We like to consider ourselves adventurous people with no plane tickets. We don’t get to travel much of the world, but we will go to semi-great lengths to find something new. One of the ways we like to find new things is by using a site called Groupon.
Groupon is a site in which a new business trying to get business will deeply discount their prices. In the case of Dhat Island they were offering a pre-paid coupon of $20 dollars for only $9 dollars. That plus the fact that a new Disney movie (Tangled) was coming out across the street was more than enough planning than we needed to do to ensure that we would have a happy anniversary (8 yrs go by fast).
According to the staff at Dhat Island they started out as a catering place and are now trying their hand at being a restaurant. The location is easy to find off the 10 freeway, but it shows that they are still getting used to being a restaurant. Luckily for them though they are a Caribbean themed restaurant and so if the place seems a little laid back it is all in tune to the theming.
Now you would think by the amount of times I have been on those boats at Disneyland I would be an expert on all things Caribbean, but alas I am not. Had you asked me what Caribbean food was supposed to look like I might of just of muttered something about Blue Bayou and mint juleps (which by the way are not Haitian). When I asked what the best thing on the menu was the server said that it was the chicken, but the thing was I wasn’t really craving chicken at that moment (it just so happened that Denise had cooked chicken the entire week before). What I really wanted was pasta and surprisingly they actually had pasta! Not only that, but when I asked the server about this he said they had pasta all the time in Haiti, who knew?!!
The pasta was definitely different but it was good. It was in a creamy white sauce and had little peas (at least I think they were peas). I am not usually a fan of peas, but it was good, kind akin to macaroni salad, but with white cheese and a little bit of chicken (guess there was no getting away from chicken that week). Denise had a eggplant creole dish, which she said she liked. I tried a bite and it was good, but it looked and tasted just like gumbo to me (than again I never claimed my taste buds to be that refined).
All in all it was a good, fun place to go. The staff is very nice and the the prices are decent. I do hope they get more popular, if only so they get a better parking lot.
I want to say thank you to my Uncle Bob who’s blog post reminded me that I needed to write about this place myself. If you are interested in reading his review of the place you can go HERE. Hope you try it out. I think you just might like it.
We bought two Groupons for this place, so we’ll probably go again. I want to try one of their salads.