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| - Restaurant: Paramount Fine Foods
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Location: Downtown Toronto
Address: 253 Yonge St
Price Range: $10-15
1: Poor
2: OK
3: Good
4: Very Good
5: Excellent
Food: 3
Service: 1
Ambiance: 1
Overall: 2
Paramount Fine Foods is in heart of Dundas Square. I've passed by this place so many times and it was busy all the time so I decided to check it out. There are seats by the front that's like outside seating. If you like people staring at you while you eat, there is always that option. They serve Appetizers, Sandwiches and Meat Plates.
There were so many different types of dessert but I had no idea what they were. If you didn't catch on yet, I am a newbie with Middle Eastern Food.
They have this Take-Out display window when you first walk into the restaurant that totally caught me off guard. I wasn't sure if we had to wait for someone to seat us or we just had to line up and get our food and sit down like a foodcourt.
Ordered: HUMMUS ($4.99) The Complimentary bread went very well with the Hummus, the hummus comes in this to-go plastic bowl so I am assuming it's easier for people to take home when you don't finish it. Which is most likely the case cause it was huge! The hummus itself had very mild flavor and wasn't too garlicky with a drizzle of olive oil on top.
Ordered: CHICKEN SHAWARMA ($10.99) This is a really big dish. It come with a giant bread on the bottom topped with grilled chicken pieces, rice, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and this yogurt sauce. You are suppose to rip the bread into small pieces and wrap some of the rice and chicken and eat it. This was like the Beef Shawarma Sandwich but opened up. I thought it was just ok, nothing special. Chicken pieces didn't have much flavor and the pickle/tomato pieces were warm..don't know if it was suppose to be like that?
Ordered: BEEF SHAWARMA SANDWICH ($5.99) This is all the beef, lettuce, pickles and white yogurt sauce wrapped in a bread. For the price, it's a decent size and had lots of beef in it. To be honest I think it could have more seasoning (no idea what though) cause it was too bland for me.
So I feel like I can't really tell if it's good/bad Middle Eastern food because I haven't had it very often and don't know much about it. But personally, I didn't really enjoy anything from this restaurant. Maybe I am too used to Beef/Chicken Shawarma I usually pick up from small vendors that are heavily seasoned and sauced. But hey, that's what I enjoy.
Even if I really enjoyed the food, their service completely turned me off from ever visiting this restaurant in the future. Yes, it is a very busy restaurant- but mid way through my meal, I ordered a diet coke. It never comes so I ask again (different person), wait 10 more minute? nothing!! In total I think I asked about 4 times for a damn can of Diet coke and they couldn't deliver. By the time we got our bill, one of them finally tried to give us the stupid diet coke which I didn't even want anymore. AND they gave us the wrong bill which was like $60 when our original bill was $25'ish.
Summary: This is not a place to enjoy a relaxing meal, the tables are crowded and the service is slow. The atmosphere and the service is not worth the tip you have to squeeze out at the end of the meal. If you crave shawarma, I recommend you go to some smaller joint around the corner and it will taste exactly the same (maybe even better)
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