Feta and Olives

Wholly decent Mediterranean franchise place that I frequented because I worked right across the street and because I didn’t have a lot of other options in the area until a food court opened up two minutes away. Pretty typical stuff that you’d expect at one of these places (falafel, shawarma, souvlaki, gyros, etc.) as well as a Yogen Fruz for some reason. I’m not big on frogurt so I never sampled that, but can speak toward the falafels.
The sandwiches are made fresh (falafels cooked on the spot) so it is a step above a sandwich shop that just reheats the things but it lacks the flavour of most authentic, smaller places or even a Villa Madina. Tasty enough with nice, fresh ingredients just not fantastic and sort of neutral tasting really. Like Lebanese food for people who aren’t sure if they like Lebanese food. Also I really never cared for the pitas that they used to wrap the things in. They’re a little on the fluffy /​doughy side and aren’t the most conducive in actually creating a wrap, so unless you’re quite careful, you may have a mess on your hands.
The sides are all actually quite good (nice choice of potatoes, rice, tabbouleh, salad, noodles, etc.) but again sort of on the bland side when compared with your more authentic middle-​eastern places. Again not at all bad, just not amazing. Be prepared to add hot sauce to your noodles and tzatziki to your rice and potatoes.
So it’s a nice enough place if you work in the area and I was also quite happy to support them while I was working nearby. The owner is a great guy and the type of small business owner that you want to see do well. But it’s also a place that I never felt comfortable writing a review for until I no longer worked across the street, on the off chance he reads this. I wanted to give him four stars based on the excellent service but I just couldn’t bump it up from a solid three. Still, do check it out if you’re in the area… I just don’t think I’d make a special trip.

OK at best.
Chicken pita with everything. Chicken was really dry. Tender and steaming from the heater but dry. I don’t know how that’s possible. It was like the chicken was old or something before they cooked it. Tsziki was bland and almost watery.
It wasn’t terrible. Just not very good, even by regular Shwarma /​pita places.

I discovered this restaurant through a Groupon offer that I thought was a pretty good deal ($ 6 for $ 12 worth of food) so my friend and I decided to split the Groupon and try the restaurant out.
This restaurant is located on Yonge Street in the Harbourfront area (Pinnacle Centre condos — just south of Lakeshore/​Gardiner Expressway). A short walk from Union Station, this Greek food eatery is not hard to find at all. This location also serves Yogenfruz frozen yogurt but note that the Groupon is only valid for the wraps/​salads and nothing else so it is best to share the voucher with a friend… unless you are really hungry.
When we got to the place, there was a bit of a lineup with only one person working both the cash and the food. For this reason, we experienced slow service and we had to wait a few minutes to even get our orders in which is kind of disappointing considering the restaurant is in a hot tourist area and I would have expected a bit more staff members on deck. Nonetheless, we were eventually served and the lady was friendly enough.
My friend ordered the chicken souvlaki pita while I ordered the gyros pita with donair sauce. The meat was OK — a little dry, and it could have been spiced and seasoned a little bit more and the size of the wrap was average, albeit a little expensive for $ 7.00. The donair sauce was not very good at all. It had a jelly-​like consistency which did not look appetizing at all nor did it taste good. It was sweet but I found it lacked in the garlic department… and I really just could not get over the gelatinous texture of it. From my past experience, I’ve always thought donair sauce was supposed to be creamy and smooth… not weird jelly. I ended up eating only half of the gyros wrap because it really wasn’t that good. My friend said she wasn’t really satisfied with her chicken souvlaki either. They used a lot of the fatty parts of the chicken which made it an unpleasurable chewing experience and the tzatziki sauce was also just OK in flavour but a little on the watery side.
Overall, I wasn’t really a fan of this place. The service was slow and the food was not that good. I don’t think the wraps are worth $ 7 each so I am glad we got a Groupon to cut the cost in half. If they add more staff to support the summer tourist season as well as make changes to their products (ie. tweak their sauces, add a little more flavour to the meat, maybe use a different part of the chicken for the pitas, etc) then the customer experience may be more satisfactory in the future.

The people here are really nice and it’s cool that they have Mediterranean food plus a Yogen Fruz with yummy flavours (cheesecake, green tea, etc.). But the food was really sub-​par, even with low fast-​food standards. I had the falafel dinner plate and the falafel were like grenades. They were too hard for my plastic knife to handle, and really dry on the inside as Ada T. mentioned… You get a choice of 2 sides, which are pretty bland (rice, green salad, potatoes, chickpea salad). It’s not even that cheap… I would pick a Mom & Pop falafel place over this chain any day.

Fast food greek food. Don’t expect too much. It’s your typical fast food chain that sells souvlakis gyros and falafals. The falafals was not fresh and was a little drier than normal. The side salads had no taste. The souvlaki was standard — nothing special.