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| - The cool thing about this particular restaurant is that the REAL Souvlaki George, the one who ran for mayor of Montreal, and the one who started the chain, works here. He is eccentric as fuck and can be pretty hilarious.
However, he can also be the biggest cock-blocker on the planet. My old roommate and I came here once with a couple of Korean girls and good old Souvlaki George came up to us making hilarious (but totally inappropriate) comments to them, asking them a million questions about if they were Japanese or not, and insisting that they really "feel" Montreal and let Montreal go inside of them. He put his arm around them, touched their shoulders, etc. All really funny stuff to me, but it made the girls really uncomfortable. I have seen him cock-block Concordia students on dates as well. It could be that he doesn't intentionally do this and that he's simply eccentric; however, if you're considering going on a date here for whatever reason, you have been warned.
The food is decent. The greek-style potatoes are great. The delivery service is terrible - I lived a 5 minute walk away from this place and it would routinely take them over an hour for us to get our food. If you want to eat at the restaurant, George will make a big show of sitting you down and giving you good service. However, the barely pubescent girl they hired as a waitress has the biggest fucking attitude problem I've ever encountered in the service industry. I don't know if she still works there, but she made me feel as if I was facing charges at the Nuremberg trial every time I went. Which is not a very good feeling. She constantly looked pissed and like she wanted to rip our heads off.
The one truly amazing thing about this restaurant though is that it is usually open till 5 AM - pretty much the only place in NDG open that late. Now that is impressive.
If you're a Concordia student at Loyola I can see this place being very tempting to frequent as there aren't that many restaurants close by in this area of NDG, but consider that shitty business practices don't deserve to be rewarded.
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