TING – “From Jamaican Grapefruit”
Everybody who cares to know, already knows that Ting is the best grapefruit soda in the business. I mean… there’s not much business in grapefruit soda – but Ting is the best.
And… it’s made from Jamaican grapefruit. Okay.
I was fortunate enough to find Ting on the menu of a *brand new* local Guyanese restaurant (called Cuisine Caraïbe Delite!) where they also offer a delicious homemade fruit punch, rum punch, and peanut punch (for the non-vegans).
This place is just a short walk from my house!
Yea!
I offer directions and further resto information for the Montrealers:
Alright, listen, I don’t do food reviews anymore – but I’ll say that if you want a “roti place” this one is pretty good. They just opened two weeks ago! Please note that the prices are significantly lower for vegetarians/vegans (for example: you can get roti served w/ chick peas and curried potatoes for only $5.50 – tax included! Other, more carnivorous menu items run $8.50 for the same combo). You can pick up some unique-to-Guyana stylee dishes with special Guyana stylee seasonings. They also have some really good fried plantains! And Caribbean drinks! So, I can’t imagine what you are waiting for? Go see the really nice couple who run Cuisine Caraïbe Delite (best name ever) by going to: 4816 du Parc, just north of Villeneuve, on the west side of the street. No… I doubt I’ll get anything free out of this endorsement.
That’s why I quit writing food reviews in the first place.
Oh well.
For everyone else: Happy Holidays!
i do much love Ting, especially from Patty king in Toronto’s Kensington Market while experiencing other fine arrays of ethnicity. Although it felt more authentic when they had a metal stop that needed an opener to get at that delicious grapefruit flavoured pop, now the screw-top beats some of the fun out of the experience
This resto is so classy that they open the bottle and give you a glass to pour it in. I didn’t even realize that Ting had made the switch to screw tops!
BOYCOTT.
dude, it needs no introductions.
but let me ask you, do you know if they sell it at Jardin du Cari on St-Viateur? Or did they move to Parc? Cause that is also a good cheap plateau roti place and the people are guyanese. also, do you know what the drink selection is like at La Congolaise on Bleury? I have never gone in there.
According to a conversation which was overheard at Caraïbe Delite, Jardin du Cari’s proprietors were advised to go into the food service business by the Delite people just before the Delite people moved to Toronto. So, I guess the Delites moved back and decided to take their own advice, and open a restaurant of their own – in direct competition with their (former?) friends. Jardin du Cari is still on St-Viateur, last I heard. I don’t know if they have Ting or not.
I’ve never been to the Congolaise place – but maybe if you tell me exactly where it is, I will go there tout de suite!