The Arkadia House Restaurant

Unfortunatly alot of the reviews were not correct, had dinner there last night thinking it would be very good, nthe food wasnt that good and the service even worse, the waiter was very snutty and the portions where very small. the parking lot is extrimly small so we had to park across the street. In the end the bill came to over $ 100 but I feel the meal was ok but only worth half of that. But I did try Lamb and Quall something I never had before. Not even asked for a refill on our pop even though you pay for at least two.

This is a lovely sit down restaurant with a quiet classy atmosphere. We tend to dress up when we go there. The Captain’s Platter, Grilled Calamari and the soulvaki dinner are our favourites. The service is friendly and prompt. We really need to go there more often. When you have a treasure in the area, you want to keep it there! Highly recommended.

I have gone here twice with family and friends on visits to Toronto, both times were similar experiences. It’s a big restaurant and pretty quiet, the place reminds me a bit of a ballroom. It seems like a place people might have wedding receptions at.
The waiters came to our table within minutes of us sitting down. While attentive, I had the impression that they didn’t want to be there, and just wanted to get things done and over with.
Anyways, the food: dinner started with some garlic bread and a generous portion of Greek salad. Nothing special about the salad, I would say the bread was better. My sister ordered the hot appetizer plate for us (we were a group of 7), and that was just ok. There was some calamari and spanakopita, to what I remember. After the appetizers, I was already getting pretty full.
I have tried the spanakopita and the pork souvlaki as the main dish on separate occasions. Both dishes come served with some rice and vegetables. The spanakopita was good, the souvlaki and the vegetables were dry. Most of us at the table were unable to finish our meals, and ended up taking the rest to go.
For dessert I tried the baklava, which was good as well, probably the best part of the meal.
Not really authentic Greek food, but passable. I would go again if invited by my family, as they really seem to like it, but it’s not a place I would go back to on my own decision.

Such a nice place! Brought my girlfriend there for dinner, we both enjoyed everything about the place! From the décor to the food/​drinks/​service!
Would and definitely WILL go back again!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
PS: I EVEN PUT AN OLIVE IN MY MOUTH AND SWALLOWED IT! lol

I always try to say something positive in my reviews, so I’ll start by complementing the decore and nice servers.
Sadly, it goes downhill from there. I have eaten here serveral times due to work functions, and every time the food has been bland and NOT GREEK!
From the Salad, to bread, to Souvlaki… even the watery Tzatziki sad imitations of Greek Food.
The service, while friendly is EXTREMLY slow, and if you ask to have seperate bills on a large group… they tally it at the table not even using a calculator.
3 people had the same meal and received 3 different prices lol.
I wish the owners would fix this place… start with the recipes please. Slow service can be forgiven when the food is worth the wait.

Hmmm, I don’t know where to start? Noticed this place driving by one day with a full parking lot. Checked Unilocal,and it sounded like it could be a hit and miss so the next time I ended up driving by decided to give it a try… And
It was absolutely horrible, there are not even words to describe just how terrible this place is… Chicken that you can’t cut or swallow, really?
It’s just awful, no words. From start to finish it is awful! Inedible McDonalds Big Mac shredded lettuce salad to their rubber chicken souvlaki and then the waiter who gives you a basket of garlic bread, puts it on your table, then says «oh no» and takes it to a table on the other side of the restaurant.
Just stay away, don’t even think about it!

I came here for dinner with a friend on a week night when it was pretty dead. She frequents this place because she works near by and it was my first time at this restaurant. I ordered the gyro dinner and she got the souvlaki dinner. We were served a basket of warm, toasted, and buttered bread at our table as well as black olives and pickle wedges. Our greek salads came first and the serving was more than a side salad and tasted really good. Then the rest of our meals came. Mine came with veggies and potatoes while hers came with rice and veggies. We were pretty filled up from the bread and salad so we both ate half and took the rest home. Overall, I would come back as it is better than Mr. Greek and more convenient than going to the Danforth for a Greek food fixing.

Overpriced food and shady business tactics. Went to this place recently and the food was bland with no flavor or seasoning. After I paid I found out they charged me $ 13.95 for the platter when the menu price said $ 12.95. Service was sub par and the soft drinks were flat. I won’t be going to place ever again.

I was craving Greek food, so couple of us went here for an early dinner on a Sunday. It wasn’t busy, but people were trickling in as we left.
The servers were not so friendly, but the food was good.
I had the spanakopita, and my friends had the shawarma, which they enjoyed.
The complimentary olives and bread (already buttered) was really good!

Simply the worst service ever!!! Buyer beware! Food is adequate and the waiters are all rude!

Pretty decent food for the price. Arkadia is within walking distance of my workplace so it’s a great lunch spot.

