Squid Eats: Café Mamajuana

Caribbean restaurants seem to be on the rise in northwest Vermont, a welcome development by my reckoning.  The newest one for us is Café Mamajuana, a Dominican fusion place in Colchester.  We visited recently with friends and were most pleased.

I ordered the chicken and waffle enchilada off the specials menu.  

As a big fan of soul food in general, fried chicken and waffles is practically an obligatory order for me when I see it.  I'm not sure how the waffles themselves factored into the dish - the description said they were in the enchilada.  Wherever they were, the result was delicious.  I enthusiastically tried stuff off of other people's plates, too: my wife's La Canoa, a child's Tres Leches French Toast and salami from something.  All were good.

La Canoa

Café Mamajuana is only open 10-4, Wednesday to Saturday so the emphasis is brunch and lunch.  As for the "café," multiple coffee options and baked goods are all on offer.  We left with a couple doughnuts for the next day's breakfast, involving such exotic flavor choices as mango and guava.

Overall, it was a highly positive experience.  I'm sure we'll be back.  Sometime, I'd like to try the Poutine Dominica.