Akropolis Pastries

Great pastries, service, and prices. Amazing freshness, the pies and pastries were worth the trip!

Popped in here around lunchtime today to grab a quick bite to eat. This place was hopping for noon on a Wednesday! I didn’t sit, but they had quite a few tables filled. I stayed away from the sweets today, of which they had a vast array. It was quite a wonderful display and very tempting. No, today I wanted something savoury, so I opted for the spanakopita; always a safe bet. The service was friendly and attentive, and the price was right. I always long for more spinach & feta filling and less dough, but this spinach pie was pretty righteous. I only wish I had bought two pieces instead of one.

Great little pastry place on the outskirts of Greektown on the Danforth. Stopped here this weekend between Irish music workshops and got a spinach pastry. It was delicious and pretty inexpensive. Only $ 3.50 if my memory serves. It was super flaky and nice and hot!
Recommended

Love going there. Best Greek pastries on the Danforth and the service is friendly and perfect. Hard to choose what to eat because everything there is very good. I love their cheese pie and their spanakopita. And the coffee is superb. You feel like you are in Greece.

We made it there for the first time after hanging out in our hood and feeling hungry, but not quite for a heavy lunch. We were welcomed with a smile and the server was very helpful while choosing what we wanted to have. There were so many good-​looking things to choose from. Yummy!
We ended up getting spanikopita (flaky spinach pie) with greek salad and baklava. The big piece of the pie was cut into six tiny pieces by a very old-​looking cutting tool, as mentioned in the previous posts. The cuts were fast and precise. Salad was flavourful as a good Greek salad is supposed to be with nice amount of oil and olives.
Baklava was very sweet and fresh and very delicious.
Since we didn’t order any drink, we got complimentary water after we asked.
We immediately fell in love with the food and service, so we expressed ourselves while on our way out and gave a promise to come and try all of the sweet pastries they are offering.
So we have been back there for other variations of baklava with nuts etc, loukoumades, custard pie and some other which names I can’t even spell :)
Afternoons and evenings it is pretty quiet there with few old Greek men here and there.
At Greekfest they had a nice booth on the street so there was even no need to go in to get a nice dozen of sugar-​dripping honey balls (loukoumades) which came in a nice plastic container to share with friends.
When you are at Pape/​Danfroth, step few steps to east to find this treasure.

Greek food is among my favorite style of food. Akropolis is a very good place to go for that, I really like the Lamb Gyros, the Greek salad, and the pita bread. I have had a lot of items of the menu here but I always get at least 1 of the three mentions things above as they are my favorite.
The only thing I did not like was the Greek style coffee, I don’t think they do coffee right. However, they do everything else really good.
I always enjoy visiting Akropolis as I am a huge fan of the big Greek appetite, they seem to eat a lot, or is it just me? In any case love the food, love the place, and like the friendly staff.
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This is a friendly and homey place. The staffs were so sweet. I tried almost all the salty type of pastries there Tyropita, Spanakopita, Spanakopita. They are so wonderful, fresh and authentic. Then the dessert pastries were great finale. Baklava made with pistachios was fantastic. I highly recommend this place to everyone. Let’s all support local Mom and pop shops!

Instant Eros.
My sons and I came to buy spanikopita as a food gift to a family we would be visiting. I ordered 6 large pieces of the flaky spinach pies and these were cut in half by hand behind the counter using an amazing old-​looking cutting implement that rocks side to side as it cuts. It looked like a one handed meza luna and I told the lovely staff so –how in Italian this cutting tool means «half moon». She said it was a family heirloom.
I mention this detail to you as evidence of the quality of the place: a place of family traditions, one that retains the relics of old ways: authentic recipes and quality, traditional ingredients.
Our pies were stacked in a box and while we waited, she offered us some free (wah?! what’s greek for holy moly?) spinach pastry roll ups to eat while we waited. Then we ordered honey balls (loukoumades). And while we relished these (these were perfect with my coffee) she came around to our table and gave us an extra loukoumades fresh from the cooker.
When we arrived by cab to the Beaches, I present our gift to our host on the curb as though it were an offering from the son of Venus herself, announcing: «We have brought spanikopita all the way from Greektown!» And there was heard a great cry of delight.
We ate them, over the moon.
Eros.

Happy Easter everyone!
Today was a fantastic day, cool breeze, and perfect weather for a flaky spinach and cheese pastry.
This was the first time I have ever tried Akropolis, my uncle’s a regular and convinced me to take some goods to go.
Their menu is focused on phyllo-​based pastires, among other tasty Greek treats.
Small place, with old Greek men in the back chewing the fat.
They also serve Greek coffee and two type of pizza; spinach with feta, and pepperoni with cheese.
Prices are fair, 1pc pastry (outstanding snack, or meal if you eat with a salad) is $ 2.75. I also bought a dozen loukoumades for $ 3.00. For anyone that doesn’t know what they are, loukoumades are golden puff fried dough bathed in syrup. Word of advice, beware! They’re so delicious and you’ll end up eating more than a dozen.
I’m sure you’ll take pleasure in this place, it’s a sweet stop along the Danforth.
Have a good day — (échoun mia kalí iméra)

Since my original review I’ve been back to Akropolis a couple times to check if I just got a bad batch of loukoumades. I didn’t. Both the texture and taste are totally off. On my most recent visit the outer shell was a little more crispy, which was nice. The taste, though, just isn’t cutting it. They’re almost inedible compared to Athen’s (
).
The tiropita really is excellent though. The filling in particular is at least as good as Athen’s.
Akropolis also has several different types of baklava. Various shapes, some with walnuts, some with pistachios, some with both. I had a triangular piece of baklava with walnuts. The flavour is nice and it had a good amount of walnuts but it could have been a little more tender in the middle

Superb Tyropita (cheese pie), made of course, with hand-​rolled phyllo. This one a little more buttery than the last few I’ve sampled, some might say a little on the greasy side, but I certainly prefer it over the too-​dry variety.
They also feature the spinach and custard-​filled types, as well as a number of other traditional dishes. The interior has the familiar scenes painted from the old country on the walls, and a more spacious dining area than a lot of similar establishments.
Akropolis also offers their own brand of ready-​made phyllo dough– from what I gather, they even sell the buttered layers already assembled to simply add your own filling at home. They seem to have a thriving commercial sector to their business, and it’s easy to see why. Next time, I’m totally going for the rolled-​and-​twisted into a swirl version. I think it might change my life.