The Toronto Food Blog loves scouring all corners of the GTA for the best restaurants, greasy spoons, watering holes, food courts, strip malls, bodegas, markets and food trucks.  And to say that we like things spicy would be putting it mildly!

With this as our north star, it may come as no surprise that February’s review comes from the heart of Burlington.

D Hot Shoppe is serving up some of the best T&T food in all of the 416 & 905!  What a spot!

Our mouths are still on fire from our last visit, and we’re pining to go back to try the rest of the menu.

Simone & Gabriel have recently become our go-to Doubles man.   Both singular and plural, Trinidad’s most famous street food is meant to be eaten with your hands.  Don’t stress the mess.

Bara (fried dough) gets filled with curry chana and then laced with cucumber chutney.  We pile on some suicide hot sauce to keep things interesting… and always order two as it’s eponymously apropos.

Roti is a menu item that always calls our name.  No exceptions!  Especially when that Dhalpuri comes hot off the Tawa loaded with split peas.  We just love how all the crumbs inside mix with the curried gravy.   Papayo!  Now we’re hungry again.

All the rotis at D Hot Shoppe come boneless… and we prefer it that way since we like to eat with our hands.  Served small (enough) or large (just amazing), we opted for chicken on our last visit and weren’t disappointed.  Ram-crammed with protein, this is one serious feed.  We added a suicide level of scotch bonnet, yet again, and relied on a Cola Champagne to cool everything down.

Everything available on the roti menu can also be served on rice.  We prefer white rice with Trini curries so as not to detract from the complicated flavors of the gravy in any way.

The cuttlefish option was an interesting call last time through.  We hadn’t noticed it before and was a solid choice along side some perfectly-starchy potatoes.

And although not pictured, vegetarians can get involved by-way-of pumpkin or mixed vegetables (cauliflower & carrot)!