Any Trinidadian restaurants in San Antonio metro? (Austin, Alamo: crime rates, home)

[JBAinTexas]

I spent some time in Trinidad and Tobago and I have a Trini girlfriend who will be my wife. We are looking for a place that sells rotis, doubles, and all kinds of Trini food. We are willing to drive as far as Austin metro.

[smuboy86]

Is Jamaican food at all similar?

[unintentionallyfunny]

Does this help?

[SA Highlander]

The closest thing to this that I can think of is the restaurant Azuca, located on S. Alamo in Southtown. They are a cuban restaurant, very good. Not sure if they would have exactly what you are looking for.

[Volkmeister]

There a place called little Jamaica on Walzem road. They sell Curry Goat with Dahlpuri roti (the roti is from Trinidad). That's about as close as you can get around here, without knowing anyone who cooks it all at home of course.

We've been mulling the idea of starting a weekend Trinidadian food truck. Doubles, roti, peppersauce curry and dumplings, all the good stuff. I'll keep you posted.

[Kin Atoms]

Wow, I was married to a Trini, I am still close to her larger family, and they would be incredibly offended to hearing that they could be compared to or their culture could be exchanged for another Caribbean culture. It's like comparing Spanish and Portuguese or Brazilians and Venezuelans. It's also like taking the North American thing - are we in America really like Canadians?

From what I've seen, the most comparable may come from the Indian culture, with their inclusion of heat in their foods and rotis, but this is clearly dependent on what you favor from the table. I am uncertain if this metro area is large enough to support a Trini restaurant. Perhaps Caribbean with some dishes from the diverse islands, but not an exclusive one. I can be proven wrong. At the same time, while visiting the island, some of the best food came from people literally serving meals from the back of their vehicles. In our culture, this would be a food truck. I am certain this idea can be serviceable, as cooking food (not how you cook it) can be easily transferred. This may have a better opportunity to determine a following, and there are places where food trucks congregate, to offer this taste and opportunity - this could even be in a venue similar to:

Boardwalk on Bulverde | San Antonio's First Mobile Food Truck Park

Best of luck in finding/creating/fulfilling your tastes.

[huckster]

No, absolutely not.
However Canadians are like Americans,yes. Their trade partner to the south is far economically superior
and so wields a huge influence and so, culturally they are melding into America "Light". Yes gradually , culturally, they become more and more similar all of the time to the U.S.
Canadians watch American Cable t.v. All the same programming. Canadians cross the border to shop in the states, everything ,groceries, gasoline,liquor, most everything is cheaper, and especially around Christmas Canadians flood across to the border cities shopping.

Many, many commute to work here daily in the states, wages are a good deal higher here for nurses etc.
making it well worth the commute if they live in a border city. I even dated a Canadian girl or two from the States side through internet dating websites.

- I had a Canadian business owner answer a question I put to him once-, he owned the corner bar in a Detroit suburb, commuted across the border daily, and as we were having a beer one night I asked him
a question about Canada- after I got to know him very well.....of course. He made more money here as a business owner than he could make in Canada. For one the exchange rate was much higher back then.
This guy was completely indistinguishabe from an American

So, I asked, "Is the U.S. really that different from Canada?" I said "I mean I go over there all of the time and I just don't see that much difference between here and Canada."
"NO and yes." "Sure it looks almost the same."
" Americans get the best and the worst of everything", was his reply.
Everything new seems to originate here, entertainment, economically, culturally, technologically, political events, but the worse things originate here too.
Higher Crime rates, far worse pollution, wars, etc.

Originally Posted by Kin Atoms

Wow, I was married to a Trini, I am still close to her larger family, and they would be incredibly offended to hearing that they could be compared to or their culture could be exchanged for another Caribbean culture. It's like comparing Spanish and Portuguese or Brazilians and Venezuelans. It's also like taking the North American thing - are we in America really like Canadians?

From what I've seen, the most comparable may come from the Indian culture, with their inclusion of heat in their foods and rotis, but this is clearly dependent on what you favor from the table. I am uncertain if this metro area is large enough to support a Trini restaurant. Perhaps Caribbean with some dishes from the diverse islands, but not an exclusive one. I can be proven wrong. At the same time, while visiting the island, some of the best food came from people literally serving meals from the back of their vehicles. In our culture, this would be a food truck. I am certain this idea can be serviceable, as cooking food (not how you cook it) can be easily transferred. This may have a better opportunity to determine a following, and there are places where food trucks congregate, to offer this taste and opportunity - this could even be in a venue similar to:

Boardwalk on Bulverde | San Antonio's First Mobile Food Truck Park

Best of luck in finding/creating/fulfilling your tastes.

[yumyumsauce]

Yes, someone needs to start making doubles and serving Lions in SA!