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Everyone who frequents the Danforth knows about Astoria. It's a decent place but if you ask the locals, you can do better
Pros:
Large place with ample seating
Lamb souvlaki was very good
Cons:
Prices don't reflect quality
Air con is very weak at best
Not a place for a quick dinner
Came by here last Sunday after my soccer game. Even though we were a party of 12, we were seated rather quickly. Even though this place is right on the Danforth, it's huge. There's a ton of seats and only during the Taste of the Danforth will you find it hard to get seating. We were seated in the back where there's a little sunroof. This is a good and bad thing as I will explain later on.
I ordered a Lamb souvlaki dinner and my GF had the chicken souvlaki dinner. Dinners come in small and large (you get more meat with large) and come with a greek salad and two sides. You can choose between fries, potatoes and rice. The Greek salad comes on a pretty big plate. It's a pretty large salad considering it comes with the dinner. The souvlaki was hit or miss. My lamb was very good. It was medium rare goodness save for the end pieces which were closer to medium but that's fine and part of the cooking process really. Still one of the better lamb I've had. My GF's chicken was a little on the dry side. Our little one usually loves chicken but she had a hard time chewing through some of the pieces. The rice and potatoes were average at best.
Here's the thing about this place, it pretty much runs on people knowing it's name. When you think Danforth, you think Astoria. However, the experience just doesn't match up to the popularity and hype. When you're seated in the the back, there's a sunroof that basically blinds anyone during a sunny day who's seated underneath it. Half our table had to shade our eyes constantly because of it. They need to cover it up during a sunny day because it's not comfortable to eat like that. Also, the air con is almost non existent. It was a very hot day when we went and we were sweating buckets inside. Again, not a comfortable feeling when eating.
Dinner for 2 here will run you about $60 if you don't get a drink. Adding drinks will run you closer to $80-100 dollars. Is it worth it? I'm siding more with no. The souvlaki is OK, but everything is just average and when you're paying that much, it just doesn't feel right. I work with people from Greece and they tell me there are much better options than Astoria. You just have to do your research.
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