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The Cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago indicates a mix of Amerindian, European, African, Creole, Indian, Chinese and Lebanese gastronomic influences. Whenever you come here for business or leisure purpose, enjoy the cuisines of Trinidad and Tobago in the various restaurants in the Island. Here are some important and traditional cuisines of Trinidad and Tobago.

Many cuisines are popular choices for the morning meal in Trinidad and Tobago. For hot breakfasts he inhabitants prefer Sada roti with bodi, doubles, bake and shark, fry bake, fried potato, roasted eggplant, aubergine or melongene, tomato is often served with roti, saltfish, buljol, tomatoes, cucumbers and sometimes boiled eggs; black pudding with home-made coconut bread; fried accra; tannia cakes and boiled cassava with butter; fried fig with salt fish; fried left-over provisions with saltfish; fried corned beef with onions and tomatoes.

The Bake N Shark sandwich is most famously known as a delicacy at Maracas beach. The cold breakfasts includes the various home-made breads, roast bake, coconut bake; warm hops bread and New Zealand cheddar cheese.

The Curry Chicken and Roti is a nationally well-known main cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago. This dish was adopted from East Indian roots, where other favorite local dishes include curry crab, curry shrimp, curry duck and curry potato. These meals are often served with various rotis such as dalpuri, bus-up-shot, and of course sada. In addition, Trinidadians often add various pepper sauces to their meals like "mother-in-law" as well as curry mango, breadnut, channa, pumpkin, or mango kuchela.

Another nationally popular cuisine with distinctly African and indigenous roots is callaloo, ochro or okra, crab, thyme, coconut milk and shado beni or bhandhanya or cilantro. The Callaloo is often prepared with cornmeal coo coo, plantain, cassava, sweet-potatoes, and sometimes made with crab. Pelau is a rice-based dish and is a very popular dish in Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the other popular dishes are stewed chicken, breadfruit oil down, macaroni pie, pepperpot, ox-tails, among many others.

Another popular native cuisine includes the rare delicacy cascadu (cascadura), which is a small fresh water fish. There is a local legend in Trinidad that one who eats cascadu will return to Trinidad to end their days.

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