Taste of the Danforth

I've tasted the Danforth a few times but it was Janice's first time when we went last Saturday. There isn't a lot to say about it. It was packed and every restaurant selling anything greek seemed to have massive lines. So we ended up hitting up some sushi places and thai places initially. They offered tasty food without the endless wait. I'm not sure why the lines were so long because as I've discussed before Greek isn't all that exciting. We couldn't leave without getting anything Greek in the end so we picked up a Gyro from some place whose name I have forgotten. It was more like a neighbourhood pub style place than a place focused on Greek food.

The big disappointment was crowd management (well the second biggest after the 8.40 in transit fare we had to shell out to avoid the traffic nightmare). In many (most?) places particularly around the Greek lines, the walking slowed to snail's pace so not surprisingly this drove me crazy. A collector and express system with some fences seems like it would be useful but I could see that not being a widely supported concept. Just like people think that baseball players shouldn't be replaced by robots. When will the masses learn?

Friendly Greek

After years of harassing Ian to go to the Danforth Area for some greek food, he finally gave in and agreed to go. It may have been partly due to me offering to pick him up? Who knows. We went to the Friendly Greek as recommended by Ian's cheap eats book.


I had the veggie souvlaki with rice, potato and salad. About the only thing that was remotely tasty was the salad. The rest of it not so hot. Kind of a weird flavor all around.

Ian had a meaty souvlaki with rice and veggie. Same sorta thing.

Anywho, the moral of this story is, I should have just believed Ian when he said that greek food is really not all that tasty! Basically an inferior version of middle eastern food.