With Taste of the Danforth coming up this weekend, Greek street food is on everyone’s mind. These two gyro joints on opposite ends of town offer some of the best in the city. Whose pitas are paramount? You decide.
Folia Grill |
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Original Gyro Grill |
| We have hard-core customers who have eaten gyros everywhere, and they say ours is the best gyro you can buy. | How similar is your gyro to one you’d find in Greece? | We do some gyros with traditional toppings — tzatziki, onion, tomato and fries — and in that sense they’re almost identical. But we also have other options to allow customers to have different toppings. |
| It’s meant to be treated as a sandwich, so you should eat the whole mixture together. Sometimes people feel weird that there are fries inside, but it’s a customizable gyro. | Fries inside or fries outside? Why? | I find that fries inside give an extra crunchiness to the pita. It’s something they do in Greece, and I find it makes it more tasty. Who doesn’t like fries on top of something? |
| We’ve had all the politicians from the Danforth area. We’ve had Olivia Chow, and we had Rob Ford — I have a picture with him. | Any famous customers? | We haven’t had any famous customers yet, but when the Brunswick House was still open, we’d have people lined up outside the store late at night, and we’d all move at super speed. |
| It should be spelled with an “i,” not a “y,” — so, “giro.” When you see it with a “y,” you’re always going to pronounce it wrong. “Jairo” is not the right way to pronounce it. | How do you pronounce “gyro”? | I pronounce it “yee-ro,” with a small “g” sound in front of it. It’s not “jairo.” I hear a lot of “jairo,” but that’s OK, we understand. |
