Bacchus Roti Shop

Delicious! Best Roti you’ll find in the west end!

The prices are a tad high but the food is on point. Service staff is very friendly too even when I got there near closing time.
I had the jerk chicken and curry chicken rotis to go. There’s a solid amount of food, I was getting a workout carrying the bag back to the car just steps away.
The rotis were full of flavour and very saucy. Would definitely be back to try the goat and beef.

Portions are massive and delicious. Unless you’re STARVING you can definitely share one with someone. Service was friendly and fast. My husband got the jerk chicken roti and couldn’t stop raving about it. I had the chicken and potato roti and it was perfect for me because I don’t like food too spicy. We also got a few drinks which were very reasonably priced. Definitely lived up to our expectations. Seriously the portions are huge so keep that in mind.

One of my fav roti shops. Great taste and huge portions.

Their goat roti is super yummy, and homemade peanut shake just like my mom makes it. I like the atmosphere too! There’s a lot of roti shops in Parkdale but Bacchus is where I go.

We found this place while watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain. So, we put it on our list of places to try.
Well, we tried so many food spots there was no way we could eat here too. But, we decided to take a 30 minute trolley ride from our last food spot to pick up some jerk chicken roti and freeze it in our hotel fridge to take back home. Our flight was less than 90 minutes so it pretty much stayed frozen.
I defrosted it in the refridgerator and had it for lunch at work yesterday. O-​M-​G. Some of the best Roti I have ever had and I have been to a few spots in Trinidad. If it was this good a few days later than I could only imagine what it would have been like fresh.
At first I thought it was a small amount of chicken but not really. You can cut it up to eat with the curried potatos. The curry potatoes with a bite of the perfectly seasoned jerk chicken was heavenly. I just wished I had a little pepper sauce.
This was well worth the 30 minute trolley ride we took there and back from our hotel. Will absolutely stop by here again when I am in Toronto but this time I might buy a few to freeze. Pricing is reasonable… I think we paid $ 9 CAD.

It’s a matter of taste but I really think this is the best roti in Toronto. The staff are great although it’s really busy there often, so they can be rushed. I wish they were open Sundays!

Prices a tad high, however customer service and quality of food quite excellent.
Been going to this venue for many years now, and it’s the kind of place I go every once in a while due to the price.
The quality of the roti served at this location is quite excellent however, which keeps me coming back for me.
One of the last times I went to this venue, I realized that they were closing earlier than I anticipated, and there wasn’t much time left until they closed. I called them to see if they’d be able to take my order, and they told me that as long as I were to arrive before closing, they’d be able to serve me. I hurried along and drove there (was initially going to walk, but wouldn’t be able to make it in time), and I made it a few minutes before they closed. I was served with a smile, and nothing be good gestures.
All-​in-​all, I’m quite happy with Bacchus, and would definitely return there again.

The interior of this place is quite nice and the service was polite and efficient. But the food was badly lacking. My curry chicken was too vinegary. The coconut rice was fine but the spinach was extremely bland and tasteless. The green beans were a bit better. My meal didn’t come cheaply either so I don’t see myself returning here.

i came here because i saw bourdain eat here on his short layover series. i gotta admit the curry was not bad. i had the goat with eggplant and my girl had the chicken. the roti is wrapped around it like a burrito. its a huge thing to eat. for the price its on the expensive side. but my main complaint is that the roti wasnt flaky enough. having lived in malaysia for a short period ive had some really great indian roti. this was just ok for a store with the word roti in it. if youre around the area give it a try but not worth it just to come here if its out of the way

The hygiene of this place is questionable. While i enjoyed the first few times i ordered there i later discovered that the roti had lint stuck to it like a cotton ball was smeared all over it. At first i was picked it off thinking oh nothing to worry about, but more and more lint was all over the roti!
So disappointed as i liked their roti.
If the owners of the establishment are reading this, what was that? Are you not aware of the food you prepare?
I would love to give this place another chance, but…

Amazing food. Awesome hot sauce. The curry chicken with squash and spinach was amazing.

strictly based on ROTI… average to good. The best Roti I’ve had (still to this day) is ROTI HUT, unfortunately it’s in Scarborough (yuck!). Bacchus is decent for Parkdale, but definitely NOT great.

