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| - This is a restaurant that could be used for a formal date, but is best suited for casual to business casual dress, and very utilitarian. Just eat if you must, and leave.
I ordered a Hawaiian pizza, as the staff said that although I might get the toppings on a traditional pizza, north American-style pizza is being sold here. I asked for some hot peppers on it also as I love and tolerate very hot.
I can tell that my pizza would have been excellent but it was absolutely killed with hot spice like real suicide wings. It might have been one of the best pizza's ever if they didn't murder it.
My girlfriend ordered a pasta with Alfredo sauce, which the server said was an option. It arrived in red sauce, as the menu-stated. She decided to gamble and try it. She didn't like it. So she tried my pizza, but couldn't eat that either over it being so spicy hot (although she likes hot too.)
I tried her pasta. The sauce was like tomato juice, not sauce. Tasted more like pizza sauce. It was bland, watery, warm, and actually just CRAPPY. That plate of pasta was over $20. I would have been happier with those $1.50 boxes of pasta with the yellow powder... you know the ones I'm talking about.
We ordered 2 house white wines. I know - verboten with red stuff, but I really just wanted it. We were served 2 glasses of Pinot Grigio that tasted like the bottle had been sitting uncovered in a fridge for weeks.
The child who initially served the table was very polite, as was the adult server. The warm bread and butter was also a nice touch. The place was clean and under different circumstances the place might have been my go-to. By "circumstances" I mean food and service.
When the time came to ask for the bill, I simply could not raise the server who was overlooking the whole restaurant. After a solid 20 minutes of waiting, with plates that I had deliberately piled up in front of me at the table to get attention, I walked up to the bar to cash out. He was texting away on his phone. The waiter had to get the cook/ owner to cash me out because apparently he didn't have cash privileges. So more waiting behind a walk-in pizza order.
No one was interested if we liked our meal, even with all of the left overs in the plates, and the owner didn't seem to know any pleasantries like thank you, etc.
Normally I would leave a $0.10 tip or something to make sure that they understood that I wasn't happy - not cheap. But this time I just withheld tip altogether. One was totally undeserving.
And for a personal pizza, a plate of pasta, 2 glasses of wine, the grand total was $64.24. That bill should have been in the $45 neighbourhood, tops, for what we got. It would have been much better spent elsewhere.
As a side note, I told my Godfather about this experience. He lives in that neighbourhood and knows all these places on the Danforth from years back. He likes to eat out frequently, had dealings once with the same very identifiable owner once, who showed the same ignorance, and hence he never returned. Too bad for Gerrard Spaghetti & Pizza House because my Godfather can eat.
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