OPA! of Greece Belmont Market

I'm a big fan of OPA in general, but something is off" at this location. The Greek salad tasted like old dish water

THE SHORT: This was my first time going to an OPA! of Greece, and my first impression was that the food was quite good, even if a bit heavy on the cheap & greasy carbs to fill you up, and was relatively cheap compared to other fast food/fast causal chains after taking into consideration how filling it is. Its ambience is rather lacking though, but as long as the lobby is clean and available it’s not a huge problem. I’m here to eat.THE LONG: I ordered a gyro pita wrap combo (which comes with fries and tzatziki dip) which costed me $13.81 after tax. The wrap itself was rather unremarkable, though still satisfactorily tasty and filling, but the fries, THE FRIES. For an afterthought of a side dish, they were phenomenal. They were nice and thick (I can’t stand fries that are all salt and no potato) and perfectly golden yellow; crispy but soft and moist but not greasy. However, what really sets them apart was that they were seasoned to perfection with what I am pretty sure is just oregano, but that’s still a cut above every other “1 $ on Google” restaurant I know of, and that’s not even mentioning the Spartan quantities of them given to you. They’re to die for when paired with the tzatziki.Unfortunately, the lobby is where this restaurant falls short of 4 or maybe even 5 stars. In spite of being a basically brand new location, the decor and ambience consists of 00s era Subway-esque kitsch stock photos with a thin veneer of “Greekness” thrown over it. Photoshopped women, unrealistic produce, and the occasional photo of the Greek waterfront, all on stark blue & white walls illuminated dimly by nauseous pale-green LED lights (it’s probably not as bad with daylight, but I went at 9:30 PM). The only thing to distract you from what you see is what you hear; FM radio top 40s music blasts from the Olympus, disorienting you, beckoning for your attention, ALL your attention. I’ll take it to go next time, thank you.At least they offer you paper plates when you ask to dine in, and the lobby has many comfortable booth with outlets to avail yourself of.Oh, and the service was unremarkable. They just had one guy working at that time and he did the job, there wasn’t much to really take note of.

Great service, good quality fresh food

Very fresh salads. Calimari and skewers and pita were all GREAT. Next time I am going g to the beach for a picnic dinner I will order from.OPA.

The food is always good but why are they charging $0.25 for paper bags now? I thought paper bags were a given for take out.

Was ok, have had better food at other Opa locations though. The gyro in the pita was over cooked but the flavour was fine. The Opa fries were very good, fresh and hot.The restaurant was fairly empty at noon but most of the tables had left over crumbs and there was a scattering of paper on the floor. I don’t want to assume it was left over from the weekend however I fail to believe that they had a mad rush before we arrived.It wasn’t dirty per say, just made me wonder how well cleaned the rest of the place was.Service wasn’t overly friendly. Mundane.Got the job done. It was just ok.

Was excited to find Greek take out, but sadly was not that satisfied. The last time I have had Greek food was at The Greek Souvlaki House in Ottawa. Their food is so tasty with great flavours and huge portion sizes.I don't think you can compare restaurant food to takeout, however, when orderied a Mega" platter

Mirroring other people's experiences I went in to this location and ordered. Noted that all the staff were wearing gloves around but based upon the soiling, it appeared they were the Once-a-day" gloves. Once the cooking began same gloves used for money ended up being the ones used to handle the food. The line had to be drawn when another employee with her blue nitrile gloves that she was using for sanitizer cleaning touched the opa fries. When confronted about it the employees admitted it was sanitizer on the gloves and seemed confused why I wanted a refund and no food. These young people really need some help with training in foodsafe. I don't think they intend to do a poor job but I also don't intend to get sick."

Have only ordered on Skip from here but just want to give praise to this place! I think the prices for the amount of food is great, and they've been able to accommodate all my requests and substitutions which I really appreciate. I love the flavours and how fresh the food tastes. My only critique is that the fries I've received the past couple of times have been soggy, even though the first time I ordered from here they were crispy! And the baklava is prepackaged and on the dry side with flavour more like apple pie than authentic baklava. Aside from that I love the flavour of the rice, the chicken is cooked and seasoned perfectly, the fresh pita is delicious, great tzatziki, fresh salad and crispy calamari! Also appreciate this is one of the few places that is open to delivery a little later!

Staff is great. The one owner knows me and my son by name everything we come in which is not often enough to remember us but he makes the effort. Great food, great staff