Whitby Roti
I had a meeting with a planner in Whitby the other day. Rode my bike from Vivian's house to Danforth GO station, took the train to Whitby, rode my bike to the office not too far up Brock St S, but since I was early I rode around the area a bit more.
Downtown Whitby is small, unless there's some other downtown in Whitby it is really just about four blocks of shops along Dundas (Highway 2) with Brock St S cutting that in half with it's own three or four blocks of shops running North-South. then there are a couple of little side streets that have a couple of shops. Went into a particularly cluttered pawn shop and didn't see anything of value, for instance.
What really jumped out at my though was a Roti shop location just south of Dundas on Byron (one block west of Brock St S). A roti shop in Whitby? Well there was another one around the corner too, amazing! But they weren't open yet. So I went to coffee time and had a giant apple fritter (I'm sure I've told you about the giant apple fritters at coffee time).
After the meeting (which was very enlightening in many good ways) I rode around for a bit longer, basically to the extents of downtown before it became sprawlville, and came back to the roti shop. I got a boneless chicken roti and a can of coke, and I think it was about $9. It was a compact and heavy bastard, I guess just the way they should be, but I had to catch my train back so I wasn't able to eat it right away. That was probably for the best because when I finally did get to bite into it it was still very hot.
I actually couldn't wait to get on the train to eat it, so I started eating the thing while standing next to my bike on the platform. It was amazing. There were a lot of chick peas and potatos and nice big chunks of chicken. it was very saucy but I managed to keep it from dripping on me without too much trouble. The size was a bit smaller than I'm used to, but that worked out in my favour anyway since I was eating with my hands while standing. Plus it was lunch time so it was the perfect amount of food. Might have still be a little bit too much food, but I ate it all anyway. It really was fantastic, and I think I liked it a lot better than the Roti place on bathurst south of bloor. I'm sure there are better roti places than that in Toronto but sadly that's the only one I have eaten at.
So if you find yourself in Whitby head to Dundas and Brock St S, go one block west, then turn south down Byron, look to the left and go into the roti shop there. yum.
Downtown Whitby is small, unless there's some other downtown in Whitby it is really just about four blocks of shops along Dundas (Highway 2) with Brock St S cutting that in half with it's own three or four blocks of shops running North-South. then there are a couple of little side streets that have a couple of shops. Went into a particularly cluttered pawn shop and didn't see anything of value, for instance.
What really jumped out at my though was a Roti shop location just south of Dundas on Byron (one block west of Brock St S). A roti shop in Whitby? Well there was another one around the corner too, amazing! But they weren't open yet. So I went to coffee time and had a giant apple fritter (I'm sure I've told you about the giant apple fritters at coffee time).
After the meeting (which was very enlightening in many good ways) I rode around for a bit longer, basically to the extents of downtown before it became sprawlville, and came back to the roti shop. I got a boneless chicken roti and a can of coke, and I think it was about $9. It was a compact and heavy bastard, I guess just the way they should be, but I had to catch my train back so I wasn't able to eat it right away. That was probably for the best because when I finally did get to bite into it it was still very hot.
I actually couldn't wait to get on the train to eat it, so I started eating the thing while standing next to my bike on the platform. It was amazing. There were a lot of chick peas and potatos and nice big chunks of chicken. it was very saucy but I managed to keep it from dripping on me without too much trouble. The size was a bit smaller than I'm used to, but that worked out in my favour anyway since I was eating with my hands while standing. Plus it was lunch time so it was the perfect amount of food. Might have still be a little bit too much food, but I ate it all anyway. It really was fantastic, and I think I liked it a lot better than the Roti place on bathurst south of bloor. I'm sure there are better roti places than that in Toronto but sadly that's the only one I have eaten at.
So if you find yourself in Whitby head to Dundas and Brock St S, go one block west, then turn south down Byron, look to the left and go into the roti shop there. yum.