Will definitely be back. Nice classy romantic place. Food was delicious and beautiful presentation, generous portion sizes, garlic bread and pickles with olives served as your waiting. Grilled octopus appetizer was delicious if you like seafood. Hope that helps & bon appétit

This place was hellacrowded at lunch today. After my dining experience, I’m not sure why. Let’s begin with the fact that the service is garbage. I asked if it would be possible to split my calamari order and have half fried and half grilled. I wanted to splurge but a whole plate of deep fried is a bit much. Well I was informed that that’s like having a boyfriend and a husband at the same time. I can’t have both. Okay??? Funny I guess? But so much for accommodating guests. Next, we weren’t asked once if we were enjoying our meal though we did have to ask three times for more water before it finally happened. On the plus side, our food came pretty quickly, but our server couldn’t remember what any of us ordered and gave us all the wrong meals. The buns that they give you are a big olé meh too. Don’t bother. My calamari was tender, but absolutely flavorless. Guess they don’t season it. And my veggies must have had MSG on them because sure enough, I had a reaction. We were not thanked by our waiter when we paid the bill either which left me really unimpressed.
Okay anyone can have a bad day, but my friend who comes here regularly said today was actually a more friendly service than normal. Wow. Just wow.

This restaurant has been hit and miss for the last 4 years or so — mostly miss.
I usually order the chicken bifteki on a PITA and a small chicken souvlaki dinner.
The chicken souvlaki dinner has been consistent for the most part, it tastes good, and can feed two people.
The chicken bifteki tastes good when it’s properly cooked but I’ve had burnt chicken one too many times over the past 4 years. In addition to overcooking the meat, they’ve recently been struggling with understanding what a chicken bifteki on a «pita» means vs. a «bun». The bun option is a hotdog bun that basically over powers the chicken and dries up the tzatziki which feels like you’re just eating bread.
I’ve made three separate orders over the last 3 months and I’ve always clearly stated I wanted a pita, the gentleman on the phone always goes «ya ya on a pita ok» and I end up getting a bun. Not sure if it’s their cooks or an incorrect entry in to the computer but it’s really annoying.
When this happened again during the most recent visit, I called back and told them the order was incorrect again. Usually I get an apology and offered free biftekis (an offer I’ve never taken them up on) but this time… there was no apology.
I think I’m done with this place, I’d rather make the extra 15 min drive out to the Danforth.
PS. For what it’s worth, if I was to review this restaurant in ²⁰⁰⁸⁄₀₉ I would rate the food/​customer service as ⁴⁄₅ stars.

We usually order Friday Lunch Take-​out once a month or every 2 months. We work close by so we walk over and pick it up. We have been ordering from Arkadia for almost 4 years and whenever I call in to order, it’s lickity split done with no hastle. It is usually the older gentleman taking the call who has an accent.
Because it was Friday and busy, our big order would take 20 minutes but that was perfectly fine. I order for myself the Gyro in a Pita ($ 4.95).
We head over after 20 minutes and I give him my credit card. Nice and easy. Our food was ready in 2 – 3 minutes after I cashed out. The gentleman asks if all the orders are there to make sure and checking, everything was fine.
We head back and I rip open that Gyro bad boy. Gyro in a Pita has tender slices of gyro (ground beef w/​a little bit of lamb flavour), fresh tomatoes, onions, Arkadia house tzatziki sauce wrapped in a grilled pita. Delicious as always. Sure, sometimes the tomatoes and onions are not as chopped into smaller pieces but hey, the food goes down the hatch the same way. Use the chompers!
The Gyro meat itself and tzatziki sauce are my favourites. The meat is totally tasty and sometimes a little crispy which I find delightful. The sauce is thick and pasty yummy. Danforth has the best tasting gyros in my opinion but for a close by Scarborough option, it is convenient and a treat.
Try it out if you are in the area. At $ 4.95 I find that an amazing deal for a Greek pita sandwich. The Chicken Bifteki in a Pita is a good choice too.

Came here randomly for lunch. Nice place ordered lunch special and was very happy with what I got

4 of us went for dinner last week while visiting Toronto. My in-​laws said they go here about once a month. It’s nice/​upscale inside.
To start we had a very nice basket of bread and ordered drinks. They had a couple of craft beers on the menu: I had an Upper Canada Dark Ale ($ 5) that was pretty good. Wife & sister in law had white wine.
For appetizers we had saganaki which was excellent and also some very meaty dolmades. Not much rice inside the grape leaves — mostly meat — so they were filling but very good. Appetizers were around $ 8-​$ 10.
Dinner entrees came with a large salad. For dinner my wife had a chicken and potato dish ($ 19) and I had salmon ($ 24) with a massive portion of traditional greens (rapini/​broccoli rabe). The salmon was cooked nicely and a nice size piece. Service was decent. I think the bill came to about $ 170.

