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Stopped by the gelato window the other day while strolling through the area. This place looks pretty cool and I was excited that they were offing gelato during the summer season! However, I was seriously disappointed for a couple reasons. First, the only flavours available were of the artisan fusion persuasion - strawberry-red pepper, spicy chocolate, lemon-basil, etc. Totally awesome for all the food connoisseurs out there, but I would have expected at least one classic flavour (choc/strawb/vanilla) for the non-adventurous types. If you like the fancy flavours though, then this probably isn't a drawback for you. I took a chance on the mango-lemon. My husband got the cinnamon-espresso and said it tasted like a Tim Horton's ice capp. Both flavours would probably have been fine except that the gelato was completely hard, dried out, grainy, and clearly not fresh. Not sure if the temperature gauge on the freezer unit needed to be adjusted or what... but the server had a lot of difficulty scraping the stuff from the pan into the little cup. It was pretty awkward to watch him struggle with a clearly sub-par product. Also, it was served with wooden forks, which was also pretty strange and made for an awkward eating experience. We didn't even finish ours, we tossed it out at the nearest trash can. If you want a proper gelato experience I would recommend G for Gelato just a couple blocks away at Jarvis and Adelaide. Maybe they could give the Pastizza crew some lessons on how to do it right ;)
As for the regular dining experience, I haven't sampled a meal there yet, but hope to do so in the near future and hope for better results :)
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