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| - The boyfriend and I wanted to try a more true Italian / authentic pizzeria experience. So far our pizza experience has been Magic Oven, Pizza Hut, Boston Pizza, 2 for 1, Mama's Pizza, RichTree pizza and a ton of Pizza Pizza. We have been anticipating the opening of this restaurant about a month prior to its opening.
The restaurant's ambiance and decor are beautiful, it's kind of like a loft feeling, spacious, high ceilings and a kind of panoramic view of Queen St. The servers are not your white blouse, black pants kind of servers, which adds to the feel of the restaurant. Very nice service too I must add.
We ordered the fixed price menu, (refer to the picture I uploaded) for $25 and drinks on top. Their antipasti was good, we really enjoyed the Prosciutto but I really felt that this entire course was unnecessary. Usually eating these small appetizer/tapas type dishes and drinking wine is quite the experience, but then when the two huge pizzas come, it's just too much and the appetizer doesn't lead into the main dish very well.
We ordered a margarita and the fungi pizza, which is a mushroom vegetarian pizza. The pizza crust was very good, the taste and consistency reminds me of fresh naan. The margarita pizza had these two basil leaves that looked very nice but was very disappointing in taste. I didn't taste any flavour, it felt like there's not much more that was added to the pizza other than the mozarella balls. (I love cheese pizza, but this one was just lacking).
The fungi misti (mushroom) pizza was much better with the earthy taste of mushrooms, but it still felt like it was missing something... perhaps some more spice or hot sauce. There was just too much pizza too, the both of us ate the equivalent of 1 pizza.
The last course, I don't even think I can review that, we were stuffed and then they serve us salad. We didn't even want to touch it. When it comes down to it, go here for the pizza and maybe a glass of wine, but stop at that. Or do take-out - the pizza even tastes great after being microwaved as left-overs, which is not something I can say about most of the pizzas I've tried.
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