Layered penne under ground beef, bechamel, and melted mozzarella is not the dish most people go looking for at a Lebanese grill, and at Souq it sits a few lines below the shawarma. The Bechamel Pasta is the first clue that this Howard Avenue kitchen in Windsor cooks wider than its category suggests; Jwaneh, grilled chicken wings dressed in garlic sauce, is the second. Between those two runs a menu that travels from dips and salads through charcoal skewers, bowls, wraps, and shareable platters. The effect is less a single-order counter than a generous table — the kind of place where a group that cannot settle on one thing still finds everyone a plate.
The dips are the foundation. Hummus and Baba Ghanoush, the charbroiled eggplant pureed with tahini and lemon, and a Garlic Dip of pureed fresh garlic that doubles as the condiment for everything off the grill; Fattoush and Tabouli to brighten the table; grape leaves and a velvety lentil soup for the plant-based corner. The charcoal does the heavy lifting from there. Shish Tawook, beef shish kabob, and Kufta of ground beef and lamb each arrive two skewers to a plate, while the Mix Grill brings all three at once with garlic, pita, pickles, turnips, and rice or fries. Shawarma — chicken, beef, or mixed — turns up three ways: rolled into a twelve-inch wrap, spread across an entrée plate, or built into the Shawarma Fattoush Bowl, where the salad carries hummus, pickles, and a choice of protein into one full meal. For anyone who wants the grill in a single hand, there are Arayes, seasoned ground beef baked into fresh pita.
Souq has the grill staples, but it also has Bechamel Pasta, Jwaneh, Kubbah, Moussaka, dips, salads, bowls, wraps, and platters. That breadth gives first-time diners more than one good route through the menu.
The restaurant's pledge emphasizes scratch-made preparation, fresh ingredients, Ontario meats, Canadian dairy, Canadian grains, seasonal Canadian produce, and Canadian eggs. The identity reads as local and hands-on rather than generic.
The weekday Lunch Plate gives Souq a clean midday use case, while Mix Grill, family-style platters, dips, rice, fattoush, pickles, turnips, and pita make the restaurant easy to scale for shared meals.
Souq is useful when the bill has to stretch without reducing the meal to a single wrap. Bowls, wraps, and the weekday Lunch Plate give solo diners a lower-commitment path, while larger platters turn skewers, dips, rice, fattoush, and pita into a shared spread.
The room has a clear Lebanese spine: hummus, Garlic Dip, Baba Ghanoush, Fattoush Salad, Tabouli Salad, grape leaves, Shish Tawook, Kufta, and Jwaneh all sit together on the menu. The pledge language and community work make the identity feel lived-in, not decorative.
Souq makes the most sense when people share. Mix Grill, Chicken Platter, family platters, hummus, Garlic Dip, fattoush, rice, pickles, turnips, and pita create an easy group order with enough choice for different appetites.
The menu travels well because many of its strongest items are self-contained or shareable. Shawarma Wrap, Falafel Wrap, bowls, Lunch Plate, dips, sides, and platters all fit pickup, delivery-style meals, or dinner at home.
Souq works for family meals because the menu lets people spread out without splitting into separate restaurants. Wraps and bowls cover quick individual orders, while fattoush, hummus, garlic, rice, grilled skewers, and shareable platters give groups familiar pieces to assemble plates.
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