Koozina Mediterranean Cuisine

Two people at the same table rarely want the same thing, and Koozina is built for exactly that table. One diner can stay on the Greek side — chicken souvlaki off the grill, a gyro, a Greek salad — while another goes Levantine with shawarma, kafta and a plate of hummus, and a third assembles a meal from falafel and dips without feeling like an afterthought. The menu reaches across the Mediterranean wide enough that nobody has to negotiate. A family kitchen on Ontario Street South in Old Milton, Koozina has worked this stretch of Main Street since 2013, trading on recognizable staples and clean ingredients rather than novelty.

The grill and the platter carry the menu. The Mixed Grill Dinner is the broadest first order — shawarma, souvlaki, kafta and grilled meats gathered onto one plate, the whole kitchen in a single pass — while the Chicken Souvlaki Dinner is the cleaner read, grill and rice and salad with nothing to hide behind. Gyros and kafta anchor the dinner plates, and the same proteins fold into pitas for a quicker order. When a group would rather share than manage four separate dinners, the Ultimate Platter does the work. Sides and extra skewers let a plate be built up rather than swapped out. There is a spicier lane in the Pepperfire Chicken, and a Canadian crossover the kitchen clearly enjoys: Shawarma Poutine, fries loaded with shawarma instead of the usual gravy-and-curds routine.