Caribbean Roti Palace

There is nothing special about this place. The roti us mostly a load of roti wrap with very little filling. It’s not a healthy food and not delicious at all.

This is not 5 Star Fine Dining so I am puzzled as to why people are complaining about kindness. This is a storefront West Indy joint that is busy as hell and I have personally been going for 8 years… The lady at the counter with the goldcap is so lovely.
Get yourself a HOT chicken roti with mango juice and take a couple of doubles home. Enjoy best food man 150%!!

Old décor and vintage feel, I like the staff, the food is the reason it’s lasted so long. Terrific roti, rice. Definitely worth trying.
I like the fact they write your order down on your napkin, who does that?

A Trinidadian friend considers the doubles here better than what she grew up on in her youth back in Trinidad. I can picture her now explaining how they evoke her childhood and almost bring tears to her eyes, and insisting that I must go. Now they almost make me mist up too, although I don’t have the same emotional connection she does to this gem of a restaurant. Their doubles, for me, are a culinary touchstone of Toronto (right up there with Mother India’s East Indian-​style roti) and I tell everyone who will listen how much they need them in their life. At $ 1.50 a pop, I can eat about three before I almost pop, although I still want more. They are wet, ungainly, incredibly fragrant pockets of fried bready wrapper with warmly spiced chickpea curry inside. I hope that they remain a Bathurst institution for years to come. The roti is good, too.

I love the roti here, especially the chicken roti, the potato roti and the chickpea roti. It’s full of curry flavours and is very satisfying. You can get it with a nice flavourful spicy sauce. The prices are very reasonable. I would get take out instead of stay in. If I had a Trinidadian mom, I’d expect her to make a tasty, homey roti such as this.

I like this place because it has the best doubles in the city. The roti is okay, I like the goat definitely more than the chicken. Also, the pholourie is to tie for with the Tamarind sauce. Ordering ahead is nice too.

My go-​to place when I’m homesick and need my doubles & banana solo fix!
The doubles and phoulorie are delicious! They make their food very comparable to food back in the Caribbean. They have great beverage selections just like back home in good olé Trinidad.
Ambience isn’t 5 star but it’s exactly what you get when going into roti shops in Trinidad. No complaints from me though, the owner is very pleasant to me and my friends. The food is delicious. The tamarind sauce is my favorite!!! I recommend this place to all my fellow Trinis and friends who want food as authentic as it gets in Toronto.
Trust me, I’ve scouted all over the GTA for good doubles and roti, this place is hands down the most authentic and the best.

Another negative experience for me at The Roti Palace!!! :(

The last time I was in the roti palace was a year and a half ago after finding a long black hair wrapped around a piece of meat in my beef roti. Yuck! I actually went to the bathroom and threw up! As I was chewing on the meat I felt something and pulled a hair out of my mouth which was like a mile long… it was the grossest thing I’ve ever experienced!
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So today I found myself in the area and decided to give the Roti Palace another shot, before the long black hair experience I’ve been coming here for years and really enjoyed there roti. As I ordered my beef and chicken roti to go-​$ 17.65-I did mention the long hair experience to the guy behind the counter he was either the owner or a relative-​he didn’t even blink an eye and was to busy playing some kind of number game on a Piece of paper.
He Never Acknowledged what I said to him and never apologized. He just looked at me stone-​faced. Wow!!! If he would have apologized to me I would never have written this negative review because I didn’t write a negative review last year when i found the long nasty hair… because like I said I really enjoyed this place
but I won’t be back and I won’t recommend this place to friends or family he really needs to work on his Customer service.
And God for bid if I find another hair in my Roti… I will just die!!!

One of the better Trini curries I’ve tried in Toronto. The curry had a nicely spiced gravy and the food was piping hot. But the staff there look almost miserable at times and so eating there was not the happiest of occasions!

