Debe Kitchen — Restaurant in New York

The most disgusting place to be, order from or eat at! The Debe East Indians from Trinidad and Tobago should be ashamed, to show there faces or advertise their poor representation of true Caribbean flavours, aromas, food and delicacies. Real Trinibagonians don't do NASTY! The paratha roti I got was a quarter serving and salty and the dhalphuri roti had no peas filling, tasteless, drenched with the aroma of recooked oil and if you reheat within 1 minute the roti auto-converted into a weapon - Advisory: Do Not Eat after Re-heat! Debe kitchen take zero pride to upkeep their establishment, no ventilation and the food display was a tragedy to look at, seating area tiny and greasy. Dried food stains resonates on the curtian cloth they use to cover over the dishes. No dish warmers invested to maintain warmth for meals and keep away bacteria, food just cooked moved from back room to a cold front room. My eyes lingered on the cooked pumpkin that springed a lot of water with pumpkin strings, and the channa (chickpeas)and potato curry sat aging with cracks on the surface from the cold. The owner/manager/server cared little to keep up his exterior appearance. He looked more dishevelled than the dishes. One thing they kept true to their inherited culture is hiking up the price on everything and dishing out nasty customer service (wah yuh want?) - the colloquial meet and greet. If you have NO National Pride or forgot what that means to people from the Caribbean, close up business, otherwise the newly elected from 2024 will gladly do it for you!

January 2025: I pre-ordered 24 dhalpuri and 2 paratha (USD72.00) for a next day lunch party and to this moment all my guess and I regretted it! I should have just walked out and leave the order behind, but I just thought that maybe, a small maybe the roti would save face from...

I stumbled upon this restaurant and thought I would give it a fair chance, besides the reviews weren’t too bad. Unfortunately, I now understand why they are only 2/3 star. Firstly, I ordered 5 doubles I noticed the Channa was thick and dry, not the consistency for doubles at all, but I’m hungry, my kids are hungry and I was being hopeful that the taste will make up for it. NOPE!! It was awful, the Channa was not tasty neither the sauces…another MAJOR problem their prices are not consistent with their menu board. On the menu board a doubles was $2.00 b4 tax and at the register the lady charged me $2.50 each before tax she said that was always the price since they opened, I didn’t make it a problem just know I would prefer buy else where than to go back their again… as a true Trini totally not worth it. The actual dine -in experience, the AC is broken and we are in a heat wave and whilst eaten… a homeless lady came in the restaurant and shouted at me in gifting my kids…so there is no security at all...

I went over with some of my friends here. I don't know what we got since one of them ordered but it was good it was one of the costumers that made the experience terrible. We were a group of four, three of us Chinese. After we got our food we were chatting and eating. This other customer was very happy that Chinese people were trying their food. We had a short conversation with him and then he asked if he could take a video of us. We allowed him to start okay asking if we liked the food and what it was. Then he started saying "no more Chinese food" and other words along that line. We were starting to get awkward and stopped eating and turned our faces away. He got real close to one of us and started telling us to lick our fingers. My friend was not comfortable doing so and shook her head. He kept pressuring her to do so. So we packed up and left. This is my first time stepping out of my comfort zone and try foods that is not in my culture. So it left a really bad mark. I'm not too sure if...