Flavors Cafe & Eatery

I think Flavors has improved since the last time I went. This past winter, I stopped in to have a nice quiet dinner alone. I ordered the chicken Philly cheese steak and it was delicious. Along with my meal, I had a Nutella latte which was a really nice treat and nice way to end my dinner. The time that I went there was only one other person there which was perfect because it gave me time to sit, relax and read my book. I would definitely go there again and have their philly cheese steak sandwich again. But this time I would order it mild because it was a bit too spicy for my liking!

We visit this shisha café more frequently than any other in Scarborough or Pickering. While the service can be a little slow on busy nights (what shisha place has amazingly fast service anyway?), the employees are great and courteous. The owner is usually there and he’s a very nice guy who goes out of his way to please the customers. There’s a good selection of shisha flavours and the food is actually amazing quality for a small time shisha joint, and the owner is more than happy to recommend something new to try.
From the first time we visited the location I’ve loved the décor and ambience of the café. From the comfortable couches to the interesting art on the walls, the two televisions on either side, a few spots near the windows, and clean well done washrooms, it’s a much better shisha place than a lot of others outside of downtown Toronto.
Good to go relax on a weeknight, if you’re not keen on a younger crowd with a possibility of noise, then avoid Friday or Saturday nights around clubbing time because there’s the Cocktail House in the same plaza and you’re likely to get pre-​drinkers and some already drunk people.
Give it a try for yourself if you just want a good night of shisha and conversation.

I am visiting from DC and I just went to this place for a local flavor. Wow what bad service and all the smoke in there for no reason. I ordered a philly cheese sandwich to see how they do it and I got a chicken sandwich. I ordered fries and I didn’t get it. I was already so tired I didn’t even complain about the sandwich because I figured their Philly cheese would be terrible anyway. Well my tiny, burnt tasteless chicken sandwich was disappointing. Flavors proved me no local flavor more like disappointing.

We were visiting Oshawa and read up on a halal website that had great reviews on this place. We didn’t dine in so we can’t review the ambience. We called in our order and picked it up to go.
We ordered Philly cheesesteak & the lamb BLT. Both orders came with fries and I substituted one of the fries with poutine for a $ 1.50 extra.
The Philly cheesesteak was odd. It tasted as though it was marinated in soy or something. If you’re hoping to dig into a normal cheesesteak, well then this is not the place.
The BLT however wasn’t too bad. But then again, it’s hard to mess up a BLT. The lamb ‘bacon’ was thick but a little chewy. However I enjoyed it a lot, the lamb taste was prominent.
The fries was so-​so. But the poutine is again, odd.
All in all, if you’re looking for a halal restaurant that don’t serve your typical shawarma or Indian food, do give this place a try.

I read a good review on Halal Foodie so I was excited to go with my friends. Let’s just say this was the absolute worst restaurant/​café we had ever been to (and we’ve been to some pretty sketchy places!) First, the atmosphere was not very good. Extremely dim lighting, and cold. Made the place seem really cheap and run down — and not exactly welcoming for a café. We sat and waited a good 20 minutes before we had to actually get up and ask the man if we could order. This was surprising to us, considering we were one of two tables in the entire place.
Once ordered, the wait was about average before we got our food. We got everything all at once, rather than the appetizers first — then the meals. Infact, they actually forgot one of our appetizers, which resulted in them giving it to us at the end for take out on the house. The drinks were the only good thing that we had there — even if one of the drinks had a fruit fly in it. This says a lot already. The rest of the food tasted like vomit… extremely salty vomit.
Overall, this is an over priced restaurant with extremely small portion sizes and not very good service. They could never compete with Affy’s, literally steps away. If you’d like a good overpriced latte, this could be your place. Otherwise, forget it’s there and find somewhere else to go.