Paros Souvla

Compared to the price, the potion is small. You can get the same portion with lower price at OPA! It is a friendly place but the prices are not reasonable. I personally don’t recommend.

I love this place as its close to home and makes the best calamari in Calgary! The batter is light, the squid is tender and the tzatziki is amazing.
I also like the lamb and the chicken and the sift, warm puts bread. Salads are very fresh and light tasting without the overpowering flavour of onions which happens at many places– here, it’s well balanced. Very friendly service and the guys are great at remembering their clientele. Thank you for opening up a place in our neighbourhood!!!

Great service… Great food… Will keep you going back for more… nothing like I have ever had before… Opa should watch out if these guys open another location …

Outstanding. I had the lamb, it was tender and delicious. And they got the tzatziki right!

Very clean but small eating area. Fast and friendly counter service. Food was prepared quickly and smells delicious. Chicken Souvla platter was a bit oily for my taste, but well seasoned. Only drawback was they were out of lamb that day, which I was really hoping to try. All in all a great place to grab some quality Greek food at an okay price. Going to make my daughter order the calamari next time, as I hear it is mighty fine.

A colleague recommended Paros to me because she’s a fan of their resto in Airdrie.
If you like OPA! Souvlaki you will LOVE Paros.
We tried the lamb platters — one with a side of greek salad and one with potatoes. Real pieces of feta on the greek side salad, ‘real’ greek potato sides, and tzakiki sauce that tastes like yogurt. Lots of garlic flavour. Real pieces of lamb — not just little cubes of meat. Fluffy pita — like angel’s wings — (sorry for rhapsodizing but it was SO yummy). Everything is tasty, fresh and packed with mediterranean goodness. I hear the calamari is good too. Can’t wait to go back or check out the dining experience in Airdrie.
The service and atmosphere is what you’d expect in a take-​out. It was a bit quiet when we were there on a Sunday afternoon.
Food: ⁹⁄₁₀
Service: ⁹⁄₁₀
Atmosphere: ⁷⁄₁₀
Question: When will there be a Paros in my neighbourhood or near my work? It can’t happen too soon.

This place is the most delicious Greek food I have ever tried yet. The guys are such wonderful, and always in a fantastic mood. Everything on their menu is to die for… Everything is just made fresh, and made with love. This is nothing like Opa, please don’t compare these two. Try this and you will thank me forever.

The best Greek food we’ve had! We had the zucchini chips which were amazing, the potatoes which were lemony and delicious, the salad which was covered in a unique light dressing and very mild feta and very yummy! And the rice which my daughter gobbled up and said was the best she’s had! Yes a bit pricey but every bite was delicious!

Good if you are looking for a good Greek place nearby! I like to always tell people that it’s kind of like Opa, but a little bit better and a little bit pricier.
Potatoes are super good here! Cute little space inside, but not a ton of sitting space. Since it’s in the neighbourhood though, I would even recommend getting it to go and eating at home if you live close by. The cashier was extremely helpful and patient with me the first time I visited.
Parking lot here is a little bit weird; you may or may not find parking near the restaurant and walk a little.

Great Greek meal, everything made fresh in front of you! May seen a little pricey but I think it’s worth it for locally sourced and authentic Greek ingredients. The lamb is good, good calamari too. The house dressing was nice, light and fresh tasting. Had takeout, but the restaurant seemed nice, clean and definitely new. Will return I’m sure!

Get the calamari. I went to Paros solely based on the Unilocal reviews. The chicken wrap was good — saucy and packed full of meat and veggies. The only thing I didn’t like about the wrap was the fries were overcooked and cold.
The calamari batter was light, not oily and it melted on your tongue. The squid was tender and came in toothsome rings. The squid was so good, I went back and ordered another half portion.

Best Calamari in town! The wraps are awesome and you can tell how much care and love these guys put into their food. All the staff are super friendly and knowledgeable.
Every time I drive by I want to go in.

