Tropikàl
Restaurant · Saint-Henri ·
Updated Caribbean & Afro-Latin tapas, entrees & cocktails; nightlife
Updated Caribbean & Afro-Latin tapas, entrees & cocktails; nightlife
"This pan-Caribbean spot is from chef Jae-Anthony Dougan: With a menu that brings together as many Trinidadian street food platters as it does Haitian classics, Dougan’s creativity persists with plates of ‘rasta pasta’, oxtail tacos and shrimp po’ boys. The restaurant doubles as a nightlife spot with its weekend speakeasy Truth in the basement." - JP Karwacki
"Chef Jae-Anthony Dougan was so busy running his first restaurant and catering company that he didn’t make it past week 6 of culinary school. But his television debut this year on Top Chef Canada should help establish that the self-taught chef knows plenty. So does the success of his two new pan-Caribbean restaurants — a pop-up in the Ottawa City Centre complex that sells takeout and freshly ground spice blends, and the far more upscale Tropikàl, on a restaurant-heavy stretch of Montreal’s Notre-Dame West, which Dougan calls “Joe Beef Street.”"
"Called a stupendous standout by a critic, Tropikàl was highlighted as one of the year’s memorable new entries." - Eater Staff
"Occupying the stand until July 27, chef Jae-Anthony Dougan’s Saint-Henri restaurant Tropikàl is offering a menu that includes grilled corn with scotch bonnet pepper butter and a dusting of pecorino romano, shrimp skewers with mango chutney and rice, and a jerk chicken gyro, among other dishes." - Valerie Silva
"Located on Notre-Dame Street West, this Saint-Henri newcomer from Chef Jae-Anthony Dougan presents a pan-Caribbean, island-hopping takeout menu that aims to reframe Caribbean food in Montreal. The menu pairs Trinidadian doubles (fried flat dough filled with curried chickpeas) with Dougan’s pimento-smoked, jerk-spiced chicken served with Haitian-style rice, and features the namesake vegan Tropikàl bowl—containing callaloo (a Jamaican stew of leafy greens), chickpea chana, plantains, and other vegetables—that the menu says “brings different parts of the Caribbean together in one bowl.” Dougan sees the restaurant as proof that Caribbean cuisine belongs on Montreal’s prime restaurant row alongside heavyweights, and he hopes the Saint-Henri location, all-Black ownership with partners Jamaal Gittens and Kevin Selman, and future plans for a lively weekend rum cocktail lounge and an Ottawa sister location will help raise its profile; for now the pandemic has it operating as a takeout and delivery spot." - Valerie Silva
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