Tropical Joe's
Categories: Restaurants Caribbean Restaurants Fast Food Caribbean, Fast Food [Edit]
Gerrard Square Mall1000 Gerrard St E, Unit 1D
Toronto, ON M4M 3G6
(416) 461-5030
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 10 am - 9 pm
Sat 9 am - 6 pm
Sun 11 am - 6 pm
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
8 reviews for Tropical Joe's
8 reviews in English
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Review from Tracy W.
Toronto, ON
4/16/2012 8 Check-ins Here
Ok, ok, ok! First, I have to point out, as others have, that the Gerard Square Mall, which houses Tropical Joe's, is such an incredibly strange little place. I'll add here, that I'm pointing this out POST reno, so I can only imagine. Seriously? Where am I?! However, I digress. Let's examine the culinary offerings, now, shall we?
Tropical Joe's holds solid ground in the food court area of this kiosk mall. And I love it. Maybe not the healthiest dining option, however, the gluten free, super vegan, macro nutrient joints are not options under this roof. Instead, I go here. I've visited on a number of occasions, and it never ceases to delight that my food containers are repeatedly filled to the brim with various offerings. At $6.50, yes, $6.50, out comes a full leg and then some of jerk chicken, rammed in, atop rice and peas, and some mixed veggies. Crazy! Crazy good. A new favourite.
Other options include a various mix of roti, all full of flavorful curried chicken and potatoes, wrapped up in flaky roti shell. Hot sauce, optional, yet, never forgotten. One does not go hungry here.
Service is what one would expect from the venue, running the gambit of friendly to down right annoyed. However, I don't go for the chit chat, and the smiles, I go for the grub. You follow? -
Review from Sheila B.
Toronto, ON
8/3/2011
After a stop off at Home depot in gerrard square as you descend the escalator you are hit with a wiff of curry that is goood!! we had no intention of eating in the mall, but I have been told that the roti at this place was pretty good so without much haste we were upon Tropical Joe's.
The order was braised Oxtail with rice and Veggies the large order. They really pile on the food in that large styrofaom take-out container. some of the oxtail fell into the curry potatoes and she put a few in our food.
The oxtail was braised to perfection with a lot of meat on the bone and not much fat, the veggie are a mixture of cabbage and broccoli very nice and still a crunch on the cabbage. The couple of curry potatoes that were thrown in were so good that DH went back and got a small order for us to share as well. I would pass on the rice. It's not bad but the curry potatoes and oxtail w/veg is the order you would want.
$15 (this included the extra order of potato) next time i would order the oxtail and ask for potatoes instead of rice and it would be $9 bucks.
note: we didn't have the roti but will next time everyone else seem to be ordering those but that oxtail looked to fine to pass up -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
3/26/2011 3 photos
My small Jerk Chicken ($5.50) was jammed full...
- Chicken leg chopped up in pieces... (nice and moist and tender!)
- Pea with Rice (a little cold though.. but it is fast food!)
- Veggie medley (cabbage, broccoli and carrot, I need my veggie)
- Oxtail Sauce, Hot Sauce... (lady kept asking me if I want all these sauce)
- Big Smile and Thank You from the server
Good tasting and satisfying!
The Large for $1 seems like a better deal... double the size..but definitely something to share!Listed in: A Day in Leslieville!, Yes mon! Gaan to bed* with…
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Review from Chris T.
East York, ON
9/19/2011 3 Check-ins Here
One of the most flavourful curry goat I have had in awhile. I was drawn right away by the aroma coming from the spot. It overpowered all the other food court places with its amazing spice filled aroma.
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Review from Greg C.
Toronto, ON
6/6/2010 ROTD 3/18/2011
Since D&D Roti closed down on Gerrard and Greenwood, the (south)east end has seriously been lacking for a Roti fix. Enter Tropical Joe's.
I can't believe I hadn't heard about this place until recently. Oh wait, yes I can. It's tucked away in the back of the Gerrard Square food court. Seriously, other than procuring my Insane Clown Posse wardrobe, there would have been no other reason to stumble across this. But now you know and knowing is half the battle
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The boneless goat roti is good but I found it to be a little too "saucy" and too "bayleafy" (totally legitimate jargon. Look it up if you don't believe me.) for my liking. I believe this is more a regional thing so it's all up to your tastes. But the Channa, ohhh the Channa! Delicious and perfectly spiced. It's actually pretty hot and the fact that my friendly server asked if I wanted hot sauce made me question my manhood just a little. -
Review from Jenny T.
3/18/2010
I like this place better than The Jerk. Their portions are large, actually ginormous and so flavourful! The jerk chicken isn't dry like it is at The Jerk and it's cheap!
I don't think people normally go to a mall just to eat in the food court, but I have gone to G Square to eat here intentionally a few times and for take-out a few times.
My west-indian friends have also given this place a thumbs up! -
Review from Jeremy C.
Toronto, ON
5/19/2010
The best curried goat and jerk chicken that I've experienced in Toronto. And yes, my West Indian friends would agree.
The portions are usually substantial.
In fact, I'll be heading there in about 15 minutes for a small curried goat, half rice/peas and half veggies, with perhaps a little jerk gravy on the rice. -
Review from Jimi S.
ON
12/9/2008
it is thanks to our neighbourhood that we have, within our food court, a carribean food option called tropical joes. not that its any healthier than any other option perhaps, but ive been there a couple of times and i had a roti filled with goat and potatoes.
its a pretty healthy portion with a nice soft roti for about 5 bucks. they microwave the roti first to, um, i dont know, soften it? id definitely prefer everything without microwaves included, but hey its fast food.
so they take a couple deep spoonfuls of a potato curry mixture coupled with a couple deep scoops of goat and dump it in the roti, make an attempt at folding it together and shut the styrofoam container and youre off.
the sauce was great, the meat very tender and lots of it, the potatoes well cooked and the curry accompanied by a little kick. (you can get it spicier if you like). there were these little flakes of some sort that appeared every so often on or around the roti and im not sure what they were. it kind of looked like it was supposed to be there but who knows. not being all that precious about it, i gobbled it up anyway.
nice alternate choice for mall grub is tropical joes.
