Restaurant Review #2: The Original Breakfast Shed

Femmes Du Chalez; The Original Breakfast Shed, came into existence in 1936 because of the efforts of Audrey Layne Jeffers, founder of the Coterie of Social Workers, women’s movement activist, and her supporter Capt. Arthur Andrew Cipriani. The latter was Mayor of Port-of-Spain in the 1930s.  

The idea behind the Breakfast Shed according to Jeffers was to improve the conditions under which workers on the wharf ate.  It eventually became the spot for dock workers and the blue collar set as it transitioned over the years from its charitable beginnings into a full-fledged enterprise.  It is now a cherished Trinidad and Tobago institution. 

The menu of the various vendors includes saltfish buljol and coconut bake, macaroni pie, stew chicken, boil or sautéed provisions, coo coo, chicken pelau, curries, soups (corn, cowheel, and oxtail) and even freshly made punches. 

Located at Wrightson Road in Port of Spain (just before the Hyatt Hotel), you can enjoy a selection of traditional Trini breakfast and lunch meals daily from 6:30 am to 4:00pm.  Feel free to dine in or take away your meals. 

The food here is great and the atmosphere is lively that it’s really hard to go back to work after having a meal here. So whenever you’re in Port of Spain stop by here and you will taste for yourself, the meals that keep people coming back for more... 

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