. A good addition to a stretch of road with many fine options.

Cafe Trinidad
www.cafetrinidad.com
557 E. 75th Street
773-846-8081
Mon-Thur 11-8
Fri-Sat 11-9
Sun 12-7

Marquee wrote: I found out they have been open since September. . .

Some time ago there was a Café Trinidad and Tobago, also at 557 E 75th. Does anyone know if this is the same business, new owners, or something else? In any case, I appreciate this report as well as JeffB’s on Café Trinidad and look forward to trying it soon.

Marquee wrote:I apologize if someone already posted on this...

In addition to the Roti Wraps discussed in the earlier thread, they offer 5 curry options: chicken, crab and dumpling, shrimp, goat, and salmon. A couple different stews, fried chicken, snapper, perch, and few vegetarian options.

I decided to play it safe and ordered the Curry Chicken. 3 pieces of chicken served with rice and peas, a slice or roti, and one side. I ordered the potato and chana.

The food and service were both very good. Adding their pepper sauce helped a bit. My server was very happy to answer my many questions. I found out they have been open since September and recently added Mondays to their regular hours. I was also happy to find that they accept visa and mastercard since I almost never carry cash. A good addition to a stretch of road with many fine options.

Add a "ditto" to the above - made it there on the way to Barbara Ann's a
week ago. Stopped in for only a few minutes (it was about 4 pm) and was
the only one there - too late for lunch-rush, too early for dinner-rush. I
went with the roti-wrap - the jerk-chicken-roti-wrap, figuring itd be
small and I was picking up something from BA anyway. It turned out to
be larger than expected, and pretty good too, a nice flavour to the
whole thing. The nice thing is that its a sit-down place, with some decent
Carribean music playing int he background - a nice change from all the
carryout spots.

And as you say is *is* now open on Mondays - however the big plus IMHO is
that its open on *Sundays*. That was often a bad day to be on the Southside,
with BA's etc all closed - this will now be a great option for Sundays in the
summer IMHO. Its very conveniently on the way to BA's too (between BA's
and the highway if you take 75th down to Cottage Grove) - but really
combining the two means a little too much good food for a single day

c8w

Based on the above we tried Cafe Trinidad on Monday. No complaints. Very friendly service. Jerk chicken roti wrap and goat curry were both quite good. BUT the thing that stood out was the ginger beer. I don't really like ginger beer and am not sure why I ordered it. but this stuff was great. It tasted like ginger and sugar and nothing else -- not like my experience with ginger beer, but rather like my idea of ginger beer, the ginger beer I've always hoped for. They make it there. Worth the trip in itself.