The food here is delicious– no issues at all there. Portion size is adequate but you don’t get as much food here as you would at other Greek places.
I’ve come in before for the gyros and a side of fries and they hit the spot for lunch and at a reasonable price, about $ 10.
I went in for an early dinner the other day and I settled on a chicken souvlaki plate/​platter and here is where it got confusing– in a platter you get a choice of meat with bread and tatziki… they include grilled mixed veg as well alongside the chicken skewer. Very good, they were a nice addition. So there are a few sides to chose from to accompany the aforementioned, they are fries, baked potato, rice or one of two kinds of house salads. The thing is you only get one of these sides and if you upgrade to a Greek salad you have to pay a buck more. Isn’t the Greek salad something that is usually a standard side with the meat, bread and tatziki? Most Greek places offer a potato and/​or rice as the side and you are not charged extra. Also many places give you extra olives at no charge, here they were an additional $ 2! I was not aware of these extra charges till after I paid. BTW I only wanted a couple extra olives, $ 2 seems excessive.
I needed some rice or potato so settled on the fries. They were an additional $ 3.50 and the serving size was quite small, (I’d say about 15 fries) on the plus side they are home style and they give you a bigger side of tatziki with them than you get with the actual meal.
The tatziki was good but a little heavy handed on the garlic and lacking on the cucumber.
I added a beverage and was just over $ 20.
Don’t get me wrong, the guys that work there look like they are family and I was happy to see true Greeks running the place– the authenticity was spot on flavour and the Greek salad topped with the real deal feta was excellent, you can tell it was imported, not like the garbage you get from your run of the mill grocery store; but to pay to upgrade to a Greek salad at Greek restaurant makes no sense.
86 the nickel and diming please. Paying over $ 6 for fries, a few extra olives and a salad ‘upgrade’ that should be included in the meal is tacky. Add either a rice or potato with the meal and I’m sure that the place would be busier. Unfortunately, it was on the pricier side for Greek takeout.
They also had two desert offerings but I would have been over $ 25 if I indulged! Eeeeek!
3.5 stars. Very good food but quantity has to match the quality for a $ 20+ dinner.

Calamari is superb. I found the pork overcooked and dry. Decent food small place but it needs a double door entrance as it is gets a cool breeze.

If you don’t live in NW Calgary, find some excuse to visit the Royal Oak area and hit this place! It is seriously that amazing!!!
You order from the counter and then get served your meal. The menu board is quite varied with traditional Souvlas and Souvlaki plates, pita wraps, and also Spit roasted meat.
I tried the Lamb Souvla-​Ah-​mazing! Soooo tender it just melted in my mouth. My plate contained pillowy pita, tender roasted potatoes and veg plus tzatziki sauce. All found there way quickly into my belly. My husband had the same but with chicken-​equally tender and delish.
I will be back-​you should go too!

Yummy chicken platter was yummy amaz9ng. A bit soppy on the chicken cuz im a diva and need everything fresh pounded and beaten esp for me. Gf had fried zuchini. which tasted like poro snacks… yummy

We ordered to go and was so impressed that its made at time of order! Fresh, quick and very friendly staff. We ordered a few different things so we can sample the menu since it was our first time having food from this new Greek joint. Everything was delicious! I wish we would have ordered more, defiantly will next time. The tzatziki is to die for. Fresh and authentic. Can’t wait to go back!!!

Fantastic fresh and wholesome Greek food! We ordered the Roasted Lamb Plate with Paros Salad and another of the same plate but with the rice. The plates all came with pita bread, tzatziki sauce and roasted vegetables. Best roasted lamb I’ve ever had! Everything we ordered was soooooooo good!
We ordered to go and watched these 3 guys cook up our dinner and was so impressed! I saw their deep-​fried calamari being made and I decided to order a full order of the calamari. It was the best decision ever! Truly, truly, tender and moist calamari topped with onion and their wonderful tzatziki sauce!
Guys, you outdid yourselves! Fantasticos! We will be back!

