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| - I keep walking by Bywoods and the interior decor looked comforting and casual, but it's never busy. We finally decided to give this place a try since we had a voucher for a free margarita pizza.
Some patrons really pushed the idea of casual. I was in jeans and nice shoes, but a few tables over a bunch of young women were wearing sweat pants. Jeans are fine, sweat pants looked out of place.
Beer and wine list were simple. They were out of my first choice, Erdinger, so I settled on some Flying Monkeys Stereovision instead. It was pretty early in the evening (7:30) on a Friday, I was surprised to see that they were out of some of their beer selection already.
The pizza arrived pretty quickly, and it was saucy and cheesy but rather bland. The sauce tasted store bought and it wasn't very impressive. It was a fine appetizer to split between two people, but really it was a rather small flat bread. There are far better pizza offerings available on this short stretch of St. Clair.
I ordered the fish of the day, a small strip of fresh salmon served over fingerling potatoes in a lemon based sauce with olives. At least, that was the description. The salmon was properly cooked, not over done, with a nice crust finish. The sauce was flavourless - no hint of lemon, shriveled up black specks that must have been the olives. It was nicely plated but a disappointing choice.
My partner had the penne pasta with chorizo sausage. The sauce and chorizo were flavourful but the pasta noodles were ordinary in flavour.
Portion sizes were adequate and we didn't feel up for dessert. Service was friendly and attentive, but we won't be back. There are many other great Italian options within a 4 block radius that are similar in price point, we'll stick to those.
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