This place puts a lot of meat in their roti. I ordered the beef curry roti which was full. The only thing was I ate one side and there were more potatoes and the other side had more beef. not a big deal.
The staff seemed quite friendly and when I went for a takeout bag she was holding, she kindly told me mine would be out very shortly and it was.
This is definitely a knife+fork type of roti, as I ate it I’d say it could be wrapped better, but as long as I had knife+fork I didn’t care that the beef and potatoes were coming out from the sides.
Although I did not drink, they have a full bar menu and cheap too! $ 5 for a drink.
I’d come here again.

I use to eat here regularly about 10 years ago and loved it. Now I usually go to Island Foods at King and Dufferin, but the line up was out the door, so I thought I’d try Bacchus again. Empty restaurant at Bacchus. My roti of 3 veg was okay. I think I just prefer IF.

I’d heard so much about Bacchus Roti Shop and was really excited to go!
The roti was pretty good, but it wasn’t made with dhal puri, which is my preference. The curry was tasty but nothing special. I thought the prices were pretty high for roti.

Bacchus makes Guyanese roti which, if you ask other people from the Caribbean, is not the real thing, haha, but then what is real? I have tried their chicken as well as squash-​chickpea roti but I always find that something, a key ingredient, is missing in their sweet-​ish curry flavouring.
I couldn’t place my finger on what exactly it was (it’s still a mystery) until I noticed that hardly any Guyanese (let alone Caribbean) folks get food from this restaurant. Ok, so it’s customized for western palettes, like most other places in Toronto, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Generally when I host travellers through couchsurfing, or I am recommending a place for someone who has never had roti before, I suggest this place. But for proper roti lovers, I beg to differ. Parkdale has a high concentration of Roti shops so it may be worthwhile checking them out too.

Sunny days have me hankering for island food so i decided to visit a former favourite, Bacchus Roti.
So disappointing. They get 2 stars for a clean space and efficient service, but only someone who has never had good authentic roti would think that oily mushy mess of potato, bland curry and meager servings of shrimp in one case, chicken in the other (barely discernible) was good. This is not the Bacchus roti I remember from an earlier time and this explains why it could be completely empty at dinnertime. My quest for Caribbean flavours must continue down the block — westward, like Columbus.

When I first walked into this roti shop I thought I had stepped into the wrong shop… The décor is more what you’d expect out of a coffee shop than you would of a roti shop.
Alas, more expensive décor does not come without a price — $ 15 for a Goat Curry Roti with squash, spinach and potatoes. This is probably the most expensive roti I have ever had in my life.
With that said, I liked the fact that their roti is not just all empty carbs and that the ingredients they use are a little more on the healthy side. At $ 15, the roti was pretty huge and is enough for 2 meals. If you can finish 1 roti by yourself in 1 sitting I applaud you! The roti itself is nice and thin, not too oily, and just the right amount of crispy and soft. Unfortunately, it does become a little bit messy to eat when you cut through it. I’m glad I wasn’t on a date! The goat was boneless and extremely tender.
Service-​wise this is a husband-​wife tag team and service is not the greatest as I saw the counter unattended many times while customers piled in.
Verdict:
Though expensive, it is quite a gratifying and satisfying meal on a chilly autumn day. This is probably one of the better rotis I’ve had — rivalling Mona’s Roti in Scarborough. However, Mona’s is much cheaper, and is equally tasty!

Maybe it’s just me, but Bacchus does seem to have slightly irregular hours, which can tend to be annoying at times especially when making the cross-​city trek. BUT… Bacchus is truly a rare find-​a place that forces you to make this pseudo pilgrimage with regularity. Their tasty boneless jerk chicken offering with sides of rice n peas, sweet potatoes and creamy slaw has yet to disappoint.
I have sampled some of their veggie roti’s and they were equally fantastic. Yet at the end of the day I’m a true carnivore at heart and find it difficult to stray from the tried, tested and true jerk chicken that Bacchus does to near perfection. On a side note, there are no salt and pepper shakers on tables-​the food is seasoned perfectly, so that having them would be merely superfluous.
Word to the wise-​try the peanut punch in the large fridge adjacent to the ordering counter, this Caribbean staple is primarily made with condensed milk, peanut butter, milk and sometimes nutmeg, for those looking to get their swerve on it is also hypothesized to hold certain aphrodisiac powers. So who knows where a meal at Bacchus may lead…