Sfinaki

Whenever I eat greek food, I have to be super hungry in order for it to be satisfying. Theres soo much food, it's so filling even after one plate. Today we went to Sfinaki and it was the only meal I had the whole day (a brunner..? breakfast-lunch-dinner :P).

We went at an irregular time- 2ish/3.. and there were no one inside, which was fine. We had an isolated table by the window.. staring out at the Turkish Donair shop across the road (I am intrigued and would like to try it actaully). I usually order a lamb souvlaki but I decided to be adventourous today and try the gyro. haha. It was only 12 bucks and it came with fries, salad, and rice.

The food came rather quickly. My gyro was really really good. The lamb inside was soo delicious. The only downside was the large amount of onions.. I should have ordered it without. it was so gooddd.. but really hard to eat. Hopefully no one looked in from the outside, because I looked like a monster haha. The fries and rice were delicious as well. The lamb shoulder my friend had was very tender (and to prove it, the knife was never used :P).

that gyro was so good, I think I might have to start ordering said thing more. mmm.

Sfinaki! good! Go!

Socrates+Pappagallo

It's nearing the end stretch for me in school.. everything is falling into place rather smoothly, except for one more big big paper I have. Me and my roomie were chilling in our living room, talking about summer exchange to europe and beautiful paris and how she wants to go to Spain and I want to go to Ukraine... when all of a sudden this loud awful beeping came on. It was the fucking fire alarm.
After taking 10 minutes of torturous ringing because concindentally it was time for me to enroll in classes, we left and decided to go somewhere close for a quick bite.

I've always wanted to go to Pappagallo Cafe.. home of the supposed ultimate cheesecake. Inside, there was one other table.. the cheesecakes were displayed prominently.. there were blueberry, strawberry, pb chocolate, cappuchino, etc... The fruit ones looked kind of weird but the chocolate cheesecakes sure looked yummy. We got the Turtles one to go for 3.75. I must say it was pretty cheap! The ones at Trees Cafe is around 7-9 bucks? Too expensive! but nice manager owner man :)

The cheesecake itself was very creamy and the crust wasn't very hard. I prefer hard cheesecakes so I wasn't too fond of the creaminess. You can definitely taste the cream cheese though. I didn't like the crust either, I felt like it overpowered the whole thing. But for 3.75, I won't be complaining too much.

We then crossed the street over to Socrates for an early dinner (we do mean early- 4:00. stupid daylight savings is messing my dinner time up! hah). I've been here one time before for my friend's surprise birthday dinner. I don't remember much from it except they ran out of glasses and stuff from the overload of people..

It was really dark inside, as they were preparing for some birthday dinner coming up. We were situated by the window, and the waitress quickly comes over. She seems to really despise her job.. She was basically a robot with her response to us, and it was just really awful. Like she would say Thank you, very good choice, quick and easy choices, I am fine thank you for asking.. stuff like that in the most monotone boring i-hate-my-life voice ever! Her attitude got me depressed! I personally find waitressing to be a lot of fun- communicating with customers etc.. I mean sometimes you get real jerks or some days is just off, but I don't ever SHOW it

Anyways, we ordered the roast lamb and lamb souvlaki. It took AGES to get out. We sat there staring out the window, beginning to contemplate that maybe Hong Sushi across the street might have been a better choice to eat at..

The food comes, and it was ok. We both thought the lamb was too fatty and not lean enough. Everything else was edible.. and standard greek food.

I guess it's a good thing both our dishes cost lest than 11 bucks. We couldn't help it and had to go over to Hong Sushi after to look at their menu, and dang do their sushi rolls look good for their cheap price. I might have to come one day! (sure as hell not go to Tataya sushi a block away.. all you can eat sushi for 10.95, but it's really sketchy and gross..)

Little Billy's Steakhouse

Me and my two best friends haven't gone out and dined in such a long time. We used to go downtown so much but it's been a chaotic month with school and midterms/assignments/papers. Tonight we had plans on going to Sfinaki on Hastings but they were abruptly demolished when the bus stopped from a pretty brutal looking car crash. Being a nice civilian, the bus driver got out and began helping and told all of us to take the next bus that was coming within minutes. Being such a good samaratan, he should at least moved the bus maybe to an off road. The roads there are already filled with lots of traffic, with the added crash and the long bus, they were even more conjested. My friends were dying of hunger and were eyeing socrates/little billy's that was a block down. I didn't want to go to socrates again because I had been once, so I agreed on little billy's

Inside, it is very small yet very cozy. Everyone seems to know each other and they seemed pretty booked. Nonetheless they gave us a table and we ordered a few dishes. We shared a lamb chops while my vegetarian friend had the mac and cheese. I don't like mac and cheese but apparently it was very good. The lamb chops were pretty yummy, so was the rice. The bread was not and neither were the potatoes (too lemony) the vegetables seemed really old too.

The manager seemed very outgoing and apparently went to every table and asked them about their dinners, cept ours. We were pretty pissed. Just because we are 3 teenage/young adult girls doesn't mean we are not supposed to be here. A little "how was dinner tonight?" would be fine. We were paying and honestly he was just standing there behind us and it got a little awkward too.

Whatever, the place is super close to us and we had a satisfying meal tonight.

Bouzyos

It has been AGES since I had greek food so I was super excited to go to Bouzyos this past Thursday. Inside was cute and had a nice ambiance. The service was ok, it took awhile for them to come over and take our orders though. I ordered the Lamb Souvlaki (16 bucks??) and my friend ordered the lamb and chicken. The food took a while to get out. and it came With the bread. Hum.. why would I want to eat bread when my food is already here :(
Anyways, the lamb was really rubbery to eat..but the chicken was pretty tender. the one sole potato looked so sad.. it was ok and the rice was yummy (you can't go wrong with rice though?).
16 bucks for souvlaki seems a tad big expensive. Thank god I had a coupon. The next Greek place I shall try is Sfinaki.. I've heard good things.

Stephos!

I've always meant to go here but the lineup makes me not want to wait around. I've tried Takis and Characters on Davie, and they both sucked. I was really happy when my friend got a table in 10 min at Stephos. I was at SFU so when I got there, I didn't have to wait around :) Although the food took a long time, the table behind us got there later than us and got there food first :(

We ordered the Tiropitas. It was ok. I only ate a bit of it, I am not a huge cheese fan. We shared a lamb chop platter and it was delicious. The lamb chops were so good and so were the rice and potatoes. I didn't like the salad too much though. We also got the tzatziki with pita. It was too garlicy for my liking.


It was really cheap. It came to around 25 dollars + tip. I'll probably come back one day but I don't know if I would line up for it. It wasn't That amazing.

gah!

On Tuesday class ended early so we went to Characters on Davie because Stephos was packed with people. I had mixed feelings about this place because the place was sooo empty. We were starving though because we ate practically nothing that day and bin 941 didn't seem as filling as greek food would have been. We went inside and the waitor or manager greeted us warmly and said he saw us looking at the menu and if we hadn't come in, we would be missing the best food ever. That was very welcoming so it was a good start. That was it though. The woman manager or waitress who took our order was so rude and was staring out the window when taking our order. wtf. Then the food took 20 minutes in this empty place. The food came. It was ok.

I didn't want to stay any longer so we got the bill and she was so cold and rude once again. Then we left and the male manager waitor was like wasn't the food good? you'll definitely come back? oh during the dinner, people were outside looking at the menu and he went out and tried to get them to come in too but they didn't. So he's desperate and the woman was rude. Great service.