Esquire Restaurant is a family run Greek restaurant located in a plaza on the southeast corner of Victoria Park Ave and Sheppard Ave East that has been serving the Scarborough area since 1981. Esquire Restaurant and Johnny's Hamburgers have been staples of that area for a long time. You wouldn't know it by looking at the current ethnic demographics but years back, upper Scarborough use to have a very large Greek community and from my understanding this use to be the go to place for Greek food in upper Scarborough.
I decided to drop in on a weekday around late afternoon to grab a late lunch and I decided on the chicken souvlaki dinner ($12.25 plus) which seemed to be their most popular item since I noticed everybody dining in eating it. You place your order and grab a seat and when your order is ready, you would grab your food from the front and bring it back to your table.
The chicken souvlaki dinner was reasonably priced ($12.25 plus tax) and the portions were very generous. The dinner came with rice, potatoes, a Greek salad, a skewer of chicken souvlaki and a few slices of toasted garlic bread. Everything was fresh and nicely done but the chicken while nicely seasoned and nicely charred was a tad on the dry side and lacked the tenderness and juiciness a great chicken souvlaki should taste like. It was okay but definitely not great like some of it's counterparts on the Danforth which are priced a few dollars higher but the quality is better overall.
The decor is really old school with paintings on the wall and the outer part of the restaurant is lined with tables and the inner part of the restaurant are lined with booths. The place was quite clean from what I could see.
It's hard to comment on service since there are no waitstaff and essentially you pay for your order at the cashier and when your order is ready, you pick it up from the front which results in less interaction than a full service restaurant.
Overall, it's not a bad choice for Greek food in upper Scarborough and if you're looking for a hearty meal at very reasonable prices than you should definitely check out Esquire Restaurant.