A small treasure in Scarborough!
Who would have thought of this great Greek place in Scarborough? When I think Greek Food … I automatically think Danforth but will definitely return back to Arkadia.
Their food was flavourful and AMAZING! I love the pickles on the table! The warm hot bread loaf also did me in.
Service was good — it was quiet so we were one of 3 tables in the dining room. We went really early for dinner.
Started off with a bunch of appetizers — of course SAGANAKI!
We had a LAMB feast and ordered their daily special of roast lamb, the lamb stuffed in phyllo pastry and lamb souvlaki. DELICIOUS! All the dishes were cooked perfectly and loved the potatoes!
We will be back to try more :)

We went here for Mother’s Day, not my choice, but the rest of the family picked it. We had been there before and I hated it, but everyone claimed it had a new owner and the food was great now and as good as any place on the Danforth. They lied.
The place looks just the same as last time I was there about 3 years ago and they had the same senior citizen waiters, although there were a couple of younger new ones. To give them the benefit of the doubt, they were completely full and probably swamped. We had a 7pm reservation and didn’t get seated until probably 7:15 or so. We got a complimentary plate of olives and dill pickle spears. Still trying to figure out the pickles, as they used to put hummus on there.
We got no menus at all until I motioned to one of the waiters to bring them. Shockingly, the lamb souvlaki was missing from the menu, with only pork, chicken, or beef as options. So much for what I wanted to order! Also, the prices were a lot higher than they had been. It was $ 17.95 for pork souvlaki, $ 18.95 for chicken, and $ 19.95 for beef.
We got bread before the menus, and had eaten it all before anyone ever came to give us water. The bread was really good and we were really hungry. :-) Finally they took our order and we got appetizers in about 10 minutes or so and salads came shortly after that. The salads were probably the best part of the meal besides the bread, quite large and with lots of feta. The appetizers were OK but not great and for the first time I can remember, there was calamari left over. I don’t eat it but I am guessing it wasn’t very good since everyone else usually scarfs it down.
The entrees took forever, probably an hour after we had been seated, and were not worth the wait. The pork souvlaki was quite disappointing, very dry and not very hot. The rice, which was a complaint of mine in the past, was still plain, dry, and tasteless. The roasted potatoes you normally get were missing and instead they put steamed broccoli, cauliflower, and carrot. I hate broccoli and cauliflower so didn’t eat those. They tzatziki sauce was in a tiny cup and while good was not enough for all the meat since it was so dry you really had to dunk it. We ordered dessert and it was OK, same you would get from any restaurant that buys their deserts from somewhere else.
All in all, we were there for over 2 hours and nobody was very happy with their food. I think the consensus was to go elsewhere next time, Mr. Greek was mentioned, instead of this tired old place. I gave them 2 stars only because they were so busy, had it been a normal night and we got the same food and service, I would have only given 1 star.

After spending a good morning under the sunshine at the beach, my friends and I were craving for Greek food. A friend recommended The Arkadia House near Eglinton and Warden, so we decided to give it a try. I was quite surprised that there was such a fancy restaurant in the middle of a mostly industrial strip.
Once we settled down, complimentary garlic bread was served, along with a plate of pickles and olives. I was a little over-​excited about the garlic bread and admittedly ate one too many pieces. They were so good that we asked for a refill of the basket!
All the entrees also come with a complimentary plate of Greek salad, which was big enough to fill me up for lunch! The salad was quite delicious, albeit a little on the heavy side with all that feta cheese. Seriously, I didn’t need to eat my entrée at all after the garlic bread and salad.
Amongst our group, we ordered many entrees:
Stuffed chicken breast ($ 18.95) — butterflied chicken breast rolled with spinach and feta, topped with light cream sauce. I tried a bite but wasn’t really a big fan of this one.
Gyro ($ 14.95) — slices of lamb and beef. I really enjoyed the gryo, but it was difficult to distinguish between the lamb and beef slices (I don’t eat lamb). The two pieces of beef that I tried were very flavourful. my friend couldn’t finish even half of this and had to pack the rest home.
Beef souvlaki ($ 19.95) — definitely not as good as the gyro, as the meat was tougher. The portion was also less generous, not that there wasn’t enough food to go around.
Chicken exohicko ($ 16.95) — fresh filet of chicken wrapped in filo pastry, stuffed with romano and feta cheese. This was also one of my favourite bites of the meal.
Mousaka– ($ 16.95) layers of pan-​fried eggplant, potatoes and ground beef, topped with béchamel sauce. The potato component was really interesting, almost had an egg-​light texture to it. Although I enjoyed it on the whole, I felt that there was too much meat and not enough eggplants.
My overall impression of this restaurants is that there is a lot of food. The food is generally tasty, and we were all stuffed to the brim! I wouldn’t come back unless I was super hungry next time!