Panama Restaurant — Restaurant in Dollard-des-Ormeaux

Where's the Sauce?

I visited with a friend for a late lunch/early dinner, and we were famished from our day's activities. While trying to decide what to order, the warm and attentive waitress brought us water, toast, butter, and lemon wedges. I wasn’t sure about the lemon wedges, but the toast and water were a nice welcome.

We ended up ordering the fried calamari and two chicken brochette combos each. With tax and tip, the total came to about $120-$130 for two people.

The calamari was amazingly bland (yay for the lemon wedges!). Also sauceless—was that normal? I checked reviews and sure enough, photos showed calamari without any sauce. No cocktail sauce, no aioli, nothing. Maybe it’s just me, my friend, and a lot of other people I’ve asked, but isn’t a dipping sauce standard?

Next up, the chicken brochette combo. Not horrible, but what exactly was so "Greek grill" about it? The chicken was nearly white with a little pink, so it was juicy, but—where was the tzatziki? Isn’t that a normal addition? The rice was forgettable, the potato was surprisingly fun to eat, and the salad—no feta.

All in all, disappointing. I had heard high praise for this place back in the day, but my friend and I quickly lost our appetites. Surprisingly, the kind yet unconcerned waitress didn’t ask if anything was wrong—call me crazy, but that feels like a sign of habit. She just boxed everything up (expertly, I might add), and we ended up enjoying it later that night—with some Heinz seafood cocktail sauce and Kraft...

It was our daughter's birthday and she wanted to try this restaurant. She said it's Greek restaurant. So, we were hoping for nice Greek salad, Tzatziki sauce, bread etc. But, nothing like that was being served. First of all the plate looks full because they spread few leaves of chopped salad covering your half of the plate. Second, they spread some rice and then there is chicken or shrimps what ever you ordered. Our Salad had only one olive and one pickle pepper. That is not Greek at all. In my son's plate there was only one olive. We ordered Calamari and we were waiting for the fish sauce or anything else as sauce and the waiter said, it comes like this. With $ 27.00 plate of Calamari nothing else. Then we had to ask for the sauce. Which took more than 7 minutes to get and by the time Calamari was cold.

The Chicken was very bland. I had ordered Shrimps. It was just boiled 5 shrimps for almost $ 32.00 Not worth going. My son had pork stick which was smelly. He did not like it even.

No Bread or Tzatziki or pickles were served. Not recommended to anyone to go there. For the price not worth going. Not enough portion even. There is nothing as Greek. I wonder why is it called Greek Restaurent? It's better to go to any other place and would enjoy more...

I've been here several times over the last 7 years but would now have to cousel AGAINST dining here. Last experience in October was a bit surprising. Ordered 2 stick pork souvlaki plate. The size of the serving was what other restaurants would call a kids meal, the sticks were shorter than in the past and the diameter of the meat on the sticks is much smaller than before, about an inch. The side effect of reducing the size of the meat is that the smaller bite size pieces are more wellI done and dry-ish. I was looking for the tzadziki, to remedy a bit of the dryness, and when I asked they said it was 3$ extra. What Greek restaurant serves souvlaki without tzadziki? Rest of the plate showed signs of penny pinching as well. The management at this restaurant made the incorrect decision to cut food out of the clients plate to try and ballance costs, result: you are unhappy about the food AND the bill. If I'm gonna go out to eat these days I understand its gonna be more expensive... If I wanted to save $ I would...