{"id":1774,"date":"2011-01-10T00:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pedrozaplace.com\/blog1\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2011-01-10T00:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:55:35","slug":"dhat-island-redlands-ca-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/dhat-island-redlands-ca-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhat Island, Redlands, CA 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dhat would be Denise at Dhat Island.<\/p><\/div>\n

We like to consider ourselves adventurous people with no plane tickets. We don’t get to travel much of the world, but we will go to semi-great lengths to find something new. One of the ways we like to find new things is by using a site called Groupon<\/a>.
\nGroupon is a site in which a new business trying to get business will deeply discount their prices. In the case of Dhat Island<\/a> they were offering a pre-paid coupon of $20 dollars for only $9 dollars. That plus the fact that a new Disney movie (Tangled) was coming out across the street was more than enough planning than we needed to do to ensure that we would have a happy anniversary (8 yrs go by fast).
\nAccording to the staff at Dhat Island they started out as a catering place and are now trying their hand at being a restaurant. The location is easy to find off the 10 freeway, but it shows that they are still getting used to being a restaurant. Luckily for them though they are a Caribbean themed restaurant and so if the place seems a little laid back it is all in tune to the theming.
\nNow you would think by the amount of times I have been on those boats at Disneyland I would be an expert on all things Caribbean, but alas I am not. Had you asked me what Caribbean food was supposed to look like I might of just of muttered something about Blue Bayou and mint juleps (which by the way are not Haitian). When I asked what the best thing on the menu was the server said that it was the chicken, but the thing was I wasn’t really craving chicken at that moment (it just so happened that Denise had cooked chicken the entire week before). What I really wanted was pasta and surprisingly they actually had pasta! Not only that, but when I asked the server about this he said they had pasta all the time in Haiti, who knew?!!
\nThe pasta was definitely different but it was good. It was in a creamy white sauce and had little peas (at least I think they were peas). I am not usually a fan of peas, but it was good, kind akin to macaroni salad, but with white cheese and a little bit of chicken (guess there was no getting away from chicken that week). Denise had a eggplant creole dish, which she said she liked. I tried a bite and it was good, but it looked and tasted just like gumbo to me (than again I never claimed my taste buds to be that refined).
\nAll in all it was a good, fun place to go. The staff is very nice and the the prices are decent. I do hope they get more popular, if only so they get a better parking lot.
\nI want to say thank you to my Uncle Bob who’s blog post<\/a> reminded me that I needed to write about this place myself. If you are interested in reading his review of the place you can go HERE<\/a>. Hope you try it out. I think you just might like it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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