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Francesca Mingione
Citizen
Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 5:37 pm: |     |
There's a REALLY GOOD place to eat in South Ornage on First St. called Caribean Cuisine. It's a rather new place and my husband and I love it so much that we want to help get the word out so that it does well and stays open! The food is really delicious and fresh, the prices can't be beat, and the owners are friendly.
My husband and I are NYC transplants that just recently moved to Maplewood, and we are happily suprised to have found better Caribean food than we had in our West Village neighborhood. Please try out this place and help keep it afloat. They're a bit out of the way but well woth the trip! |
lnaz
Citizen
Username: Lnaz
Post Number: 39
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 11:06 pm: | |
By caribean food do you mean Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican? Ive been dying for that kinda food but its hard to find in NJ. |
Ms. G
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 744
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 8:43 am: | |
Trinidad food. Doubles, sea moss, mmmmmm |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 248
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 8:45 am: | |
Husband has fear of things unfamiliar.. friends do not...do you know if they're open for lunch? |
JGTierney
Citizen
Username: Jtg7448
Post Number: 112
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 9:21 am: | |
We got take out there again last night.
It is REALLY good - huge portions, and inexpensive.
We've missed the readily available ethnic food of the city - and this place helps to fulfill it.
The employees are very nice as well. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 704
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 10:42 am: | |
I'm glad that people are finding this place. My daughter went in there last spring because she was trying to sell ads for an ad journal--I think they were newly opened at the time and no one was there. My daughter felt bad that she wasn't a customer. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1529
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 10:51 am: | |
so, what's good? |
JGTierney
Citizen
Username: Jtg7448
Post Number: 114
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 12:19 pm: | |
Last night I had the curry beef with rice and
peas - oh and plaintains - YUM.
We've also tried the curries with the Roti. You can either get it wrapped up in the Roti (like a burrito of sorts) or with the Roti on the side.
This is where the help was well, helpful. You can go in a just taste a little to see if you like something. They even got us to try the goat!
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growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 289
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 2:56 pm: | |
We had them cater our daughters birthday party last year after me and the wife were walking by and noticed that it was open. I love their veggie dish with squash, spinach and potatoes with rice. The beef patties are great too! |
drewdix
Citizen
Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 430
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 - 3:09 pm: | |
Yes
another thumbs up for these folks.
Very good food (we like the curries) and inexpensive.
Go there now. |
sullymw
Citizen
Username: Sullymw
Post Number: 215
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 9:22 am: | |
What is roti? |
drewdix
Citizen
Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 431
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 9:26 am: | |
it's a special island bread- akin to , but not really like, a tortilla |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 344
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 11:13 am: | |
On the advice of this board Hubby & I tried Carribbean Cuisine for the first time last night, and boy are we glad we did -- what a find!
We're both Carribbean food novices and so were a little afraid we wouldn't know what to order, but the staff there was sooo helpful, very nice and approachable, patiently answering all our questions and even letting us sample unfamiliar items before we ordered. Portions were huge, prices were very reasonable, and the food was fresh and delicious. The place was also impeccably clean, which was a real plus.
We'll DEFINITELY be adding this one to our list of favorite local restaurants!
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Ms. G
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 745
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 12:25 pm: | |
The oxtail is phenomenal, my husband reports. I very much like the doubles (an appetizer -- flaky pastry surrounding a mix of potatoes and spices, kind of like aloo paratha), the coconut roll dessert (yum), the rice and peas, and the roti. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 345
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 12:33 pm: | |
Forgot to mention what we ordered:
- vegetable patties (mixed vegetables in a pastry crust)
- chicken roti (tender boneless pieces of chicken in curry sauce, with potatoes and chickpeas, wrapped in a roti)
-- shrimp curry, with white rice and red beans and a piece of a sort of cheese-macaroni-loaf they call macaroni pie
Altogether it was enough to feed two people with large appetites for two nights, and the cost was just about $20 including drinks. |
Marc
Citizen
Username: Bautisma
Post Number: 63
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 9, 2004 - 12:36 pm: | |
I had goat for the first time there. The food is very good and the portions are huge |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 113
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 1:53 am: | |
Are they vegetarian friendly? I love goats.. don't usually eat em though. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 859
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 8:43 am: | |
Yes, vegetarian friendly. I called while reading the menu online and told the woman we were vegetarian and she walked me through different options. The vegetable patties were good, as was the totally vegetarian callaloo soup. Callaloo (greens) and vegetables pureed with coconut milk, good with a nice kick! We also got aloo pies, shrimp curry w/ rice and peas (which are actually lentils), vegetable roti. The shrimp curry was much more well prepared than we've gotten elsewhere. We spent $30, but got dinner, lunch the next day and I still have enough for 2 lunches! |
kevin
Citizen
Username: Kevin
Post Number: 158
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 9:21 am: | |
Amandacat mentioned earlier: "chicken roti (tender boneless pieces of chicken in curry sauce, with potatoes and chickpeas, wrapped in a roti)"
I have been to this place twice now - once when they originally opened and on Friday. I tried the chicken roti both times, which came wrapped up like a burrito. I did not like this dish because the chicken pieces inside of it were not tender and boneless, but solid bones with very little meat.
Minus the bones, the flavor was good, but maybe I don't understand how Carribbean food is supposed to be served and eaten. If something comes wrapped up like a burrito, That's how I expect to eat it. I don't want to have to unwrap the roti and pick through everything.
I also had doubles, veggie patties and callaloo which were great.
On Saturday I had take-out from Heart and Soul for the first time, which is right around the corner from Carribbean Cuisine. Excellent food - but only open on Fri, Sat, Sun. Their chicken comes on the bone, but I expect it that way since it isn't wrapped up in bread.
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flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 121
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:05 pm: | |
shh, I don't understand. Shrimp is not vegetarian... Fish and crustations and all that are not vegetables that grow in the sea.
Did the soup have chicken or beef (or pork, or fish, or anything)stock? |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 860
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 2:54 pm: | |
Well, I'm a fish eating vegetarian, but the soup was totally vegetarian, no fish or seafood, really vegetarian. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 346
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 5:15 pm: | |
Kevin, they have both boneless and bone-in chicken rotis on the menu; I would have thought if you ordered your roti as a sandwich they would have automatically given you the bone-free variety but maybe you just have to be specific when you order. It really was delicious, you might want to give them another try! |
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