Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint 1567 Grafton Street Baking was always a side hustle for Christine Allen, a hobby she’d been working at since she was a six-year-old in Jamaica, burning things in her mother’s kitchen. Heavily influenced by the women in her life and their handed-down recipes, Allen’s first foray into selling her food—long before […]
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Have you tried the Jamaican food truck yet?
He’s a plumber by trade, but Ludlow Lee has major skills in the kitchen. “It’s in his blood,” says Michelle Lee of her husband/business partner’s Jamaican home-cooking. “Most of his recipes are from his mother.” Ludlow moved from Jamaica to Canada back in 2010 and married Michelle soon after, but it was just over a […]
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A Caribbean Twist of fate
Back in May Caribbean Twist (3081 Gottingen Street) posted a ‘Closed for Renovations’ sign in its window. With the promise of re-opening within a week-and-a-half lovers of its Jamaican flavours didn’t make much fuss. The renos—which were being done by Caribbean Twists’ landlord—were a belated follow-up to some zoning issues you may recall, which made […]