Trini To D Bone — Restaurant in Saanich

I had enough friends who had thoroughly enjoyed this place bugging me to try it. To be fair, I knew of this place for a very long time being a former Spectrum student and always seeing this place going by. Kinda my fault for always driving by in a hurry and never actually stopping by to check them out.

My bus driver buddy who drives the 22 route urged me to go everytime whenever the both of us go by the place. So I decided to slow from my hectic schedule and dine in.

Um, this is one of those places where you want to implant your caboose into the seat and never leave. I could just sit for hours listening to Sean Paul and Daddy Yankee tracks inside this place and order half a dozen bottles of Ting eating roti. I ordered roast beef, chicken, and pulled pork roti. I had the first 2 on-site and the latter for take out because I had to stop procrastinating and leave in order to go back and continue packing and cleaning before my move out.

The roast beef is hands down my favorite. The chicken I was told was usually the customer favorite; don't get me wrong, it is delicious indeed but I still enjoyed the succulent roast beef more. I drove out of the place when the food comatose hit me hard and I needed to make an emergency landing 🛬... I mean pit stop 🚏 at my parent's place. I gifted away my pull pork roti to my brother and I hit a deep siesta in my mom's pergola. I was out cold for 3 hours.

I tell you; this was how satiated I was with the comfort food. No other meal I had to date puts me into a restful state post. I needed this, I was going through stressful times and this was healing soul food. Other reviewers are not kidding with accolades; try...

We stopped by on a whim and I'm so glad we did! They have Rotis. That's it. Perfect, delicious Roti. I had the vegetable mildly spiced. The soft, perfectly flavoured roti was generously stuffed with fluffy yet creamy potatoes and a cooked greens spread that contained all the spice and the perfect amount of vinegar. I could eat that stuff with a spoon! My partner got the pulled pork but devoured it with nothing more than, "it's so good". Lol He ran a restaurant long enough that he can be impossible to please. He was thrilled, we'll definitely be back. If I had any criticisms it would be that it's not very clean, but it's not the kind of place where I really care about that. Otherwise it would have been nice to have an interesting drink selection, maybe something traditional to drink or something sweet to eat. I noticed they had a cake to order for the holiday season that I bet is fantastic after tasting their food. Check it out and grab a bite! There's a small parking lot with plenty of space so you can easily stay in or just...

As vegans who did not drop by on a Saturday our first samples from the kitchen came as a vegan suitable / vegetarian roti and the filling for a vegan suitable / vegetarian roti in a take away container because I am gluten intolerant.

My partner thorough enjoyed the roti. Not too messy, not spicy and flavourful. I found the filling was indeed quite flavourful, but I thoroughly enjoyed the spinach. I thought it was the highlight of the lunch.

We have yet to make a Saturday Doubles order, but we plan on it.

Other notes: gluten-free accommodations can be made. Call ahead to request rice for your pick up order (for example)

We found this place quite by accident and realized that we aren't too far away, so we have been calling it the neighbourhood roti shop.

There are a few parking spots out front and inside, while waiting for your order, you can learn the inspirational and interesting story of how the owners opened up 🇹🇹...