Astoria Shish Kebob House Vaughan — Restaurant in Vaughan

We were so excited to try this place for the first time. We love authentic Greek food. We did take out

We ordered 4 meals.

Fried Calamari with fries and potatoes Grilled Calamari with rice and potatoes Chicken Soivlaki with rice and veggies Lamb souvlaki with double veggies Sides of Greek Salad

The only thing any of us liked was the salad.

Chicken was dry and over cooked Lamb was hardly cooked at all and raw. I had to cook at home Fried calamari were obviously not homemade. Rubbery. And had the same taste as frozen premade Grilled calamari was hard as a rock and rubber. Potatoes were so stale and had turned black Fries were obviously cooked hours earlier Rice was bland with no flavour Veggies were the frozen type they clearly microwaved

The salads however had a LOT of feta and was really good! The tzatziki was thick and delicious.

Total bill for take out was over $150

I could have bought frozen stuff and made a much better meal at home for $30.

Portions were tiny and the food was insanely over priced.

I don’t know who is giving this place amazing reviews but I bet they’ve never had good Greek food before. We hardly ate the food and threw most of it out.

My advice to the establishment: stop serving premade frozen food and trying to pass it off as authentic. At these prices I expect a much higher quality food not low end mall grade takeout.

Have some pride in what you serve and don’t try to be smart and rip off customers.

Will I be back? NO

Do I recommend? NO

I should have gone to Santorini. That place has the...

This is a child hood favorite family style dining. This restaurant is where I have been eating with my family from the age of 12 on the danforth. The food and the service are great. I truly love the great management at the Vaughan Location as they keep me coming back for more : ) (Despite the higher prices) My only concern with the restaurant is that it has over the years they raised their prices up 3 times and what use to be a family centric dining experience is becoming more of a mid tier night out that starts to cost families on average 20 dollars more based on my simple math for 4 people (2 adults and 2 children). I truly feel more deals are needed and more family discounts are needed if Astoria truly wants to add that value back to its loyal family client base. I know food costs are rising, wages are now etching up to $15/hr minimum by 2019. But a wise business always looks to reduces operating costs not just jack up the cost of menu items. Areas may include disposable cost reduction tactics for their takeout containers, consider being more efficient with kitchen supplies, properly manage costs from bulk pucheases. I find in the end raising prices every time costs goes up as opposed to managing efficiencies can cost a business its client base and then it becomes a vicious circle of cost increases. Non the less I love eating at your restaurant and I am fortunate to afford a night out with my family. But please be aware of the concerns of other families whom love...

This location is absolutely terrible. The staff is rude, the food is both mediocre and smaller portions, and the service is absolutely deplorable.

Everything here, compared to the Danforth location, is worse. Management has no idea what they are doing, and it's just gotten worse and worse over the years

First of all, your serving sizes are smaller. You give less food than the Danforth location. I'm tired of ordering a $10 tzatziki order and getting $2 worth. So I like to order a large to go so I can eat it and take the rest home. They actually had the audacity to say no to me here at this location. Even something as trivial as a salad, you totally cheap out on the serving. You think you're getting ahead in life by doing this to people, but all your doing is alienating the long term clients like myself and my family that have been so loyal to Astoria for 40 years. None of my friends and family want to come to this location anymore because of this.

Huge wake up call, it's 2024, it's hard to get people to spend their hard earned money in this economy and you have the balls to say no to a customer that wants to pay $10 for tzatziki? Good for you! I'll drive my butt to Danforth for my weekly...