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| - Came to Angelo's for dinner and had a great experience.
To start, we ordered a few cocktails. My girlfriend and I ordered a Manhattan and a Negroni, and both were well made, strong, and very reasonably priced for cocktails in the downtown Toronto area.
For appetizers, we grabbed the coal fired chicken wings and the caprese salad. The coal fired chicken wings were nicely toasted and had a big pile of caramelized onions sitting on top, giving it a very sweet taste from the onions. The caprese salad was very fresh and refreshing, and tasted great.
We ordered two pizzas for the table: a margherita pizza and the goodfella pizza. The unique pizzas at Angelo's are thin crust, and fired in a huge coal oven, which give it a nice toast on the bottom of the crust. This coal fired, thin crust pizza provides a solid crust that holds up well to the sauce and toppings on top of it, without being overly chewy or crunchy or soggy and weak.
Both pizzas were delicious. I did wish that I chose to be a tad bit more adventurous with my pizza selection because they have some great looking pizzas on the menu with interesting ingredients that I'd like to come back and try.
After the pizza, we got two pastas: a pan of orecchiette, and a pan of strozzapreti. The presentation of the pastas being brought out in a pan were quite novel, and really made it feel like we were eating in the home of a close Italian friend. The orecchiette was tasty, though the pasta was a tad overcooked and underseasoned, but the sausage was such a good flavour that I let it be. The strozzapreti was delicious, where the pasta and the veal ragu were so perfectly paired that I almost finished the entire pan myself.
For dessert, I grabbed a salted caramel and pear gelato and we shared a bombolone, which is like a fried donut filled with chocolate. I'm not a big dessert guy, but I absolutely destroyed that gelato, which I am told is made in-house, and I wanted to not share that bombolone.
Overall, fantastic meal at Angelo's. I can't wait to come back and try out more of their pizzas and pastas! In addition, they have a great lounge area and/or patio, that could be a great meet-up-and-drink spot.
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