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| - So there's been lots of hype about this place, I've been hearing that it's the best pizza in Toronto voted this year, blah blah blah so naturally I wanted to try it, because I'm a sucker for thin crust woodburning oven pizza.
Came here with a large group yesterday and we tried enough of the menu (maybe had close to 12 dishes) that I think that I can speak to most aspects of the menu. So here we go:
Atmosphere: It has a very comfortable yet modern feel. White stucco walls, blue tiles on the ceiling, wooden tables, steel ducts on the ceiling. They have along bench against one wall. It's a very casual third date kind of place. It's not a romantic, candles on the table or even flowers on the table, intimate, dimly lit spot. It was very loud inside- to the point where we had to yell at each other to hear one another across the table. I think the high ceiling created a bit of an echo throughout the entire restaurant. When you superimpose music onto an echo, it makes it very difficult hear people you're having dinner with or getting to know new people. Hence not an ideal first date place.
Food: We had a bunch of appetizers. First off, the Arancini rice balls are not nearly as good as the one served at Libretto or Enoteca Sociale - its night and day-you can't even compare them. These were just disappointing. They had a nice crust on them however the inside was like all glutinous rice with no cheese, just very dense and heavy rice. The rice was yellow but it lacked any flavour, just bland. It was also served on a bed of arugula rather then a tomato sauce so it was also dry. I would definitely not recommend this at all.
The pizzas: I think we had seven or eight pizzas on the table including their signature Double-decker pizza and their panzerotti. Immediately you can see that the pizzas themselves were really small; if I'm paying $16 for pizza, I don't want to see any white plate underneath the pizza. The other thing that you could notice right away is the distribution of the ingredients was not equal across the surface of the pizza. Multiple pizzas that we ordered had the toppings almost completely all one side. My SO and I thought this is very strange. Similarly the crust was uneven, thicker on one side, paper thin on the other. The crust itself was much thicker and drier than a soft, flavorful, Napoli style crust. This was almost, and I hate to say it, kind of reminded me of Pizza Pizza crust only because at the end of eating several different slices of pizza, I just had lots of crust leftover on my plate that I just couldn't eat (and didn't want to eat). Whereas normally I would eat the entire pizza including crusts. The panzerotti we ordered also had a huge crust around the edge so that when people are cutting into it you only really had one bite with filling/topping and two bites of dry thick crust. Overall, pizzas were underwhelming and def not the best pizza in Toronto. I didn't find the flavours well balanced and the pizzas were poorly executed. Oh, and the signature two decker pizza was overkill. I wouldn't get this again.
The upside is that everybody really enjoyed the appetizers. The rapini was wonderful and beautifully presented; they weren't over salted, great texture and flavor to them. We also had an antipasto platter with all of the usual ingredients; everything seems fresh and it also included handfuls of arugula on the side and a few different slices of cheese. These warm olives were excellent as well, flavorful and a very nice variety of olives. We also got a pasta (gluten free) that was average at best.
Service: was pretty good. She misheard is a few times, but was otherwise attentive. We actually had to go up to the bar to order which was unconventional, perhaps because it was too loud or we couldn't get her attention. We got all our food at the same time which is great. We got pitchers of ice water which is always way easier than flagging down wait staff for a refill.
Other: It was half full when we got in at 8pm, I never noticed a line-up here so wait times are probably not an issue.
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