Location: 708 Pape Avenue, Toronto
Website: https://souvlike.ca/

Souv Like has a reputation for serving some of the best gyros in the GTA.  All it took was one bite to confirm this to be true.  Heck, I knew it was probably true just by looking at it, with all those gloriously brown crispy bits.

They have a handful of things on the menu, but I think the pork or chicken gyros are where it’s at.

I went with the pork, which is a pretty no-frills wrap, coming stuffed with meat, tomatoes, onions (which I skipped), fries, and secret sauce.  I should also note that the grizzled man behind the counter assembled this thing with remarkable speed; I think he shaved the meat off the spit and put the wrap together in something like thirty seconds.  And yet nothing about it felt haphazard, with a good proportion of meat to toppings to sauce.  The guy’s clearly been doing this a while.

It’s an amazing wrap.  The pork is pretty much exactly where you want it to be, with an abundance of crispy bits, a nice tender texture, and a great flavour.  It’s maybe a touch on the salty side, but that’s balanced out nicely by the slightly sweet secret sauce.  The perfectly cooked fries are a good addition, and the fresh, slightly chewy pita works well.

I also like that the wrap is heavy on meat, and light on everything else.  A lot wraps like this are so overloaded with veggies that the meat almost feels like an afterthought.  Clearly, that’s not the case here.