Yay! Some delicious greek food close to home. Loving the new places going into Royal Oak landing and this is one of the very newest.
My first impression of establishment when entering was another OPA! with a better designer. Thankfully, ordering style and the cooking line and the general flow of the menu is the last of the reminders of a subpar greek chain. Paros Soulva is really fresh, bursting with flavour and high quality for a «food fair» type service. The only thing weird is eating such good food with plastic forks — it could easily be served in a good quality table service establishment with an inflated price.
This place has been open a week — I’ve been in twice already! At first the menu confused me, and the cashier was new so we bumbled through it together but I’ve got it figured out now. My first trip I got a veggie souvlaki plate which is a skewer of roasted veggies served with a side (lemon potatoes for me, pita, tzatziki and roasted vegetables. A skewer of veggies has a HIGH potential of being very boring but it was executed wonderfully as it was seasoned to perfection. Each element of the plate had a unique, bold and wonderful flavour. I have to say I am totally in love with the lemon potatoes — very much a powerful lemon flavour but missing the acidity and it wasn’t too sour. I’ve had a bite of the rice which was also nice and tried some fries which are alright but a bit too crunchy for my tastes. The greek pita is so good — I’m not sure if they are making it there but it’s so fresh and moist while still browned on the grill as expected. I would be so surprised if the tzatziki is not freshly made there — some of the best I’ve had in a long time. Really the only negative things to say about the veggie plate is that it was very heavy (no fat free dieter allowed here) and that the roasted veggies featured eggplant which is not a veggie I like that much (in fairness, I ate them because they were still prepared well). We finished off with Bougatsa which is a creamy custard filled phyllo pastry sprinkled with white sugar and cinnamon. These things are HUGE — Easily shared by two and possibly 4 if you want just a small sweet treat. I really enjoyed it but I certainly didn’t need a full portion like I had ordered for myself unaware of the size.
Trip two I got a veggie wrap, shared the spanakopita and an order of pita and tzatziki with some baklava to go. The veggie wrap was yummy but I liked it less than the full plate. I like the amount of food better — it’s a smaller meal but the roasted veggies were moist and added tzatziki made it very messy and drippy. The pita wrap was probably the best part — just love them — but the filling was all very good. Maybe there is a better strategy to eat the wrap (even if it’s just eating the filling a bit with a fork first) to make it a better experience. The spanakopita is good — it’s a large square shape making it softer than the small triangle style alternatives. The pastry was moist but the spinach wasn’t over moist which is the other extreme. It’s a fairly large portion and it doesn’t come with tzatziki so I was glad to already have some to go with it. Baklava was good — very nutty and more so than some others I can think of but well prepared. I think I prefer the bougatsa though if I have someone to share with. prices for this and the other food were reasonable but a touch high for the typical food fair style food — good thing it’s much higher quality making it a bit of a deal! :)
As a vegetarian I’ve made it this far while glossing over the Soulva — which is spit roasted meats and kind of one of their main things. My fianace tells me these are fantastic — I find it interesting you can order it by the ¼, ½ and full KG. That’s a lot of meat and it doesn’t come with sides! The pricing of it seems reasonable but I’m guessing you’d have to have a number of people to share those larger portions while ordering some sides to go along with it.
Service here is good even though minimal service levels are expected in this style of dining. I’m thinking the majority of the cooks are owners and maybe related. They have really gone out of their way to make the experience a nice one and are invested in the food being successful. Table service doesn’t seem to be the operational plan but a number of things were served to us.
I love the food here and the only think I love more is that it’s close to me. Opa across the street is in for a world of hurt now that they are on the scene. The only wish was the food was lighter with less oil for the health reasons and so I can justify coming here a bit more often. Totally give this place a try, the menu says they offer delivery but didn’t specify the range.

I came upon Paros Souvla while driving around the still developing shopping/​eating area near the Royal Oak neighbourhood.
The restaurant is small, with maybe 15 tables. You order at the counter for either eat-​in or take out. As the food takes longer to prepare than standard fast-​food greek, the staff brought the food to our table after waiting a few minutes.
The menu has (or at least seems to have) a fairly authentic greek offering, with more than the standard «greek» salad. For $ 12, I ordered one the the «plates» which comes with choice of meat, choice of side, grilled veggies, pita and tzatziki. I tried the chicken souvla and the pilos salad. The chicken was juicy and flavourful. The salad was a chopped salad of sorts with a very fresh dressing. I especially enjoyed the thick pita and dip. The portions were generous and I left full.
I will definitely visit this business again. as multiple visits are required to try all the meat and side options that the restaurant prepares.