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Folia Grill
Categories: Restaurants Fast Food Restaurants Greek Fast Food, Greek [Edit]
1031 Pape AveToronto, ON M4K 3W1
Neighbourhood: East York
(416) 424-2800
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 11 am - 10 pm
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
8 reviews for Folia Grill
8 reviews in English
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Review from cynthia C.
Toronto, ON
2/23/2012
Excellent food! We started with an absolutely delicious greek salad which was made with the freshest ingredients and was served with a slab of quality feta cheese and a large helping of wonderful olives. We then shared the very large pork euro plate - yummy - which was served with a side of zucchini fries (a lovely alternative to the typical greek fries, though they have those, too). I'll definitely return again. As the five stars indicate, this is as good as it gets!!!!
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Review from mothermacs M.
Toronto, ON
4/20/2012
Folia Grill is located just south of Cosborne avenue on the East side of Pape It is open Monday to Saturday Lunch and Dinner I eat there about 3 times a month My last time in was this week for lunch. Mothermacs Devours has added it to some of my other favourite restaurants I have described.
There are certain things that define a restaurant experience; THE FOOD, pricing, cleanliness, service, decor, music, Folia knocks them out of the park at every time at bat. The Chef / owner Arben Toma sources his food from local markets and butchers.
Salads are prepared fresh and use good quality, fresh produce. The cuts of meat are tender and flavourful. They know how to cook order. The portions are great. I had the French cut pork chop with a sub village salad, bottle of water and a complimentary side of warm pita with Tzatziki with tip 16
The pork was cooked medium rare and had a wonderful lemon butter sauce, The horiataki ( village salad) was a sub and well worth the extra fee. Fresh tomato wedges, premium olive oil, Bermuda onion, herbs, fat olives topped off with a architectural size block of feta. Freshly cooked, great product, simple execution.
If your really hungry the Chicken or Pork Gyro is wonderful. Having ate fast food Gyro that is reminiscent of garlic infused catfood I was wary of this item. Folia serves the real deal; freshly carved pork or chicken carved from a tower of meat not ground mystery protein. It is lightly seasoned and flavourful. The portion is generous and only 8.50 and comes with a side. The biftecia is a balanced blend of seasoned pork and beef with a firm texture. All of the meat is flavourful but expresses the taste and texture of the protein
I like open kitchens, they keep people on point. The kitchen at Folios is small, clean and well organized. On my last visit I saw the owner squeezing lemons for juice in his brightly lit, clean prep area. Fresh, clean, well executed food.
Both Arben, and Stephen Birdwell are kind hosts who also cook the food. Generous to a fault, polite and quietly attentive
The decor is euro modern and is dominated by floor to ceiling glass giving a great view of the bustling Pape shopping area, It is not fine dining and does a great takeout business with it`s Gyro pitas. They have recently added background music that adds to the atmosphere (no Bouzoki or greek men wailing about lost loves)
I can`t say enough about this place.
Just down the street is Hansons Danish Bakery Wow. -
Review from Joy L.
Scarborough, ON
2/14/2012
Folia Grill has the juiciest tastiest pork souvlaki ($1.95) in town. It is served with a wedge of lemon to cut the fattiness of the pork belly! Charcoal, pork belly, sea salt and lemon....nom.
Their thick cut zucchini fries ($4.50) are equally fabulicious! The fries are served with a side of spiced mayonnaise! Zucchini is one of those vegetables that are high in water content. To fully enjoy these awesome fries, you have to eat it while it is crispy and piping HOT!
Their grilled pitas ($.75) are crunchy and great with the home-made refreshing tzatziki ($1.50)! What a great steal! The tazatziki has a lot less garlic than most Greek restaurants in Toronto. -
Review from Adhish V.
Toronto, ON
3/8/2012 2 photos
We stumbled upon Folia Grill looking for a cheap place to eat that was open past 9. I looked at the menu and somehow felt it was going to be good. I was definitly not dissapointed. I ordered the Biftekia because it sounded the most interesting. I got 3 pieces for 7 bucks including a side of fries. Not too shabby eh? The food was prepared fresh right in front of us in the open kitchen which was nice to see. I've never had biftekia before this and I'd describe it as a larger oval shaped meat ball. It was pretty delicious and very filling. It tasted just like I imagine it was supposed to - lots of that great ground meat flavour combined with seasoning. There was also some pita and tzatziki which was good too. The pita tasted a lot better and was a lot softer than most places I've eaten at. The owner was really friendly and allowed me to sample the zuchini fries before ordering them. Except the sample was an entire plate full with their sauce on the side. I ended up ordering the zuchini fries which weren't too bad although I really don't liek eating vegetables. Perhaps frying them made them a little tasty. On our way out we started chatting with the owner who gave us some feta cheese and pork to sample. They tasted really good, perhaps just as nice as the biftekia. The property is great too and looks liek it has been recently done up. Definitly a lot more upmarket than the prices would have you believe. Overall a great experience and definitly not my last time at this restaurant.
