Sofra Istanbul

Great place for lunch or a quick dinner. Great menu selections, what makes this place a little more unique they do catering and a larger selection of different fish dishes. The service was good we even got Turkish tea after our meal ! The only down side is it has simple décor so if your looking to have a fancy meal its not the place to go.

Doner Kebabs! Although this place had a huge sign that advertised its doner kebabs, I decided to be a bit more adventurous. I ordered off the traditional Turkish menu and got dishes that you don’t normally see at a doner/​shwarma joint.
Iskender Kebab– This resembled a shwarma plate dinner with shaved meat. However, the tomato-​based sauce and the yogurt complemented the flavours of the meat. However, I wasn’t a big fan of the bread underneath the meat as it got soggy from the heat and sauces.
Adana Kebab– Two huge skewers of meat on rice. The seasoning of the meat was not overpowering and it was made fresh, which added to the tenderness of the meat.
Veggie Eggplant– Cold dish of egglant rolls with minced meats. This was mediocre.
Special/​mixed peta– Probably the best part of the meal. Fresh bread made in a traditional oven topped with minced beef, onions, feta, and lot more seasonings from Anatolia. I definitely recommend trying the peta here!
The food is overall above average as its price range. However, the décor and environment are a bit lacking, which reminded me more of a take-​out shawarma joint than a traditional Turkish restaurant. But hey, if you value the taste of the food above all else, check this place out!

Best middle eastern food in woodbridge! Simply the best largest shawarma wraps only downside is limited seating and service needs a lot more improvement.

I used to go there prices were OK considered it is more of a cafeteria than a restaurant, no atmosphere, no music, no decorations. Just sit on kitchen table and eat. Do not try to buy shish kebob since the meat is hard and chewy difficult to swallow, do not even try to buy shawarma beef or chicken it tastes nothing just mixtures of salad and hard meat on top. The portions becomes smaller and prices are high compared to a school cafeteria food.

first and only time going to this restaurant i found plastic packing twine in my shawarma dinner. the food is average in terms of Torontos’ chicken shawarma dinner potential.

The best shawarma in town!
Great food and a very nice team. We go there at least twice a week. Always fresh!

great food, great salad and loved my steak.
nothing really more to say… great restaurant over all.

One of the best Turkish restaurants in gta! Highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys some traditional turkish home cooking or something off the grill. Their baklava is absolutely amazing and free tea :)

I have been to this place for the last 5 years and religiously order the Dorado fish which you can only get off the Mediterranean Sea. And I am never disappointed. I also like the pide and ayran, overall this place is amazing for food! And they have the best bread that is baked fresh in the oven that you can see and pairing it with the Hummus on the menu is the best! The ambience is nothing fancy– not a big deal!

I was very disappointed that I didn’t even get to finish my meal and also put it in a «to-​go» box (don’t want to waste food).
I followed the comments on Unilocal and decided to try here because I’m a Shwarma fanatic! Despite the expensive prices. I decided to get a chicken shwarma plate.
It came with a nice size of garden salad (much bigger than most other restaurants). Then came the main dish: JUST some chicken pieces and bland-​looking rice. This was already $ 15.
I wanted all the other stuff that goes well with it: salads, pickled radishes, onions, etc (not much selections) and that was an added $ 2.75.
Even with the extras. It was not even great. For that price, I could have gotten about 2 mouth-​watering plates elsewhere.
The falafels were good though!

Incredible, authentic Turkish food. One of the better meals i’ve had in recent memory. Well worth a visit.

Have had better Mediterranean food and customer service elsewhere!
Its right they do well but over years their quality of food and service has reduced significantly. They over charge you wherever they can — $ 5 for a piece of baklava or extra $ 16 bucks platter (excluding any garlic or hummus, you pay extra for that).
The waitress is rude and she does not care about the customers, she knows the place can do without one or two. I have received the same thing from few other friends who have tried it over last few years.
For the quality of food, customer service or ambiance, coupled with the price tag you pay, the place is not worth it.

Small local restaurant with delicious food. My favourite is the chicken shawarma wrap and garden salad. The chicken is so juicy and has lots of flavour while the dressing for their garden salad is to die for. I removed one star for their service, and cleanliness. Considering the times I went weren’t busy, the service by the waiters was slow and needs a bit of improvement. But overall I do enjoy dining here. Highly recommended.

We were looking for a place to eat before a movie and saw this place nearby. They were packing up the dining area but still open for take out. Customer service was great. The portions are huge and the food is delicious!

I love Sofra. I’ve eaten here several times and I always order the Cokertme Kebab — it is THAT good that I always want it. I have tasted their chicken as well and it had a unique basil-​flavour to it. It is a shame that the location and casual look of the restaurant shy it away from being a place where you can enjoy a nice dining experience, because the quality of their food would suit that kind of atmosphere. They are very clean, and service is always great. This is a restaurant I would love to see expand and grow, perhaps open other locations across the GTA.

