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| - When The Healthy Greek first showed up on the Queen West strip, I was like, psh. The owners moved out of the market at Queen and John to set up an establishment that was almost a carbon copy of Sandwich Box - custom salads, grilled sandwiches and soups. I remained faithful to my beloved Sandwich Box and turned a blind eye. For awhile.
As the story goes, Sandwich Box moved out of the Queen St Market and I was out of fancy salad options. So I gave The Healthy Greek a whirl and um, hi new favourite salad: spinach, feta, cucumber, peppers and quinoa with a real nice chicken souvlaki on top (sprinkled with lemon, of course). I'm not sure why I prefer their salads over Sandwich Box - maybe it's the souvlaki, maybe it's the house dressing - but this spot is my JAM. However, a satisfying salad will run me $10, and I'm pretty firmly anti-$10 lunch... so I don't go often.
Oh yeah - they've got chicken and rice and potatoes and shawarma and all kinds of greekish selections to make what looks to be a lovely lunch, but I've yet to stray from the salads so I can't assess the deliciousness of those items. I don't think you can build sandwiches any more, but you can get wraps. Oh, I DO know that the spanakopita is very good, from Athens Bakery if my brain is correct.
Some people I know find some staff members to be a little testy, but the salad lady is always very nice to me (we bonded over dried cranberries). I guess it all comes down to personal experience.
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