The Sweet Onion Bistro

The onion is not just on the sign at Sweet Onion Bistro — it is cooked into the food. The namesake poutine buries fries under caramelized onions, onion rings, red onion, green onion, and a roasted-garlic onion mayo, a single plate that finds half a dozen uses for one ingredient. The Sweet Onion Burger stacks crispy and caramelized onions over Angus beef with Swiss and garlic aioli. The kitchen took its own name as an instruction, and that habit of a repeated house signature runs underneath a Wortley Village menu far broader than the name lets on.

That breadth has a backbone, and it is Greek. The Chicken Souvlaki Platter is the clearest read on the kitchen: skewered grilled chicken with lemon roasted potatoes, rice, tzatziki, warm pita, and a Greek salad of tomato, feta, kalamata olives, and oregano. Pork souvlaki runs the same plate with skewered pork, and the Gyro Pita Meal folds gyro meat, tomatoes, and onions into pita with fries and salad alongside. The Greek Bowl lets a diner build from chicken, gyro, or falafel over rice and Greek potatoes, finished with tzatziki, feta, and kalamata. The showiest of the Greek dishes is the Saganaki: kefalograviera fried and set aflame with a squeeze of lemon, carried to the table still burning.