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If you like feta, then you're gonna love Messini. In my opinion, this is one of the best restaurants if you're looking for good value.
Naturally being located in the centre of Greektown, they have a pretty standard greek menu.
Messini offers a dinner option that is called a combo dinner. It includes a pita with an olive paste, a greek salad, a plate of fries and two entrees that you can choose from a list including souvlaki, gyro, and some other filler items. If you pay an additional $2, you can upsize your fries to greek fries, and that may very well be the best $2 you ever spend in your life. The greek fries here are to die for and the one thing that bothers me about Toronto is that this is the only place that i know that serves this simple yet stellar dish. I know Alexandria's has greek fries but after having had them from here, mentioning any other place for greek fries almost becomes blasphemous!
The gyros are gyros...i think the chicken and lamb are both wonderful...n yeah, they got fries in em too which most people seem to be raving about. I personally think both the chicken and lamb gyros are good especially as part of the combo...but its still not what i go there for (im a shawarma guy...gyros are good, but not even in the same league as a good shawarma in my opinion).
If you got two people, i think the combo is the most perfect sit-down dinner for two under $20 that you can get in downtown toronto. Nice ambience, 4 course meal, and pretty good service as well.
The last time i was at Messini, there were five of us meaning we could only get two combos and the fifth person was to be the odd one out ordering straight off the menu. So i experimented by getting a plate of greek fries to myself as well as a plate of gyro meat...PHENOMENAL! I personally enjoyed that meal more then the standard combo, but for first timers wanting the full experience, i recommend starting with the combo, and then graduating onto the greek fry fanatic with greek fries and a side of your favorate gyro meat on the side (about $10 for both items).
Enjoy your experience and watch out for rush hour because exceptional food at cheap prices will often result in LONG line-ups during the peak timings.
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