A&A Bake & Doubles, Brooklyn
Been hearing so much great buzz about A&A that I decided they’d be the second restaurant I’d visit as part of my weekly “CBTPB” (“C.B’s Trains, Planes and Boats”) feature here on Eataku, where I make a food excursion using one of those methods of transportation. As much as I would have loved to have hopped a plane to Trinidad & Tobago, I ended up taking the A train out to Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn instead...
I’ve been to Trinidad & Tobago twice and fell in love with the country. Traveled there for work originally, where, unknown to many, they actually have a small but active comic scene, and visited the second time for a personal vacation, where we explored the local culinary and cooking scenes. We still use a lot of ingredients and recipes we acquired and learned about on that trip, but are always on the look out for good Trini restaurants. And now we’ve found a winner!
We went to A&A for their famous doubles, which arre two pieces of fried dough stuffed with curried chickpeas, only to have them sell out while we were in line. Doubles are usually eaten early, so we should have known to get there before noon. So instead we took whatever they had left when we got to the counter, which was a fry bake (fried bread) stuffed with salt fish and house made "spicy” sauce...
And also a roti bake filled with curried shrimp...
Both bakes were EXCELLENT! Two of the best bites we’ve eaten this year so far. The texture of each bread perfectly complimenting the fillings, the thinner and crunchier fry working well with the drier fish, with the more pillowy roti standing up well to the sauced shrimp.
We’ll be going back soon to not only have these again, but to try our best and get the doubles we missed by arriving too late. Just have to make sure we make it a morning excursion next time as A&A open at 6:30am!
A&A BAKE & DOUBLES SHOP
1337 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11216
347-425-0016