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Bridgetown Roti
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From breakfast sandwiches dropped via bucket to Balinese nasi jinggo, LA’s incredible wave of pop-ups just keeps rolling. If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all, we understand. While we certainly endorse firing up a trusty Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the details, it’s also good to keep a simple, clean priority list with you at all times. We’ll even help you get started: Put Bridgetown Roti near the top.
Operating out of Crafted Kitchen in the Arts District (a commissary used by many different pop-ups right now), Bridgetown Roti is run by Chef Rashida Holmes, and specializes in Caribbean street food highlighting her Bajan heritage. The ever-changing menu is tight, consisting generally of four varieties of flaky patties, plus fish cakes and roti wraps - the latter of which tends to sell out within hours. The menu goes live midweek, so keep an eye on their Instagram, as pick-ups are scheduled over weekends.
The food of Barbados has diverse influences - including Indian, African, Creole, Irish, Portuguese, and British - making it some of the most unique and boldly flavored cuisine in the Western Hemisphere. And Bridgetown Roti doesn’t shy away from that fact whatsoever. Whether it’s a turmeric-laced patty stuffed with callaloo greens and crab meat, curry chicken roti wraps, or their pineapple-habanero house dipping sauce, this is the kind of spicy, savory food that makes you lean back in your chair, close your eyes, and mentally lock-in how good your body feels at this very moment. And if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we need as many of those moments as possible. Bridgetown Roti is here to help.
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Oxtail And Peppers Patty
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Roti Wrap
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