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| - This place is a food factory. You order, they cook, you move down the line and you pick up your food, you find a place to sit, you eat, you leave. This is a cafeteria style order, pay, pickup and self seat type of place.
While this place may seem like a constant machine of serving the public there is a bit of a charm that comes with a place that been around so long and has such a loyal customer base and the fact that this place doesn't have to be trendy, bend to any trend because they are masters of doing what they do.
With the ever increasing prices of food and general rise of costs in everything this place is your proverbial oasis and harbor in the storm. The problem with being as popular as this place can be what you will experience is fighting for parking, fighting for a place to sit but when all that falls into place what you will have is a LOT of food for a really reasonable price.
Meals here are enough to feed 2 normal hungry adults. I'm a big guy and if I was really hungry MAYBE I could finish a souvlaki meal but I highly doubt it. The servings here are borderline absurd. This place is probably the Greek/Canadian equivalent of "Claim Jumper" in the US that being serving sizes are pretty much on the family size side.
My brother paid for both meals and we ended up sharing a bit of each plate. To put it in eating terms we are self proclaimed "heavy hitters" when it comes to being able to eat a lot. I mean we pride ourselves in being the type of customers that all you can eat places treat as "the exception" and we often try to gauge what we eat at those types of establishments to be able to say, yeah, we made a "profit".
Besides the almost obscene amount of food you receive from Zet's the food itself is better than average. The burgers are OK. The fries taste good but I wish the batch we had received had less of the "crunchy bit, small bits, tiny pieces". I prefer long fries as opposed to tiny pieces. My brother had ordered the Zet's burger which is basically a double bacon cheese burger and it's pretty big. For 9 dollars before tax that's not much at all considering how much beef is and how much it costs to even go to McDonald's. The large fries that he ordered was 5 bucks. It's a pretty large plate of fries for 5 bucks. Basically for 13 plus tax his 2 plates barely fit on the tray he carried it on.
I had ordered the gyro plate which I assumed was going to be a rice, salad, potatoes and gyro meat on a single plate. I was wrong. It was one PLATTER of rice, Greek salad (maybe 6 or more olives, feta, onions, lettuce, tomatoes), what equates to a whole potato on one plate and then an entire OTHER plate for a gyro in a pita complete with tzatziki, tomatoes, etc. It was a HUGE meal for 14 bucks plus tax. The gyro was great tasting and their tzatziki went so well with it as I think it sort of needed the sauce as it was a lot of meat in that wrap that needed to be lubricated.
They have "help yourself" pitchers of water with red plastic glasses at the front counter as well as take out containers because you know, they expect you won't eat it all at the restaurant. The water is nice because that's all I wanted, not necessarily bottled and I didn't want pop.
They only take cash but for your convenience they have 2 ATMs at the right side of the counter. There is no place to bus your own platters and it seems they have a dedicated person to do that. The fight for tables is a real one. I had my red water I had put down at a table right by the pick up counter and by the time I had picked up some salt, pepper, and ketchup, extra napkins and returned some dude was putting his stuff down at the table. I politely mentioned I had my drink there already and he said he thought it was from before and politely left the table.
The bottom line is this place is hands down probably the best bang for the buck place I know of because the portion sizes for the cost could have you wondering how this place makes money... well they also serve steak but their souvlaki platters are dare I say, "epic".
Oh and for being able to eat here how does 24 hours sound? Just think how busy a place like this would be after the bars close...
You can see the Vista cargo terminal at Pearson from here as that's right across the street.
5* for value, 4* for everything else.
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