Ali's Roti — Restaurant in New York

I respect the Ali’s name in Trinidadian East Indian cuisine. It’s a joy to see the longevity and success of Caribbean-American owned business. I have patronized their business close to a decade. Ali’s is due respect for sharing Caribbean cuisines to the American audience.

Food and service wise: I’m so over the long waits, under-staffing, and underwhelming food.

Improve your doubles. Every time I succumb to the convenience of proximity, it’s a worse experience.

1. Have at least 4 people behind the counter, especially during busy days and times, especially when you have Uber orders. Having one person doing all that work is criminal.

2. Stop using the same channa for roti for the doubles.

3. Work on your barra, it should never be hard. Your barra and channa fighting for who could be the hardest! Ah tiyaad!!!!! Read my reviews — these teeth are new!

4. Never again put mustard in macaroni pie! This experience was a few years ago and I’ve never asked for it again. But lest allyuh still doing this, STOP IT!

5. I would consistently give your rotis 6.5/10. The roti skins are often large and take the sauces well, are wrapped tight and survive travel. But it can be improved.

6. My friends tend to like your bake and saltfish and bake & corned beef. I mean, how can you really mess up bake and corned beef?

Please actively work on improving your food quality. I would hate to think that I always get food on your “worse days.” I hope my review lands effectively with the owners and propel them into action. However, they might just read this and STEUPES.

For the increased prices for doubles we really should be getting good quality food!

For anyone in need of doubles, I would highly suggest A&As on Fulton in BK or...

I had a music video shoot call time of 6:00. Got there, but decided to wait until 7:45 since it is a night shoot. I asked for a good place to get some food. I was directed to Ali's

First thing I do is look at the cleanliness of a business. As soon as I walk into a place, I check out how clean it is and I always look at where the food is at. The food was well presented and it wasn't sloppy and food all over the place. Everything look neat and clean. I also make a quick rundown of the workers. I look at their outfits. Are They wearing gloves and so on.

The food was well presented and the staff answered questions. She even when it's far to ask if that what I chose looked good. It did. .

The person in front of me ordered rice and chicken with macaroni pie on the side. When he got to the counter, the man didn't realize the macaroni pie was part of his order. He told him don't worry about it just put it in the bag. I thought that was super cool.

I paid for my order and asked if he had any non-carbonated drinks because everything in the cooler look like soda. He gave me a drink for free from behind the counter. There's a fountain there. Again super cool. Especially as a first time patron, this is a wonderful memory

I ordered pasta with curry chicken on top. It was good. Not very spicy and not very salty. A lot of times these places drown their food with salt. It tasted good and I left none. I got roti skin with it, because how can you eat this without roti skin of course. The roti skin was warm and soft all the way through. Every bite was a delight.

I almost definitely hit this place up again when I'm in a neighborhood. It is...

Today I traveled from Staten Island to get roti for my dad who has been eating Ali chunks vegan roti from here for over 20 years. He works late hours and I wanted to surprise him. I placed my order for two chunks roti with 'Slight pepper' with a woman who seemed more preoccupied with talking on the phone than paying attention to what she was doing. Although she repeated my order to me and started to prepare it I would find out at 9:30pm this evening from my dad at work that the one he began to eat for dinner was full of pepper! So I immediately picked up the phone and started calling the restaurant to try and speak to someone since it doesn't close till 10pm and of course no one answered the phone. So I'm airing out the utter unprofessionalism here.As a long time customer and black woman I'm so tired of patronizing black businesses that lack proper etiquette and professionalism when serving people especially when it's FOOD which could be a matter of someone's health or the ability for them to not even be able to eat the food. One thing I've noticed at this particular place is since 2016 labor day parade their roti across the board weather it be goat, chicken, or veggie chunks, keeps getting smaller and smaller but the prices are getting bigger and bigger! I don't even know how much the food cost individually because I had two chunks roti and one boneless chicken roti and it came to $41.38 and I didn't care because I thought it was worth it for my dad. My son said his boneless chicken roti was more skin than roti. They are one of the few spots that make chunks for roti. But the service and serving size not worth it!...