My boyfriend had been talking about this restaurant for a few years now, and recently we were in the area and decided to drop by for a late lunch. It wasn’t very busy, and someone came to assist us right away. She was lovely.
We ordered a small baba ganoush (with bread) and iskender kebab to share. The baba ganoush was fairly generic, but pretty good. The iskender kebab was a) huge b) nothing like I’ve ever had before and c) delicious! It’s basically shaved beef with a tomato sauce over Turkish bread. It’s a medley of flavours and textures and it’s balanced nicely with the yogurt and grilled jalapeño on the side.
Oh and the side salad was really good too! I’m typically not a fan of random house salads, but their dressing is really nice and balanced.
One thing: The dining area could be a tad bit cleaner. This is not a place you go for ambiance and 5-​star-​service — you come here for the food and I’d say it’s pretty authentic and delicious. There are a lot of options, and I’d definitely go back to try more items on their menu.

Sorry but all of these positive reviews are nowhere near justified. Must be written by friends and family…
My fiancé was happy with his chicken shwarma sandwich (aka pita wrap) for $ 8ish. I had a chicken shwarma dinner for $ 14 something. For that price it was pretty much the same dish in a different form, where instead of his pita I had rice but paid $ 6 more. It definitely lacked sauce and was nothing to write home about.
Food was overall 6.5÷10. Not bad, but I could get better value in this ghetto neighbourhood I call my home.
Less impressive was the service!!! Insert angry face.
To preface this story there was only 1 other table of 4 ladies finishing their meal at the time of our visit, and we are a table of 2.
First time, I asked for garlic sauce and it took about 5 minutes. Doesn’t seem like a long time but our server was literally standing next to our table doing absolutely nothing the entire time. I wasn’t eating, waiting for that sauce to go with my lack luster meal, so the wait was annoying as hell. Literally… She stood next to us hovering, and was NOT busy! Just didn’t have the time of day to bother getting me my sauce. I thought maybe she forgot. But at her leisure many minutes later she managed to non chalantly fetch my sauce.
Midway into digging in, I decided said lack luster meal would benefit from a side of coleslaw, even with its $ 5 price tag. I asked another server (because ours was gone for some time, maybe on break) and he himself had been standing around doing nothing… He said just a minute… And came back a 2^nd time telling me to hold on. I figured maybe he had to wait for my sever to get back from break and that he had no authority to put the order in himself? I waited patiently…
10min later she comes back. Minutes after her return, I could tell she had no clue of my request. The guy never bothered to tell her even though he hadn’t done anything in the last 15 min — I knew that guy couldn’t be trusted!!! So I ordered the coleslaw again from her, to which she seemed baffled like she never heard the word (though it is a dish on the menu) and then finally understood and put the order through.
I mean… maybe 15 minutes for a side of coleslaw doesn’t seem sooo bad. But when it’s $ 5 for a tiny plate, which I needed because of my already disappointing meal… and on top of that the servers seem lazy like they don’t have a care in the world? Eughhhhh!
I won’t be back. Service is a ²⁄₁₀ (maybe 1.5). Not just for slowness which I’d understand if they were busy, but for not giving two fu*ks to move their as* to give even half decent service!
This review should overall be a 1 or a 2 but I’m trying not to be bitter.
P. S. If your business model is to have sh*t service, just have patrons order from the cashier and sit down until their food is ready for pick up! Good Lord!

The food is delicious, Its my third time here. You may think the the price is bit high for a restaurant in this location but the portion is very generous. I was with my friends and all liked the food. The staff was patient enough to answer our questions and recommend the food to us. We tried falafel (perfectly fried), Babaganoush (just amazing), kebabs.
I did not like their tabbouleh salad, but their Shawarma wraps are very tasty, one of the best I have tried.

I got a Chicken&beef shawarma & it was amazingggg. My first impression when I walked in was terrible, it was over crowded and didn’t look good at all. BUT I would go back for sure, they LOAD your shawarma up with meat & the sauces are amazing. I eat shawarma on a regular basis & this would definitely be on my top 5 places now!

The cafeteria-​like interior doesn’t reflect the delicious pide. I can’t rate on anything else except the pide, because I’ve gone back and always order that.
I will note, have gone back with different people, and everyone (⁵⁄₅) people have been blown away by the various pide (pizza-​ish) dishes.
Not sure why people note the food is overpriced, it isn’t. A pide is about $ 12, and it is bigger than a small pizza, plus you get a delicious salad.
Favorite place in this neck of the woods.