Aren’t happy endings the best? When renovations and rent hikes forced Ray’s Lebanese Cuisine out of Scotia Square Mall’s food court last March, he found a bigger, brighter new spot in Burnside to serve up the award-winning eats that he’d been dishing out to the downtown lunch crowd for 31 years. Last Friday, after a summer of getting his footing in the new neighbourhood, Ray Khattar had his grand opening at 75 Akerley Drive, feeding over 500 eager diners and doling out celebratory cake and desserts. Here’s a photo we snapped while celebrating the new beginning for the friendly face behind the legendary falafel and heaping shawarma platters.
This article appears in Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2014.
Cheers to Ray. He’s got a captive audience of people who want a decent alternative to deep fried cardboard and pink slime.
Jeers to the myopic Powerpoint jockeys who hounded him out of his last location. Here’s hoping your so called shopping plaza gets the rolling tumbleweeds and cricket noises you so richly deserve.
Really miss his eats and getting to his new location is difficult. So glad though he landed on his feet and doing well. Burnside gets the cheer and Scotia Square gets the jeers.