Megas Restaurant

My family and I came here on a Tuesday night after my sister’s choir service at St. Paul’s. We were given a table quickly and the service was polite. The service was snappy and fast, and the atmosphere was relaxing and cultured. Food was great as always!

Very disappointing.
Ordered delivery and items were missing. Those that were included were mediocre at best, meat was overly oily and rice was bland. The order had bread which was literally just thrown in to the delivery bag in slices – not wrapped in anything.

Holy Crap, what’s with the bad reviews? I can’t believe that this is the same place we ate dinner at last night!
We came around 5 pm ans sat on the patio. We had several servers come and ask if we were ready to order, but we weren’t. We wanted fried calamari and also some hot apps, but the Hot Platter for 2 only had the grilled calamari. Our server was nice enough to substitute the fried calamari for us at no extra charge.
I had a glass of nice refreshing Greek white that hit the spot. The Greek Salad we had was super fresh and crunchy with a perfect dressing and just the right amount of feta.
The platter had 2 dolomades, that were very good and had a nice mint flavour behind the grape leaf. The house made sausage had loads of lemon zest in it and was exceptionally flavourful. Spanakopita was flaky, buttery and delicious and the octopus was nice, too. I have to say that the calamari was not as tender as I would have expected, but it wasn’t terrible. They also brought us some delicious hummus that was made with fresh chickpeas. They also brought a nice helping of yummy tatziki on a plate.
The service was exceptional and we rarely waited for anything we needed. Our server asked my boyfriend if he wanted another diet coke, she cleared our cutlery from the greek salad and replaced it when our platter came.
Maybe it was a fluke, but we had an absolutely great little nosh and I’d come back again anytime.

Loved the apps, reasonable pricing, and lively environment.
Great food, service, and absolutely AMAZING live performance made mine and the girlfriend’s night. The female lead singer had an incredible voice and created a lovely evening for me and my girlfriend. IT was the whole package.

Had dinner with a friend — we came in around 7ish and the place was dead. It picked up a little but maybe 5 more tables. I had the gyros dinner and it came with salad. Ok, the food wasn’t bad in my opinion but there were parts of the meals that were misses. The potato was hard and you get this mini plastic cup of tzatziki sauce. The bread we got at the beginning seemed stale (all in crumbles and broken up). I’d recommend another place for greek food in the area.
Food: 2/​5, not very good.
Service: 2/​5, despite having almost no customers, not much attention.
Ambience: 3/​5, cool paintings and a lot of seat selection
Price: 2/​5, not great for what you get.

3.5 stars is closer to accurate I think.
We bought a voucher, and after reading all the negative reviews, I was terrified. We actually put off going as we were worried we’d be disappointed. I was ready for a fight too, as per the previous voucher users experience.
BUT much to my delight — everything was great! Service was good, food was good, and there was absolutely no problem with my bill.
The portions were large, so much so that we took home a doggie bag.
What we ordered/​received with voucher:
— 2 salads
— 2 dips — Tzatziki and Scordalia (liked the Tzatiziki better than Scordalia)
— Spanakopita
— Pork Tenderloin Souvlaki
— Chicken Souvlaki
— White wine — it was light in flavour, but drinkable
— dessert — not sure what it was as it was just brought out to us — it was ok, a dense custard type cake with a sweet clear sauce on top. Would have picked something else if we had an option.
Was the meal perfect? Maybe not. I wished we could have swapped the bread/​butter on the table for more pita bread for the dips as there wasn’t enough for the amount of dip. And the rice was bland. But everything was pretty good.
Perhaps they had a steep learning curve with the vouchers, but my experience didn’t reflect most of the others at all. I have to say thank you to the girl who posted the positive voucher experience just before we went, as it gave me hope to try it!
Bottom line –For the price we paid with the voucher, it was well worth the price.
Would I go again? Probably at some point.
We just moved to the area and there’s a lot to try.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!
Place wasn’t even busy and we had to wait 10 minutes for a table of two.
The service is terrible. Our food came out cold, we had to remind the server to bring us bread and we had to ask them for salad (which was part of the meal) it was brought after the mains… my mid rare lamb was well and the salads were rotting, too bad Astoria was closed today otherwise I would have gone there

