Feta & Olives

I go to Feta and Olives in the Atrium for lunch almost every day now. The food is healthy, prepared fast and very reasonably priced. The management changed over a few months ago and they’ve added a bunch of new and delicious items to their salad bar. They now have quinoa pilaf, beets, coleslaw, Greek salad, orzo pasta, chick peas, couscous, tabbouleh, fiesta bean salad, and a few more. You can also choose to mix and match as many items as you want if you order a salad or get a side salad as part of a combo with another item.
Their pitas are delicious, especially with the tzatziki sauce and you can customize the toppings on your pitas as well (including anything you want from the salad bar!) The staff are very friendly and always give out either a $ 1 coupon or a 10% discount coupon for your next visit too. It’s always an enjoyable experience for me so I highly recommend trying them out.

Feta & Olive is located in the Atrium on Bay in the main food court. It’s the only Mediterranean style place in this limited food court, so when it opened a while back, my coworkers and I thought that it would be a really good option for lunch. They have a number of daily specials but I tend to stick to the gyro in a pita and sometimes get a side dish, sometimes not. I’ve had the souvlaki (chicken) as well and I’ve tried this and that off the menu.
Like many of the restaurants in this food court, you’re best coming to this particular food place if you’re in a rush or can’t be bothered to walk to the Urban Eatery or the food court at Toronto Life Square. The food here is, at best, uninspired. For Mediterranean food, I’m used to having quite a lot of flavor and the gyro here is the most flavorless I’ve ever had. Thank god they put tzatziki on it, otherwise it would be rather boring. As well, they don’t actually GRILL the gyro before serving it like good places do, its just sort of packed meat mush. And most of the time its not even freshly cut off the spit. They’re rather stingy with just about everything that you’d put onto a pita — tzatziki, lettuce, tomato… annoying.
The service isn’t very good — the main guy is talkative and nice but all of his staff act like they’re just working for the end of their shifts. It’s depressing talking to them — to the staff at Feta & Olives — try smiling!!!
I only go to this place when I’m forced to eat in the food court and am feeling like gyro for lunch. In a pinch, it’ll do but you’re better off walking across the street to Jimmy the Greek and getting way better food for the same price (and more of it). This is another one of those places that I have to keep asking myself WHY I go to on occasion.