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Review from Ian P.
East York, ON
10/8/2011 3 Check-ins Here
A great neighborhood gem in the heart of Pape Villiage with authentic Greek fastfood.
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Review from Phil H.
Toronto, ON
4/15/2010
After grabbing a cortado at Mercury Espresso today, I figured I'd finally get around to trying this place out.
The first thing you'll probably notice is how small the menu is. I'd looked at the menu before but seeing it in the "flesh" really drives home how minimalistic it is. I'd be exaggerating if I tried to call it zen-like but what else do you do when all you are faced with in terms of pita toppings are tzatziki, red onions, tomatoes, and french fries?
I ordered the bifteki pita along with a side of zucchini fries.
Really glad to see that the zucchini fries were made to order (precut slices were tossed with batter before going into the fryer). The portion was generous to the point where I felt like a glutton for having eaten all of it. These things are damn tasty. Lightly battered, crunchy, not overly oily, and still distinctly zucchini-like, I would order these again (just not by myself) and they're a steal at just 3 bucks.
The bifteki pita was pretty delicious. The taste of the pork/beef mixture with onions and spices really comes through thanks to the small amount of fillings in the pita. The tzatziki is somehow noticeably better in taste than the tzatziki you'd commonly find in squeeze bottles at many gyro/pita contemporaries around town.
The menu is pared down to the bare minimum (3 pitas, 4 plates, 2 salads, 3 sides, and pork skewers). The prices are great for the portions that you get. They have a small selection of bottled beers (I noticed Steam Whistle as well as Heineken) along with glasses of house red/white wine. What's not to like?
This feels like the closest that you can get to a purist's notion of great Greek fast food in Toronto and even if it wasn't, it still makes for good eating. -
Review from George C.
Toronto, ON
5/27/2011 2 Check-ins Here
The chicken gyros is as authentic as it gets right down to the French fries in the pita. Well done, my friends!
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Review from Norm S.
East York, ON
4/21/2010 2 Check-ins Here
Folia Grill describes itself as serving Greek Fast Food. Really good Greek Fast Food. The owners know the Greek street food food they are inspired by very well and they do an excellent job at making it. I have no quibbles about the food at all.
We recently went for lunch.
When you first walk in the decor is so nice and clean it takes a second to realize that the service is fast food style, not waited tables. There were only two staff, a woman doing most of the cooking and a guy who did everything else, looking at the website these are the owners.
There was a little bit of business over getting a table despite their being 12 seats and only 5 other patrons. The table we wound up at was interesting as it was directly opposite the kitchen so we got to watch the action. For what is basically a fast food joint I was generally impressed, in particular that the salads were made fresh from fresh ingredients, OK the french fries were frozen from a bag but everything else except the pita bread (which was excellent) seemed to be made in house (in some cases, like the bifteki and the zucchini sticks obviously pre-made but not brought in frozen). All of the food looked really good and the portions were beyond generous. So here's the first caution, there's one cook, there's really no expediting and some things like hand chopping veggies for each village salad to order takes a little time, we we're cool with this, well worth it for well prepared food, but some of the patrons who came in for quick takeout seemed a little annoyed.
Caution number two is that the owners insistence on authenticity seems a little fusty. When we were there someone came in, perused the short menu for a second and asked why they didn't have chicken souvlaki, the answer was "because that wouldn't be authentic, they don't cook chicken that way in Greece, only pork and lamb" the guy looked stunned for a second then turned around and walked out.
There were a bunch of really minor service hiccups while we were there, nothing that was enough to put me off the place, but things that felt like first week jitters which shouldn't still be there as they have been open for a few months now.
We each had a pork souvlaki pita and shared an order of zucchini sticks, that and two bottles of water came out to less than 15 bucks for both of us. The sandwiches were very good, although next time I think I would probably opt for the gyros (chicken only) or the bifteki. The zucchini sticks were delicious and the portion insanely huge for the price, we couldn't finish it.
