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| - We went to the original location of Pi Co. which was at Bay and Bloor (right in the heart of Toronto).
The process at Pi Co. worked exactly like at Blaze Pizza: you pick the dough you wanted, then the pizza sauce, cheese, and unlimited toppings for a set price. There were a good number of people dining in here when we arrived. They have two tables and some stools for dine-in, but it seemed like a lot of people opted for take-away orders.
We shared a Craft Yours Pizza. We chose a regular dough, with some Crushed San Marzano Tomatoes sauce, followed by four types of cheese -- blue cheese, goat cheese, fior di latte, and parmesan -- followed by a good helping of vegetables like basil, sun-dried tomatoes, and then bacon and ground sausage. Then our pizza was thrown into the 1,000-degree oven for 90 seconds for a classic Neapolitan pizza style.
It was a very, very quick cooking process. After paying for the pizza at the cashier and waiting just a few seconds, I saw the staff bring out our pizza from the oven, plop it into a pizza box (we asked for it to-go), and cut it up for us. Ninety seconds was incredibly fast and thus there was practically zero wait time from start to finish.
Even as I was watching the staff assemble our pizza together by throwing on the toppings that we selected, I felt that he wasn't as generous as the staff were at Blaze Pizza. I also felt that the male staff threw all of the toppings into the centre part of the pizza and didn't scatter them out evenly. This made for a potentially lop-sided pizza where not every bite had the substantial toppings to taste. (Although I could have asked the male staff to add more ingredients in if I felt like there wasn't enough, the staff at Blaze Pizza in comparison put down a lot of generous toppings without asking. The customized pizza at Blaze Pizza also costs less at $10.)
I also noted that our pizza was quite burnt in two places on the top and also on the bottom. I know that it must be hard to judge the pizza's cooking time especially since they have other orders in the 1,000-degree oven too but these were the things I noticed.
In terms of taste, I really liked the chewy thin crust of the pizza. What I didn't like were the underwhelming number of ingredients and burnt parts.
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