Dinner Menu

Wage Fee Notice (please read): A 20% fair wage fee is added to all checks to pay base hourly wages and offer benefits to both our front and back of house staff. This fee is not a tip. Tips are appreciated when given, but are optional. All tips are paid only to servers.

Courtesy Notice: Please be kind to the guests coming after you by adhering to our reservation time limit of 2 hours.

Appetizers

Jerk Wings | GF $16

12-hour marinated & smoked

$16

Doubles | DF, VE $9

Fried bread (bara), topped with cumin-spiced channa & chutneys

Hops | V $6

Four hops (Trinidadian rolls) served with house habanero butter

Geera Pork Belly | DF, GF $13

Cumin-spiced pork belly

$13

Trini Beef Pie | DF $9

Hand pie stuffed with ground beef, served with culantro sauce or tamarind mayo. Note: these are not like Jamaican patties

Trini Eggplant Pie | DF, VE $7

Hand pie stuffed with fire-roasted eggplant, served with house-made pepper sauce

Trini-Chinese Chicken | GF $14

Fried drums glazed in oyster sauce

$14

Shrimp croquettes $13

Minced shrimp and Trini green seasoning folded into a creamy béchamel, then breaded and fried until crispy and golden. Finished with grated parmigiano reggiano

$13

Plates

Oxtail | DF, GF $34

Braised and grilled oxtails, served with coconut rice

$34

Pepperpot | DF, GF $29

Oxtail, cowheel, & beef chuck stew, served with coconut rice, & hops

$29

Snapper Escoveitch | DF, GF MP

Whole fried snapper, pickled chilies, served with coconut rice

Hakka Pork Ribs | DF, GF $21

Hakka-spiced ribs, garlic-culantro sauce & pickled peppers, served with coconut rice *Sub pelau for coconut rice for +$4

$21

PARATHA TIFFIN BOXES

Curried potatoes and channa, served with your choice of protein or vegetables, & paratha (“buss-up-shut”)

Personal Omnivore (Serves 1)
Choose 1 protein Beef $31 | Goat $31 | Chicken $29| Shrimp $32

Personal Herbivore VE (Serves 1)
Tomato or eggplant Choka | $26

Family Omnivore (Serves 2-3)
Choose 1 to 2 proteins

Family Herbivore (Serves 2-3) VE
Tomato and eggplant Chokas | $50

Sides

Coconut Rice | VE, GF, DF $6

Jasmine rice gently cooked in coconut milk and spices

Fried Cabbage | VE, GF, DF $8

Savoy cabbage, pan-fried with pimento peppers, habanero chilies, garlic, ginger, soy sauce

Eggplant Choka | VE, GF, DF $8

Fire-roasted eggplant, garlic, spices

Tomato Choka | VE, GF, DF $8

Fire-roasted tomatoes, garlic, spices

Crispy Kale | VE, GF, DF $8

Fried kale, fried channa, chilies and mango chutney

Fried Plantains | VE, GF, DF $7

Fried sweet plantains, dusted with cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg, clove, chilis

Pelau (Trini Rice & Peas) | GF $10

Trini-style peas and rice, cooked with pumpkin, coconut milk and beef stock. Add beef to make it a main | $16

$10

DESSERTS

Coconut Cream Flan | GF $8

Coconut cream custard, caramel, coconut flakes

Bread Pudding $8

House-made hops bread, dulche de leche, milk, spices

Currant Roll $8

Trini pastry layered with currants/ coconut

Sauces

Pineapple Chow
Mango Chutney
Culantro Sauce
(Chadon Beni)
Tamarind Sauce
House Pepper Sauce
Each | $3
All | $9

Beer

Carib

Trinidadian Lager

$10

Red Stripe

Jamaican lager

Corona

Mexican lager

Atlas

Dance of Days, Pale Ale

DC Brau Corruption

IPA with Columbus hops

Guiness Extra Stout

Dark beer with notes of coffee and cacao

Wine

Red: Gen 5 Ancestral Red

Blend of 5 grape varietals, with notes of blackberry, cherry & black currant

$13

White: Gen 5 Chardonnay

Full-bodied wine with fruity aroma of pears and vanilla

$13

Rose: Brecca Rose

Garnacha grape wine, with floral aroma

$13

Rum Flights

Aged Trinidadian Rums

Angostura 5-year, Angostura 7-year and Angostura 1824,

$29

Aged Guyanese Rums

El Dorado 5-year, 8-year and 15-year aged rums

$29

RUM CHASERS

Limbos

A combo of Red Stripe & a shot of house rum

$12

Rum & Coke

A combo of coke & a shot of house rum

$10

Rum COCKTAILS

Spicy Passion Fruit Margarita

Habanero, triple sec, lime, Arette tequila, passion fruit syrup

$15

Island Life

Mango juice, ginger juice, spiced ginger syrup, El Dorado 5 year aged rum, lime, ginger beer

$15

Rum Punch

Dark rum, lime, Angostura bitters

$13

Temple In The Sea

Elderflower gin, lime, coconut orgeat, Velvet Falernum, mint oil

$13

Purple Passion

White rum, sorrel, lime

$14

Kurma

Ginger cardamom spiced syrup, Scarlet Ibis rum, lime, coconut orgeat

$15

Chadon Beni Gin & Tonic

Culantro syrup, grapefruit bitters, Indian mint-infused gin, lime, tonic

$13

The Hamilton

Hamilton 86 Demerara rum, Ferrand Dry Curacao, pimento dram, lime

$17

NA BEVERAGES

Sodas

Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Diet Sprite

Juices

Sorrel, Limeade

*Allergen Notice: Menu items may contain or come into contact with wheat, milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish and soy