Arkady Bistro is located near the south east intersection of Burnhamthrope and Dixie in Mississauga just one light south of Burnhamthorpe.
Arkady is a cafeteria style place that serves mostly eastern European style dishes and also has dessert and coffee. While there are specials daily such as pierogies, Hungarian pancake etc there are also mainstay dishes like pork ribs, schnitzel (pork and chicken), fish and so on. Dinner plates are typically large servings with a wide variety of sides and salads to choose from.
So far I've been twice so far and I've been able to try the chicken schnitzel as well as the fish and on Fridays they have pierogies as a main as well. For sides while they have dumplings and potatoes they also have sauerkraut and other hot sides but on the right side of the counter they have a choice of colder sides and salads such as cole slaw, cucumbers and beet salad.
While there are some other reviewers here saying it's not made to order and that food is kept warm in heating trays, new food is brought out often and in the few times I've been they've having to bring out new trays from the back because they sell quickly. The turn around on the food is quick when it sells quickly of course. While I didn't want to wait 10 minutes for pork schnitzel to be made fresh, I had the option to wait. My brother had ordered pierogies and he had to come back to the counter when they brought them out.
Basically when it's dinner time on a Friday, the food is not sitting around for a long time. Both the fish and chicken schnitzel I've had, the coating was crisp (freshly fried). I like the choices of food at Arkady and even though it's cafeteria style the food is definitely fresh. Between new trays being cycled out and the hot food being hot, the cool side is cool. The salads/veggies are crispy/crunchy and the quality if good.
Seating can be a challenge here. The place can get pretty busy. They don't really have tables for groups, maybe 4 max with a few doubles scattered. There's a stand up ledge just outside where I've seen patrons drink coffee and smoke. This place seems to also be a hang out as well as a place to grab a decent sized plate of food.
They only take debit or cash.