The Caribbean includes islands and countries as diverse as Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Antilles, Guadeloupe and Martinique, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Virgin Islands. Common foods like seafood, chicken and coconut, as well as recipes like jerk and callaloo, unite these islands into a culinary paradise. Because of its ability to unite the islands we thought what better way to symbolize this than to call the restaurant Callaloo.
Callaloo actually comes out of Africa with a history as rich as the dish itself. It is the familiar name for the large, heart shaped leaves of the root vegetable known as dasheen or taro or malanga. When cooked it has a consistency similar to spinach and is just as nutritious.