Ritz Caribbean Foods

I’ve been about 3 times to get their Jerk Chicken. The large for $ 10.99 is great value. They give you 2 quarter legs. The service isn’t anything to write home about, but the food is fresh and tasty.

Like the below reviews point out, this place is only worth going to for the lunch special. The jerk chicken combo is delish and plenty of food for $ 6. The jerk chicken is so tender and juicy, it falls off the bone — just the way chicken should be cooked. The coleslaw is creamy and sweet, and the rice and peas are perfectly moistened by the gravy.
If you come here at lunch, you may find a long line up of construction workers, the office crowd, and locals but it usually doesn’t get busy until 12:30. Come early to get a seat inside and enjoy your lunch break listening to some reggae tunes while you eat.

Got a large jerk chicken. Not a lot of chicken and yet they charge u 11+ dollars. The chicken is dried and probably were previously frozen. The flavour is ok but u can find better ones in downtown. The service is alright thought not a clean environment. Oh well its yonge street. Won’t return again.

solid. lunch specials with jerk chicken are a solid pick, goat roti was excellent.

I just came back from my second visit here and everything was great, if not better than the first time. The jerk chicken was legit spicy, so good it almost made me eyes water and the coleslaw was nice and sweet to balance out the heat. I finished my jerk chicken lunch special completely satisfied.

First time eating jerk chicken and if this is the standard then I’m hooked! It’s amazing… you have to get in here and try the jerk chicken and coleslaw. a perfect combo of sweet and spicy. This place is a 10 in my book!!!

For $ 5, you get flavourful and good food! I haven’t eaten in at the restaurant so I can’t comment on it but their service for takeout is quick. Sometimes I pick up some jerk chicken for dinner before night class because it is so near Ryerson :)

Ritz is to jerk chicken as McDonalds is to the burger; you can’t go wrong or right with it. It fills you up when you are craving for jerk but it won’t leave a lasting impression for sure.
I do occasionally visit some of their nearby locations for when I am craving jerk (since there aren’t many options for Jerk around the Yonge and Dundas area). The price for their daily lunch special is cheap but the portions are on the smaller side as well. For about $ 6 you will get one chicken thigh and about a bowl of rice and some slaw which leaves me feeling unsatisfied. I can’t eat another one but at the same time I am not quite full yet. :(

I work around here and go here all the time for lunch. The other day I noticed for the 2^nd time now that they have cut back on the jerk chicken portions when you order the small or large. The flavour is still there, but that’s a deal-​breaker for me. I’m going else where for my Jamaican fare now.

This is an update to my review. Since last visiting, I have notice some significant changes. The quality and quantity of the food has diminished. I use to love the slaw but now the taste and amount they add to the meal is pitiful. The amount of chicken use to be very generous but now it looks like a gnawed on bone.
I under the cost to lease a commercial space in Toronto is expensive but I would be willing to pay a bit more for the same great food they use to make.

Came here on a weekend with friends and ordered the $ 5.99 lunch specials — we each ended up having one piece of each type of chicken (jerk, fried, and barbecue), with rice and beans, and coleslaw. Rice was bland — there was only a small ladle of gravy, enough to cover maybe ¹⁄₃ of the rice.
The chicken was all pretty dry. The jerk chicken was plenty spicy, but the spice seemed to overwhelm some of the other flavours. Barbecue was really mediocre — bone-​dry, chewy meat, with a passable (but dry!) sauce. The fried chicken was the best of the three — crispy outside and flavourful, but unfortunately just as dry as the jerk.
Service was quick, and the restaurant was clean.
That said, next time I crave Caribbean, I’ll go somewhere else.

