First time I went to Mamakas, my boyfriend and I were absolutely blown away by the food. It was the best Greek in Toronto thus far. We had 4 apps and the chicken and Market fish- a Porgy. Both divine and so, so we'll done.... As cheesy as it may sound I really felt this was cooked with love and pride by the chef. As well as two desserts we found absolutely fabulous.
The service on the other hand was pretty bad. Our server didn't initially approach us until about 15 minutes in. When she did it was quite rushed (it was busy, to be fair). Her menu knowledge was barely there and knowledge of the restaurants liquor was zero. We were super interested in a tequila and she went on telling us it was a tequila we knew. After our meal, we again, could not locate our missing server so we had to order our tequilas with the owner who told us that what we were ordering was absolutely wrong, and he was confused why we thought so.... Kinda funny.
The food was worth it though. So we made a reservation for a week from that day for 6 to bring our family to this wonderful resto.
We came back a week later to find the service was a bit better and friendlier (more existent) but the food was an absolute disappointment. Which was very upsetting at we dragged our family out, singing Mamaka's praises.
Our lamb chops came out before most of our apps and the rest trickled in the next 15 minutes. We ordered two orders of chicken that came 30 minutes later than everyone else's dishes. We were warned of the delay of food coming out (and were pretty easy). Once our chicken came it looked gorgeous but undercooked :( bad enough for either of us not to really touch it and when our server came over and saw the full dishes in front of us she offered to just pack it up.
I don't think we'll be returning because inconsistency is the worst.