This is one of the restaurants I have been eating at for as long as I can remember. Established in the early 70s, the Eglinton Avenue West location has stood in exactly the same spot since its inception (along with Baskin Robbins) serving reliably tasty middle eastern fare. My favourite menu item is the whole sea bass deep fried with a light, garlic-y, richly seasoned crust served either with rice or fries (rice is a little salty but goes well with the fish). The meal comes with tahini, sauce, mixed pickles (beets, hot peppers, pickles) a delicious mixed green salad with mint and parsley and an ample serving of either regular or whole wheat pita bread (the best I've tasted in Toronto). Home-made hot sauce akin to a harissa paste is delicious and available on request. There isn't another dish like this in mid-town Toronto to my knowledge-certainly not for the price ($25.00 including tax). The hummus is also great as is the tabouleh and the babaganoush (though the latter has a particularly pungent eggplant flavour). Shish Kabob dinners are always very fresh and cooked exactly as ordered. The falafels are tasty but definitely not short on grease and salt-certainly a flavourful treat. Staff are efficient and responsible and the place is pretty much always busy-sometimes scarily so (last witnessed just before passover and over Easter Weekend). It seems however that the eat-in customers get the short end of the stick, pleasant enough as the restaurant is in terms of its ambience and wait staff. This place does HUGE take-out business with those in and out of the neighbourhood and has for decades.