Can I just start with — what a horrible experience this was.
We only ended up here because Astoria was closed today. We debated between here and another patio and what a mistake choosing this place.
There was a line almost out the door, and the restaurant was basically empty. You could see servers just sitting around doing absolutely nothing. It took 10 minutes before we got a seat on the patio.
Another mistake we made, sitting on the practically neglected patio. Our server (Kosta) was not very friendly and barely came to our table.
I must have asked 3 times for more hot water for my tea, and never got it.
We ordered
— Feta appetizer
— lamb and chicken souvlaki
We got our appetizer but had no plates and no cutlery on our table. we had to ask for it. We also had to ask them to bring bread to our table.
Mains came out pretty quickly. Mine was undercooked, cold to the touch and I had to send it back to the kitchen.
Our mains were missing salad, so had to ask for that too. Salad had leaves that were rotten, and old.
Never saw the waiter again after that.
Asked a different server for the bill which is when we saw our waiter again.
Honestly, did not feel that he deserved a tip. Did not even feel that we should have been charged for our meal after this experience.
As we were leaving, he was yelling at us over the patio with sarcasm as to «how good the tip was and he can’t wait to see us again» — while he was tending to another table.
Real professional.
Had a horrible experience and will never return. I’d rather eat greek food at the mall.

Ok what just happened? I just drove all the way from Oakville to Danforth for this? Whatever you do, don’t order chicken souvlaki at this place EVER! It was bone dry that got stuck in my chest on its way down! I could have got that at our local mr Greek didn’t need to drive up to danforth for that! Holly sh
They just re heated some left over chicken and gave it to me! That’s not authentic Greek food! The only star I gave was for the service not the food! Food gets nothing I’m never going back there!

I came here with the man in my life (at the moment) because it was recommended to me by someone who worked in the kitchen 10 years ago… he had the beef gyro and I had the stuffed chicken. We went around 6 pm on a Friday night and the place was empty…
Usually that’s when I turn around and leave. I find that if a place isn’t busy then there is a reason …
We didn’t wait long for our food and it made sense why… The meat was so hard he couldn’t eat it… It snapped in half: it felt like it was the previous days food. The vegetables were over cooked and extremely salty. I couldn’t even eat them. The chicken was okay but I feel like I could have made it at home and it would have tasted better. We didn’t send the food back because I didn’t want any surprises. It’s a bad idea to negatively send your food away and not be able to see it…
I won’t come back here but I can say I tried it… Go to messini down the street on the south side of danforth… It’s amazing authentic Greek food and the meat won’t snap when you bite it.

We ordered Megas take-​out from Just-​Eat!
It was just the ticket.
My hubby had the Salmon dinner and I had the Gyros dinner.
It came really fast — earlier than promised.
Very generous portions — the salmon was fantastic and the gyros was plentiful — in fact enough for two meals.
Came with homemade bread and Greek salad.
I totally recommend! Don’t ever be afraid to order from these guys!
Great value for the money too!

Went recently as part of a group for a baptism. The environment was nice and the place was packed. Service was very slow, so the staff tried to compensate by continuously bringing bread baskets… most guest ended up filling up on bread. Their dips were average, the salad was well dressed, but their moussaka was on the bland side.

I had a voucher for this restaurant which had expired (it was a short window and I didn’t realize you weren’t allowed to use it Saturdays!). I called to ask if they would honour it because it was less than a week expired. The man who answered the phone was EXTREMELY rude and said if it was expired it was worth nothing. I argued that it should be worth at least what was paid and he told me to call back.
Upon calling back, I spoke with the manager who was a little more pleasant and said I could use it for its value.
I ordered the house red wine, which was quite good for a house wine, albeit not Greek. Bread was dropped off and it was plentiful. We ordered the calarmari to start, but it was tough and under seasoned. Our mains arrived on HUGE plates (the stuffed chicken and lamb/​feta pie) and although they lacked presentation, we were both happy and the portions were huge (I ate half and I can eat a lot!). We were going to pass up on dessert but our server talked us into it. He brought out a big plate of home made apple pie (rivaling my Granny’s), baklava and ice cream, which he had plated himself and charged only for one slice of pie :)
Obviously, we LOVED our server and the food was good. Despite having our regular spots on the Danforth, we will be back!

I went to Megas a few years ago and had a good, tasty experience but recently back for my birthday with a large group of people and was very disappointed with not only the food, but the service as well.
The only thing I enjoyed about the food was the salad — let’s face it, you can’t go wrong with salad! I ordered a moussaka meal for the first time after hearing what a delicious Greek food it was… ew! After one bite I was immediately turned off! I asked other family members to taste it as well and I wasn’t the only one who thought it tasted nasty. The potatoes tasted like it originally came in a powder form and when I asked the servers if I could exchange the moussaka for regular roasted potatoes, I had to basically talk them into giving me what I asked for. They tried to convince me that the potatoes used in the moussaka was the same roasted potatoes they used in all their other dishes but you could tell it wasn’t. Other family members weren’t satisfied with their ordered dishes either. My group had a lot of complaints of their rice tasting and smelling a few days old, maybe a bit spoiled. No one wanted to say anything because of the hassle the servers made about the whole moussaka mishap.
As it was time for the bill, our table was told that we couldn’t get separate bills because it was too large of a group, although we had asked before we ordered! Our server put one huge bill (of 17 people!) altogether. We had to sort our bill of who was paying for what, which took almost 30 minutes because we also weren’t allowed to do separate payments. Basically, one person had to pay a bill for 17 people and then we all had to transfer that person money after which was a complete unnecessary hassle.
I would’ve given 1 star but I gave 2 because they brought out my birthday cake from their fridge and plates to serve them on.
Very disappointing because a few years ago I thought their food was amazing. Now? Not at all. Wouldn’t go to Megas again, nor would I recommend it. There are other amazing Greek restaurants on the Danforth that I will try moussaka from one day lol.

