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| - Oh Me Va Me, I love you...I can tell that others do too because dinner lineups are longer than before and I am no longer the only non-Jewish person there!
I just got back from a big-ass late lunch at Me Va Me with a few buds and boy am I stuffed!! I am writing this now to prevent myself from having to take a nap on a full stomach! I do this to myself all the time... MVM is one of those places that gets it right each and every time. The place is big and bright, clean, service is always speedy and uber-friendly, and the food is pretty damn good, fresh, and plentiful. I've been going there for years and everyone I've ever brought there LOVEs it. It's one of my many go-to places for some good ol' kosher food in massive portions (almost everyone who walks out of there does so carrying a take-out bag, including Jeanne Beker!) at excellent prices.
Along with your order, you get a wire basket of bread which they make on the premises. They used to serve thick pitas (white and whole wheat) with a small tray of kosher pickles and peperoncino (those little bright green-ish/yellow-y peppers that are kind of spicy but moreso bitter from the vinegar) but in recent months they've been serving up laffa (it's either or, depending on which bread guy is working) which is a welcome change. Their laffas are almost like naan when they're dough-y but today they were a little more thin and crispy. Either way, we loved it.
We ordered an array of apps and dips which were decent but I am not a fan of their hummus. I find there's a bit too much tahini and it's kind of watery compared to thicker versions such as the kind you might get at Paramount or other places, but it's fine--everyone else enjoyed it. We all got various platters which come with a side and their house salad (you can upgrade to Caesar, Greek, or Israeli for an extra dollar), which, if you've never had it, TRY IT! It's made up of mixed greens, none of this lettuce and no spinach...sliced red onions, grated carrots and long, julienned ribbons of pickled beets which give the salad a nice colour and flavour along with their dressing. Their house salad is no regular salad, folks. I have male friends who HATE salad but they'll gobble theirs up at MVM, it's that good!
Most of us got the chicken breast skewers, one got the lamb, another had the tenderloin, while I got the basa Florentine (think eggs Florentine with fish). I often get the chicken breast which is very juicy for breast meat. I have not tried the lamb but I am told it is very good. Their beef option is a tenderloin cut which I am pretty sure used to be filet mignon, but anyway the tenderloin is my least favourite item on their menu. All their meat platters come with red onion piled on, and a red ketchup-y sauce--they used to serve tzatziki instead which I wish they would bring back! My fish dish hit the spot, and then some: two big pieces of basa with spinach and cheese. You might order this thinking it's a light dish but it's not. I don't think you can have a llght meal at MVM if you don't lay off the bread, dips, and salad which is kind of hard to do. The sides are all really good: fries are battered and crisp, roasted potatoes are perfectly seasoned and seem more fried than roasted which makes them even more tasty; mashed is also perfect, even their steamed vegetables are deelish (and not boiled, which some places do even though the menu says 'steamed'). The only one I never get is the rice because it's just plain, white rice and doesn't seem very fun. I would've thought they'd serve a pilaf since it's a kosher place but nope.
Their serving plates are unecessarily big so you can end up with very little table space if you order a bunch of stuff, which I shan't steer you from doing as everything on their menu (a loooong list of options) that I've had is delicious (seabass was so-so the time I had it--overcooked and dry)! They offer mostly Mediterranean (kebabs, shawarma, the usual dips, etc.) but also have European dishes such as schnitzel which was alright. You can't go wrong with this place. Dinner time can mean a bit of a wait but it moves along at a fair pace and it's well worth it. In the warmer months, they open up the patio so there's more seating but still it can get quite busy. They have other locations, and also do take-out at their Express resto but I've only ever been to this one at the NW corner of Steeles and Bathurst.
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