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| - I've now had take-away and eat-in from King Slice (full pizzas made to order), but have yet to try their ready-to-go slices -- I suspect that is why I'm saying "4 star" rather than 3 or less. Ours was pretty damn excellent, while ready-to-go almost always suffers and is a poor method of judging quality.
The take-away in particular was impressive, as the good folks at King Slice made us a custom, off-menu bruschetta-style pizza for our lactose intolerant co-worker that was freakin' delicious! They diced the ingredients right then and there, and there was no extra charge for asking and receiving the extra mile.
Our eat-in experience was a learning one, as the 'za was tasty but with toppings that were a bit too chunky for our tastes. That's the thing with King Slice, though: they do everything BIG. So our arrabiata pizza had rather huge -- and extremely fresh -- chunks of jalapeno. Fine for me, as I like it hot, not so fine for my dining companions who -- although they can handle some heat -- were picking off more than half the generous offering of peppers.
No worries, though, it was still tasty and had both ladies declaring my recommendation a good one, and that we'd now found our go-to neighbourhood delivery joint.
Other notes:
This is thick crust -- I doubt they do it thin at King Slice. You can get whole wheat, but only on the large pizzas as it's pre-made and in limited quantity. The regular crust is good but could use a biiiiit more salt.
Sauce is thin but savoury, and I didn't feel like I was in want of more (which is rare for me -- I like a saucy 'za).
Cheese is very, very stringy -- a good tasting mozzarella, and they looked like they were going through bucket fulls of the stuff (our XL pizza alone probably sported a pound or more of cheese!).
Subs/custom orders are welcome: As said, we had an off-menu bruschetta, and our arrabiata subbed in eggplant for mushroom (due to a mild allergy).
Only real complaint is that for all the great food, they're lacking in the drinks department -- macrobrew beers, bottled pop and water, etc... very, very boring. It would be nice if they matched their excellent cooking with some excellent suds!
Still, it's a quibble, and their FREE DELIVERY policy means we can always order in and enjoy our own stock of fine craft beers!
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