Great dinner. Fast service. Spanikopita was really good. Would be a 5 if the server had a personality.

We had lunch at Megas, including a Greek Salad that was fresh with big chunks of feta cheese. I like that. Then between us we shared the calamari, it was served hot and was a big portion.
Thats all we had so no entrée reviews yet. But the chef came out and said hello, he is a big man, very friendly and Greek of course.
I will definitely come back for a dinner visit.

I guess I should have minded the Unilocal reviews for this place… :(
I was in love with their food a couple of years go when I was starving, and I always had this amazing image of chicken souvlaki in my head, but today’s souvlaki was very dry, overly salty, and just a mess.
They get a bonus star for being very very nice to me!

Got a groupon-​type deal for a prix-​fixe meal here — big mistake.
The food served was absolutely terrible in terms of value and quantity — the «three appetizer platter» was actually a tiny spoonful each of what appeared to be store-​bought dips, the greek salad had iceberg lettuce (?!?) and canned olives, and the chicken was dry and served on plain rice that strongly resembled Minute Maid.
To make matters worse, when we questioned the waiter about the wine being served — advertised as a $ 30 bottle, actually homemade house wine that was both undrinkable, and advertised on the menu as being half that cost — the manager came over and started arguing with my mother, accusing her of having poor taste.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, he then personally served us a bill that included a mandatory 25% tip (for a party of two!) as well as taxes charged on the FULL «value» of the meal — not only ridiculous at $ 120, but actually illegal since taxes can only be charged on the price paid ie $ 60 for the coupon.
Oh and the décor was both creepy and amateur… imagine your kids painting a Greek garden scene.
Never again. If the purpose of such a promotion is to draw new customers, they certainly failed by trying to make it a cash cow — while serving garbage in an incredibly rude and arrogant manner.
Avoid. Not that you’d be hard pressed to find other better choices within steps on the Danforth…

Why are we at Megas Restaurant when fellow Unilocalers rating this place a 1 to 2 stars?
Why we didn’t check the reviews on Unilocal before sitting down?
Why a fanatic Unilocaler and mega planner like me will make a mistake like this?
Anyway, as I thought I would be yelled by some rude Greek waiter and have food and drinks poured on me… but nothing like that happen…
The Patio is OK, the space a little cramped but has the full view of Danforth great for people watching.
I cannot comment on the food… but the Mythos served in a frosted mug really hit the spot on a hot summer day. And I got that real fast. no waiting… and the bill came real fast too.
At least I have an A-​OK experience… I wouldn’t mind coming for a drink or too. but I might just skip on the food!

You know when you have a craving for food, oh, say, like Greek? Where else do you head except for greek town. right? Without an ipod Unilocal application to guide me, this was my solution. As a newbie to the city it seemed the most logical course of action.
I love Greek so I went to the first one I came across after getting off the smelly, humid subway. I must say, I was so disappointed. My friend, James said you should have gone to the one across the street. I wondered about that after I sat down.
To me, Roast lamb is the measure of a good greek meal. The lamb was slightly overcooked. Other parts were tender but the tough sections sure ruined my meal. I’m so used to inhaling my Greek food so this was a new experience.
Roast lamb came with lemon potatoes, carrots and broccoli with greek salad. Portion wise it was a sizeable meal. You will be full and no doubt even Gene from the band KISS would be. There’s an awesome photo of him as a patron on the wall of fame near the washrooms.
My friend ordered the Horitaki Salad: feta, onions, tomatoes etc in a red wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. Incredible! I couldn’t eat my salad in comparison to hers. Yeah, I ate hers then she took pity on my sad salad and just gave me some of hers.
As much as I loved her salad, it’s not enough to make me return. The odd quirk about her salad dish was that as good and as crisp tasting the veggies were the tomatoes were warm in comparison to the wonderful crunch I got from everything else.