I have to admit that I've been avoiding Famoso. Not because I dislike Neapolitan pizza (I actually love it) or because I'm never in The Annex (I'm there way too often for someone who doesn't live or work there). I avoid Famoso because who every heard of great Italian-style pizza from CALGARY?!?! That was my mistake.
Usually I'll get a Margherita pizza to test the waters but at Famoso I dove right in to the new Catalan pizza. A pepper based sauce, with roasted apples, spiced raisins, and pine nuts might not be the first topping combination I would come up with inventing a pizza, but it was fantastic and not too sweet. We also had the Abruzzo pizza, which I enjoyed (though not as much as the Catalan) but the large pieces of Italian sausage were just too heavy for the thin crusted pizza.
We spent a lot of time looking at their excellent dessert menu but in the end didn't order anything. Oh, don't get me wrong, things like a white chocolate panna cotta or a gelato brownie cookie sandwich looked amazing. But we were much too full.
Why too full? Because the Wednesday special was $10 off any bottle of wine. That's enough to encourage us to split a bottle on a work night. But the bottle of Valpolicella we ordered held a secret not mentioned anywhere on the drinks menu. Our bottle of wine was a full litre!
I'm sorry I doubted you, pizza chain from Alberta. We'll be back soon for more great pizza and more litres of wine!