I’ve eaten here about 15 times over the past 3 years and I like it better than Pam’s Rotis and One Love Vegetarian, but I haven’t tried any other places. Nothing really wrong about the place, it’s definitely the best roti in the area. I always get a spicy chickpea roti with random additional veggies (spinach/​squash). Not really sure what to expect from the doubles, had them twice and they seemed good. If you get a chickpea roti there’s no point, and they can be super messy. The place is nothing to look at but they have a lot of seating and lots of unusual imported drinks in the fridge, but I stick to take-​out. You can call ahead and do that to streamline the process, but it’s really not necessary.

The roti was amazing but I had a really difficult time cutting it with plastic cutlery while dining inside. I have problems with my left hand so plastic cutlery is really difficult for me to use. I asked politely for proper silverware/​aluminium ware but was rudely told to use the plastic and that they did not have anything else. So the food is good but the attitude and the service is nothing to write home about. I will only do take out here — but probably will go to a place that has respect for customers as this place does not.

I’ve been coming here for over 10 years and it’s the best trini roti in the city, wide variety of drinks, amazing doubles, vegetarian and meat curry are both excellent.
Ask for squash in your roti and they don’t charge you anything extra.
The roti is always fresh, and the prices are great.
You don’t go here for ambiance (unless you dig the retro 80’s feel and uneven tables) and their customer service can have it’s weak days, but the food is prepared lightning fast, and it is always delicious.

I really do like the curry goat roti here. In fact that’s all I’ve purchased and I’ve been back a number of times. They’ve been in business a long time and I do sometimes wonder why they don’t renovate the place to make it look a bit better because I think this IS the original décor. They MUST have the funds for it after being in business so long. That’s my only ‘complaint’. The curry goat roti is great.

3.5 stars to be accurate. The chicken roti is pretty good. The goat roti is even better, especially with the hot sauce. The décor and ambiance in the place are poor at best so I always take out. The service leaves ALOT to be desired, although it comes fairly quick and it’s not too expensive, so for what it is I would say try it and see what you think.

The food was good, I have never had Roti before, though the establishment itself, and the atmosphere, etc. is not what you would call High-​End. Feels like it’s meant to be really quick, maybe just take out. There are chairs and tables, but not the kind you’d take a date if you were trying to impress them.
Great for friends wanting to try something new though!

Love this place. Rotis and curries are delicious. One of my two fav carribean spots in the city. If you’re interested the other is Cool Runnings located at Main and Gerrard.

One does not go to Caribbean Roti Palace for service or ambiance. Despite these two very lackluster areas, it still gets four stars due to the tasty roti.
I have had a consistently positive experience with the food. I always have a 2 veg roti or shrimp roti — never been disappointed.
This place is a dive and the service is cold at best, but it is one of my favourite places to get a roti-​fix!

When you need something authentic and spicy, go here during the day.
Doubles, rotis, tings, you can’t go wrong. This place literally fed me for 2 years and always did it with a smile. Feels like home going in there even though i’m not Caribbean.

The chicken roti tastes good.
But the portion size is tiny, and there is a high ratio of roti to chicken.
Again, it’s a good Roti, but I’d have to order two to even consider being full at lunch.

I finally checked out this place tonight. To be honest I was a little disappointed, from the other reviews here I was expecting better.
My friend and I shared a boneless chicken roti and we also shared a plate of 1 of each of the veggie side dishes (squash, eggplant and spinach)
Everything we had was BLAND. The roti wasn’t very flavourful. It was wrapped very nicely and had great texture, didn’t fall apart easily. But the chicken inside just didn’t have much flavour.
The veggie side dishes were all «meh» too.
It was cheap ($ 13 for the whole lot) and I have only had roti from a few other places, but this was pretty mediocre food in my opinion.
Service was decent, lady taking our order was friendly enough and the food came out really fast… like…30 seconds? When I’ve had roti at other places it was made fresh, this must have been ready to go because it was served to us pretty much immediately after we ordered and wasn’t very hot.