Food – Toys – Tech

As the first in an ongoing challenge to truly find Toronto’s best roti, I started with Mona’s Roti Shop. In the Trinidadian community, roti and doubles are by far the two most popular take-out options. In fact, if you ask any non West Indian about Trinidad, they’ll probably tell some great story about roti and curry at some Trinidadian family …

In the newest and latest version of the Roti Ranking Scale … I’ve applied it to two restaurants that D and I ate at this weekend. Danforth Roti Shop and ACR Doubles and Roti in Toronto. The first calibration of the scale was done based on factors described in the scale. BTW for those who think I have waaayyy too much time …

I am by no means, a mathematical whiz or statistician but I figured in starting to review Roti and Doubles, one should have an objective way of measuring apples to apples. No two rotis are ever the same, even from the same vendor, since the “Roti Taste Ranking” (RTR) or Roti Ranking depends on a number of factors. For instance, …

As the new ” official Roti reviewer ” for blogTO, I have to apply some scientific Trinidadian principles to finding the best roti in the GTA. For instance, in this article about the best Roti in Toronto, there is claim that “Roti” can be from Barbados, Jamaica and India, which is completely false. When one thinks about a roti, one …

My idea of a fun time these days is not battling crowds at some god forsaken club or ridiculous trendy bar, so D and I walked from my place and went eastbound past Greenwood station where we walked a couple of minutes along the Danforth until we found Sarah’s Cafe, a well known beer destination. Opened 11 years ago on …

Stopped into Prohibition/Booze Emporium last night for a quick drink after having “dinner” at the Real Jerk on Queen St. One rant : If I have to recommend Jamaican food in Toronto, I would take a rocket launcher and aim it dead square at The Real Jerk, blow it up and then shit on the burning embers of that place. …

Being a traveling consultant means that one has access to myriad of travel and lodging options that most people with 9 to 5 jobs will never have Hotel lodging paid for by clients Per-diems that pay for your meals and incidentals Flex-travel options that allow one to fly off to another city instead of flying home as a benefit and …

As a budding travel writer/photographer, I get comments from readers such as ” I love your pictures”, “That picture was amazing” and so on. Once in a while, I will get an e-mail from someone saying something like this, “What a great picture, but if you fixed it in Photoshop, it would be so much better”. Comments like this totally …

When planning any last minute trip there are a couple things to keep in mind The first rule of any last-minute trip is to have no expectations about where you want to do. Specific locations add mandatory requirements to your planning. As long as something is mandatory and inflexible, one has to pay for that inflexibility. This is firm rule with popular tourist destinations like …

When “Summerlicious” and “Winterlicious” started many years ago, I thought this was a great idea. There are many good aspects of the festival including: It made ridiculously high priced restaurants affordable and accessible to the masses. January is typically a slow month for the industry and the restaurants offer their fixe-prix menus during a slow time to lure new and old diners through …