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Sunrise Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Caribbean Caribbean [Edit]
168 Kennedy Rd SBrampton, ON L6W 3G6
(905) 457-3049
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- Good for Groups:
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2 reviews for Sunrise Restaurant
2 reviews in English
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Review from Ryan F.
4/13/2011
I can't believe people haven't tried this place yet, especially after janelle's great review!
So let me do a refresher of this place.
When approaching it one should be very cautious to not let first impressions fool you. The sign is very colorful but in one of the most dreary areas, let alone strip malls. I'll be honest I would probably not even stop at the nearest light anytime after 5 pm ( yes that sketchy) but again first impressions are deceiving!!!!
But don't let second impressions fool you either, because on entering you will literally think " what happened to harvey's!!!". The seating and layout are a perfect emulation of any local harvey's!
And if you are hoping the staff will impress you..... They won't. They aren't the most happy people but they are quick and efficient about getting you your food.
So after all these impressions its really the final but most important impression that should blow you away... the food!
I had the jerk chicken combo and at first i wasn't impressed with my rice and chicken until I put it in my mouth and WOW! The spices are just amazing and the chicken is so soft! I ve tried jerk chicken before and haven't been a fan, but this dish definitely made me want to try more jerk.
I dont know about the roti or the other dishes, but if janelle is right and this is the real jamacian food....I think I know where my next vacation is going to be!
And to top it off everything is around 7$ so it's not a bad deal to taste a little caribbean, west of the 410. -
Review from Janelle W.
1/24/2010
One of my best friends, who spends every Christmas tanning and thawing in the Caribbean, thinks I'm crazy because I always run off somewhere even more frigid than our Michigan, instead of joining her in the tropics. Ironically, I'm the one who ends up eating Caribbean food while she's popping piña colada shrimp and macadamia-encrusted scallops at her Sandals all-inclusive.
Sunrise offers honest-to-goodness homestyle Jamaican food. In the Sunrise kitchen, you'll never find an excessively-pineappled marinade, nor a plate of bastardized Mexican food muddled in coconut. This is the common people's Jamaican food--curries, rotis, jerk chicken, oxtail--the savory favorites found on the streets of real Jamaica, kept outside the perimeter of the prodigious resorts.
Canada has embraced the strip mall like lesbians have embraced the mullet, so it should come as no surprise that Sunrise has a snug little suite at the end of a typical Brampton strip mall. Sunrise looks and feels fast-food: formica tables, firm plastic seats, and even a drive-through. Wait service is nonexistent; you walk up to the counter to place your order, they'll toss some styrofoam clamshells full of food onto a tray, and you carry your tray over to your chosen table. But upon tasting the food, any semblance of Harvey's is lost--this food is crafted with time, love, and the fresh intensity of Latin flavors.
The meats at Sunrise define the paradigm for slow cooking. Time is the essential ingredient to making these meats tender, juicy, and melt-in-your-mouth succulent. Throughout the day, the flesh of the bone-in chicken and oxtail has been simmering and sorbing the intense curry and allspice flavors.
Sunrise's roti ($7, a steal!) is the ultimate comfort food--a buttery, pliable flatbread folded like a purse, as big as my keyboard, filled with rich, savory, slightly spicy curry. Choose from chicken-potato or beef-potato curry, both thick, dense, and texturally multi-dimensional. The spices woven into this curry are as well-balanced as the scales of Libra. So many Caribbean curries are heavy on curry powder, but Sunrise's spice mixture is balanced with identifiable undertones of ginger, allspice, and cinnamon.
Most addicting, though, is the roti itself. This is a dreamy, pillowy roti that stretches and springs like Silly Putty®. It's a sheet of heaven itself--smooth, buttery, flaky, and soaks up the curry like a chewy sponge.
I'm never going to winter in the tropics. That's not my style--I'm a cheapskate off-season traveler. I'll go to the Caribbean during hurricane season, when they're giving away 4-star hotel rooms for free. So when I'm stuck on the 45th parallel in the dead of winter, when everyone else is escaping to the Caribbean, at least Sunrise lets me eat like I'm in the soulful warm weather too.
