Afternoon on the Danforth: Souv Like & La Diperie

We decided to go grab a bite to eat on the Danforth one weekend, happened to be on of the hottest days EVER.  And yes, I'm catching up on my blogging, so this is a late post.  Life happens right?

Souv Like
I read that Souvlike has great authentic Greek gyros, at a good price, means I must go since theres one, no good Greek places uptown, and two good price!!!  When I got there, I was kinda surprised, it was a tiny place right across from Pape station.  My friend who used to frequent that location, said she's never even noticed it before but its been there a while.  We ordered a pork gyro and a chicken gyro.  Finally a place that puts french fries in the gyros, just like in Greece!  The gyro meats were seasoned well, and huge portions stuffed into that fresh fluffy pita bread.  I could eat this stuff for days!  This is the kind of place I like, a hole in the wall that makes AMAZING food.  No need for fancy restaurants for me...... well most of the time at least.

Pork and Chicken Gyros

Souv Like
708 Pape Avenue,

Toronto, ON 

M4K 3S7

Phone: (647) 349-9420

Hours:  Monday - Thursday 1100a - 100a
             Friday - Saturday 1100a - 500a
             Sunday 1100a - 100a

https://www.facebook.com/Souv-Like-745197328869469/

La Diperie
It's the freaking hottest day of the year, or at least it seems so to me.  So what do we need?  Cold cold ice cream.  Noticed this Montreal chain (from some place on the internet, most likely BlogTO or Yelp or something), and figured no better day to try it.  La Diperie does dipped soft serve cones.  They have a large variety of flavours for you to choose from, from regular milk chocolate to lavender dip.  I played it safe and went with a milk chocolate dip.  I was feeling boring that day.  I'm not sure if it was because it was hot, but my cone just didn't look so good.  The chocolate seemed not to solidify/stick to the cone.  Worth the money?  Definitely not.  The cone was small, so not worth it portion wise, think $1 Ikea cone size.

Cone at La Diperie

La Diperie
372 Danforth Avenue

Toronto, ON 

M4K 1P1

Phone:  416-901-7130

Hours:  Not sure of the hours, no hours on their website, and Yelp and Google show different times

https://www.ladiperie.com

Dum Phukt

A very intriguing name.  I'm sure it's not pronounced the way I'm thinking it's supposed to be pronounced, or else it would be a very inappropriate name. So I'm sure I'm wrong.  Usually when I want to eat Indian food, I like going for lunch because most Indian restaurants serve lunch buffet style.  Although I love Indian food, I feel like I never know what to order, so being surrounded by many options always works out better for me.  But this time, because my friend and I had no idea what we wanted for dinner, and time was running out, we decided to grab some takeout from Dum Phukt.  We ordered my favorite saag paneer, butter chicken, chicken biriyani, and some naan (regular and garlic).  The saag paneer was super bland.  Definitely would not reorder again.  Butter chicken was really good I thought.  It had some spices in it that I'm not used to tasting in butter chicken.  I have some friends that have tried the butter chicken from here before, but they're not a fan.  To each their own I guess.  The chicken biriyani was good, had nice spices, but it was literally just rice.  I think there were 5 really small cubes of chicken, that was it.  The naan was nothing special.  I think though if I had it fresh, and not steaming in tin foil for the drive home, it would have been better.

Naan, Saag Paneer, Butter Chicken, Chicken Biriyani

I wonder if they have buffet lunch, I would definitely be interested in giving their other dishes a try.

Dum Phukt
323 Denison Street,

Markham, ON 

L3R 1B7

Phone:  (905) 604-6401

Hours:  Monday - Thursday 1130a - 300p, 530p - 1000p

             Friday - Saturday 1130a - 300p, 530p - 1100p

             Sunday 1130a - 300p, 530p - 1000p

https://www.facebook.com/Dum-Pukht-1693345057556453/

Moji Japanese Eatery

Popped into Moji for a super late lunch on a Sunday.  We were getting kind of sick of normal Chinese food for a quick bite.  I can't remember how we ended up in this area because I HATE this plaza.  Hate the drivers and hate the parking here, especially the strip of parking that faces Kennedy Road because there's never any spots!

Because we arrived so late, they had their happy hour pricing available between 230p - 500p.  For $5.99, you get to choose an appetizer, main, and drink.  With my bad memory, I wish I took a picture of that menu.  In any case, based on my pictures, I ordered chilled tofu, gyu rice, and a strawberry green tea.  The hubby wanted ramen, so he ordered the toroniku ramen off the regular menu. 

When our food items arrived, we thought the portions were a bit small.  I don't know if my portions were small due to my food being for its happy hour pricing.  The tofu was good, smooth, with some soy sauce, and nori on top.  The gyu rice, I felt that there wasn't enough beef for the amount of rice given.  Flavours were ok.  Strawberry green tea was weak, not much green tea flavour at all.

Gyu Rice, Tofu & Strawberry Green Tea

The toroniku ramen came in a very small bowl.  The broth was ok, but it didn't have that rich pork taste to it.  Noodles were cooked al dente which was good.  Topping were presented on the side on a separate dish.  There were slices of pork, very thinly sliced, with some wood ear, and bamboo.  The egg, again in it's own separate dish.  For the price, $12.50, I was expecting there to be more.

Toroniku Ramen

Cute restaurant.  If it wasn't for the location, I think I would come back when I want something other than Hong Kong style cafe.

Moji Japanese Eatery
A6-8362 Kennedy Road

Markham, ON 

L3R 9W5

Phone:  (905) 479-6654

Hours:  Monday - Thursday 1130a - 900p

             Friday 1130a - 1000p

             Saturday - Sunday 1100a - 1000p

http://www.mojijapanese.com