Horrendous experience on 3/13/25 I ordered from uber eats as I have BEFORE, and I don't know who they have working there now or running this place but it is not the quality that is exuded in previous reviews! They have GONE DOWN HILL, no care or quality assurance with the food. I ordered the goat curry and got chicken...and that's not the worse part! I opened the Buss up shut paratha bread and it was a ball of dough... uncooked and absolutely disgusting. Then the fry bread was also raw in the middle. I had to throw everything away. And then they I call their phone number and it's a recorded line...they never answer, nor returned my call. Never again! read more

Cafe Trinidad - Fry bread. Doughy middle - Trinidadian Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

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I am Trinidad and I am visiting Chicago and saw that Café Trinidad offered authentic Trinidad dishes so I was excited to try it. For the doubles: The channa or garbanzo beans were undercooked and the bhara was too stiff. Not sure what this is, but this is not doubles. This version of doubles is the worst I've ever had. For the boneless curry lamb and dhalpuri. The lamb was red- it was undercooked and the curry taste was terrible. The food needed to be cooked more. It's unfortunate because I hate to waste, but the food was so bad. I threw out my entire dinner. I do not recommend. read more

Cafe Trinidad used to have a brick and mortar restaurant on the south side of Chicago. It now has and ordering service in River North. The photo provided is of the chicken curry roti (sorry, not pretty, I had already started eating ) was just as I had remembered. It was flavorful and the pepper sauce was tangy, spicy deliciousness as well. I would highly recommend trying them for amazing Trinidadian food favorites. read more

Cafe Trinidad - Curry Chicken Roti/Dhalpuri Boneless - Trinidadian Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I got delivery--one of my items was wrong but I didn't even care because everything was so good. I had originally made the order because I was craving doubles but ended up getting other things as well. The jerk catfish was unexpectedly SO tasty, and I'm still thinking about the goat curry and rice--normally I'm meh about the rice with pigeon peas, but in this case, they actually made it tasty enough I would have eaten it by itself! Everything has the right amount of spice and seasoning, and was packaged well enough that nothing spilled or leaked, even the doubles! (I think the doubles might be double doubles, as they had extra wrapper, but the filling was delicious!) read more

There is nothing quite like the feeling of disappointment when you travel a long distance with friends to expose them to the joys of Trinidadian food, just to find that the restaurant, is a prep kitchen. Even that would have been fine. But the tablet menu to order doubles was very confusing. There was a button that stated by 3 get 1 free for doubles. With a cost of $12. It turns out that what that meant was 4 doubles for $12. But, I had to spend time clarifying the order, then deleting the request, then resubmitting the request. In general, it would be easier to just have the menu be 1 doubles for 3 dollars or 4 for $12. Those simplified menu options would have been helpful. Sadly, I don't think the prep kitchen had enough curry chana (Garbonzo beans) for 8 doubles. They had enough for maybe two or three, but spread them thinly into 8. The channa to barra ratio was embarrassing. The good thing is the staff and chef helped me to refine my order. It would have been great to have 8 napkins as we ate the doubles in the car. Alas, the food was sub-par. Perhaps it was old or the end of the day. But I'd be remiss to recommend doubles at this place, despite their lovely slightly misleading website, with its images of a restaurant and instagram quality photos of food. read more

I don't even know where to start, other than I knew I wanted Caribbean food catered for lunch at work. I got in touch with Darryl after inquiring online about ordering and he was so helpful and easy to work with. It was a little late but totally worth the wait. We had the jerk chicken, goat curry, chicken curry, macaroni pie, rice and beans, plantains, roti, and curried vegetables. The flavors were so good along with the sauces. We all dug in as we were so hungry that I forgot to take pictures. Everyone in the office loved it as I saw so many people going for additional helpings and we still had leftovers that we planned on having the next day. It must have looked so good that someone actually stole our trays of leftovers in the fridge when we went in the next day. Unbelievable that people will just take food if there isn't a sign on it! I will definitely be ordering from here again. read more

Visited again. Put in an order for 12 Dahlpuri and they were ready on time and delicious! Thank you.

I'm from Guyana and I ordered boneless chicken curry rolled up in a dhall puri. What I got was a lot of channa (garbanzos) in there with some chicken. In Guyana we don't use the term "doubles" and we never put channa rolled up in dhall puri, that I can recall. . The food tasted ok but was nothing special. I make my own dhall puri now. read more

We had Roti curry beef that was amazing. I would definitely be back. Owners are welcoming and friendly.

OMG ,I would have taken picture of my food if I would have known this place didn't have reviews. They used to have a restaurant near Wintrust arena and now they have one of those kitchens....ghost kitchens I think. But the food here NEVER misses. These are the ONLY non African Americans that I will trust to make my Mac and cheese m the macaroni pie stated very much like southern black-a roni and cheese , pretty close to how Auntie Jean nem do! The first time I ate here ,I got doubles , macaroni pie and rice and peas and salad. The salad was spicy and I was mad because who makes spicy salad, but I forgave them because I didn't want to eat a damn salad anyway. I already told y'all about the macaroni pie-Bussin! The doubles were soooo good,sometimes I'm vegan , and I was like "this is a good addition to my vegan food roster. The rice and peas were good and everything was SO AFFORDABLE so I was able to try many things. NOW Let me tell you what knocked me out ....I mean put my ass down for a nap after I ate it ....it was this Amazing catfish sandwich called catfish and ...damn I forgot the name but it was a version...oh I remember catfish and bake which was a version of shark and bake which they have but I was to scary to try shark,but I will next time because this was amazing. Ooooh that catfish was seasoned DOWN and they have this bread and this garlic cilantro sauce ,cucumbers , pineapple,onion,lettuce,tomato, tamarind sauce on the side and you can pile your condiments on. ....and that was top 4 best sandwiches I ever ate... I can still taste it! Then I didnt have too much room for this thing called buss up shut ...which is roti that's torn up...busted up basically and I ate it with callaloo which is like a spinach and they prepared it with okra ..and my God...my brother HATES okra and he had no idea it was in there and loved it. It ....dang it was good!...if I can come back I'll show a pic of my leftovers ,lol but that might not help the business cuz it looks ran through real bad. But trust me ...this food was ALL good....except the salad ...unless you like spicy salad...then you might like that too! read more

I ordered some doubles and plantain. Simple food, but so so good: soft flatbread, some savory channa, delicious chutneys. I am excited to try more: their roti, the fry bake, other Caribbean delights. read more

I'm legit sad. The shark and bake is different, the palourie didn't come with tamarind sauce. Even the bussup texture changed. Who are y'all catering to!? What is with this weird side salad nonsense with pineapple for the shark and bake!? I'm a bajan from east Flatbush Brooklyn and I've been recommending y'all for a while when the food was right. I don't know what the aunties changed but this ain't it. No thank you. read more

Incredible, absolutely incredible food! My partner wanted to do a surprise dinner and ordered for me. We got chicken curry rotis, doubles, a potato hand pie, rice & beans and plantains. It's rare when a restaurant does everything right but cafe Trinidad does. Can't wait till our next order out night to try more. They just shot to the top of favorite night in restaurants. read more

It's hard to find West Indian food but this place makes delicious food!! Reasonably priced and located close to downtown.

I really enjoyed my Roti. I also had some doubles which tasted excellent. This was definitely a reminder of growing up in the Caribbean with all the healthy foods. I would recommend this restaurant based on my experience. read more