Eddy's Mediterranean Bistro

Halal-certified meat is the through-line at Eddy's Mediterranean Bistro, a Lebanese-Mediterranean kitchen on Tecumseh Road East in downtown Windsor. Chicken and beef shawarma, kafta, and the BBQ Platter all come off the same grill program, and that single decision — where the meat starts before it reaches the skewer — sets the terms for everything else on the menu. The dining room is small and family-run, with reservations on offer and dine-in, takeout, catering, and delivery all running out of the same kitchen.

The Platters section is where group ordering anchors. BBQ Platter and Family Platter put a shared centre on the table, with grill entrees — Mixed Grill, Chicken Shish Tawook, Beef Shish Kabob, Kafta — stepping in when individual diners want a focused plate. The appetizer section reads as a Lebanese-style spread on its own: Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, Falafel, Spinach Pie, Cheese Sambusik, Manakeesh, Vegetarian Grapeleaves, Spicy Potatoes. The soup-and-salad bracket runs Lentil Soup, Fattoush Salad, Tabbouleh Salad, and Greek Salad. The wraps section is built for the practical lunch order — Chicken Shawarma Wrap, Beef Shawarma Wrap, Falafel Wrap — with Lentil Soup or Tabbouleh as the sturdy side. The entree slate steps outside the Lebanese centre for Salmon, Shrimp, Lamb Chops, and Cod when the table wants a different kind of plate. Desserts close cleanly with Baklava and a broader bench of Chocolate Fantasy Cake, New York Style Cheesecake, and Tiramisu.

The structure of the menu carries Eddy's read on its own job. Platters and the appetizer section work as a shared Lebanese-Mediterranean spread when a table sits down together; the wraps section and the soup-and-salad bracket cover the weekday lunch lane and the takeout pickup without diluting either side. Halal certification is not a footnote at Eddy's; it threads through the grill items the menu is built around. The decision is identity rather than ornament. The Lebanese centre holds the gravity, with Italian-leaning desserts and a few Mediterranean fish-and-grill entrees sitting comfortably at the edges.

The Hammoud family came to Windsor from Tyre, on the southern Lebanese coast, and brought a working family kitchen with them; local reporting credits Eddy Hammoud as the owner-operator of the bistro, which opened in 2014 and has run from the same Tecumseh Road East address since. The family's reach now stretches east to Tabouli by Eddy's in Tecumseh, a sister concept that keeps the cooking in the family while the Windsor bistro stays focused on the dine-in, takeout, and catering modes that built it. The dining room here seats roughly thirty, the kind of footprint that puts the kitchen and the front of house within sight of each other. Reservations are available; walk-ins are welcome for lunch wraps and pickup orders.

Twelve years in, Eddy's reads as a working downtown Windsor kitchen rather than a destination one — useful for a weekday lunch wrap on the way back to the office, a Friday platter ordered for a table of six, a Sunday family meal that ends with Baklava, a catering job that needs to feed a crowd without losing the family-kitchen handprint. The grill program holds the centre; the appetizers, the salad bracket, and the wrap lineup give the menu enough versatility to meet a Windsor table on its own terms. The halal certification, the family roots, and the dual dine-in-and-takeout rhythm hold across every one of those uses.