Nobody just wakes up and says, “I’m gonna make roti today.” Not for the first time, anyway, and not without preparation. So says Dawn Lewis, who over the last four years earned the title of “the Roti Lady” among Trinidadian expats exiting frenetic soca fetes at the South Loop club Bassline, who grew dependent on […]
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The return of the roti at Cafe Trinidad
In 2016, Darryl Hicks shuttered the city’s first and only Trinidadian restaurant, Cafe Trinidad. It was a serious responsibility to stand as the sole representative of a Caribbean cuisine that synthesizes centuries of contributions from African, Indian, Indigenous, Creole, Syrian, Lebanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese cooks. And it wasn’t an easy decision to close. But […]
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Taste of Trinidad doubles the city’s options for ‘doubles’
A new Rogers Park Trini restaurant makes two in the city
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12 O’Clock Track: American Primitive refined by Cian Nugent on “Grass Above My Head”
An elegant, rambling slice of Americana from the Irish guitarist