On my trip today I had the jerk chicken dinner. I ordered the small, which was plenty of food. For under $ 10, it filled up all 285 pounds of me :-) I enjoyed my rice and beans, but I do think that is hard dish to mess up. The only time I remember having rice and beans that I didn’t like is when they were so gummy that it could have been used to spackle. The Jerk Chicken was super tender and well seasoned, but not spicy enough for me. They did have a few different varieties of hot sauce on the tables, go for the grace scotch bonnet its the most traditional flavor they had. If I were rating on my jerk chicken and rice and beans alone, I would have probably given closer to 3 stars. But there was one more component to my meal, the coleslaw. The coleslaw was amazing! I don’t know what they do to make it as delicious as it is, but it should be illegal. Hello my name is Tim and I’m a coleslawaholic… the weird thing is is I’m not even usually a fan of coleslaw, but this stuff was great. If I were rating just off of the coleslaw, 5 stars. Hence the four star rating. I will be back, if for nothing else the coleslaw. Give it a shot, I am sure you won’t be disappointed.

Ritz is one of those places that, whenever I pass it, I immediately think, «Am I hungry? Is it time to eat?» Because I always want an excuse to eat there. So very, very good… great food, fast service, reasonable prices. I have a Pavlovian drool response whenever I see their logo…

Beef patties ($ 1.25) are sooooo good! 5.99 $ lunch spacial is pretty decent as well. others are quite pricy consider the interior décor. really good for grab and go. need cash for lower than 5 bucks.

I had the Jerk Chicken lunch special for $ 5.99 and it was pretty good, though the sauce was a bit spicy! I do admit that I have a very low spicy tolerance though so it probably isn’t spicy at all to most people.
The chicken was tender, the coleslaw was decent, and the seasoned rice was good (not too oily but not too dry).
The portion size was average — they serve it to you in those standard square-​shaped styrofoam boxes.
For its price, I would say I got my money’s worth but I probably wouldn’t come here too often. The food’s alright but nothing spectacular. With so many great cuisines available downtown and some at even cheaper prices, I’d more likely «try something new» on a good day as opposed to come here again.

Huge portions and great service! 4 stars if you’re only dining in due to the dated décor, but this restaurant is the best for when you need a meal on the go. If you aren’t eating 3000 calories a day then the small should suffice. The large is huge, you have been warned.
PS: try the plantain

Had the Jerk Chicken Lunch special for $ 4.99, good portion and the coleslaw compliments the spiciness very nicely. Friend had the oxtail, generous portion as well. The interior is dated though.

When it’s a cold day and the line is out the door, you know there is something special about the food, drinks, people, or all of the above. The jerk chicken and gravy is amazing and pairs nicely with the cole slaw which adds some sweetness to cool down your mouth from all of the spices. The lunch portion is $ 5 and is your typical small square styrofoam box which comes with rice and beans, choice of jerk chicken /​fried chicken /​potentially some other protein, and choice of salad or cole slaw.
Make sure to also try the delicious home made bottled juices — mango passion fruit, strawberry banana and many other flavors.

It’s the kind of place you wish you heard of and got lunch at once in a while when you attended Ryerson, rather than afterwards. Their bloody savoury and juicy jerk and barbeque chicken certainly has bland campus food and College Park mall grub beat by a long sprint, especially when coupled with a $ 5 lunch special. Still pretty decent and cheap fast food at all other times too.
The cleanliness of the greasy-​spoon-​basics dining area isn’t always up to par, and the music’s usually ghetto-​blasted loud. But Ritz mostly serves a takeout crowd. Your order is overstuffed with rice and coleslaw, and will have your tummy jerked full and your tastebuds dancing the moment you walk out the door.
It’s not exactly the best Caribbean food in Toronto, but it’s hard to complain about the value you get out of that warm styrofoam container in your hands.

Jerk chicken with rice and bean topped with ox tail gravy and a side of coleslaw was great. It mixed well together and very filling. I also had the Penut punch for $ 5 for a bottle. The drink was interesting and should really be desert, very thick sweet with a hint of ginseng. I was told that it was sort of a energy drink.
I was the first to walk in (1058am), and they were just setting up. What killed me was that as I was eating, I noticed the counter guy drag out three 1.5 M long door mat and laid them from door to around the counter. He arranged them nicely with his bare hands and then went back to the food counter and served eveyone else who came in without clean gloves and without washing hands.
I was disgusted. Now I didn’t know what part of the jerk chicken was from the ground and what is from spice. These are tell tail signs of what is going on in the kitchen and although I really liked the food, I will never come back again.