Demetre's Family Eatery

The Stratford table that cannot agree on dinner has a standard answer, and has had one for years: Demetre's Family Eatery, where a craving for souvlaki and a craving for fish and chips can settle in at the same table without anyone giving ground. This is the family-owned eatery on Ontario Street that solves the mixed-table problem — the grandparent who wants liver and onions, the child who wants a burger, the diner who came for moussaka — by simply cooking all of it. What keeps that range from scattering is the Greek thread the kitchen runs through nearly everything.

That thread is homemade tzatziki and feta, and it turns up well beyond the obvious plates. It is folded into Demetre's Burger, where feta and house tzatziki sit on an otherwise straightforward patty; it dresses the char-broiled Chicken or Pork Souvlaki, served over rice with Greek salad; it arrives beside the lightly breaded calamari and inside the Gyros on a Pita. The deeper Greek dishes anchor the menu — moussaka layered with potato, eggplant, zucchini, and ground beef under béchamel; spanakopita wrapped in phyllo; a Greek salad built on feta and a house dressing. The tzatziki is made in house and turns up often enough to read as a signature rather than a condiment. Even breakfast carries the accent: order the spinach-and-feta omelette, or the Opa Greek-style omelette with feta, tomato, and green pepper, and the same hand is on the plate.