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| - Found this little gem from BlogTO and of course after checking out the many positive reviews from Yelp, wanted to check this place out definitely after a long day of work! This place is far from downtown, east of Queen St E and DV but easy to find parking. A small restaurant, sits at most 24 people in either 2-seats tables or one large 6-seats table. We saw a lot of people do take-out on a Sunday night, so definitely popular for the area. The open kitchen and dark and eclectic decor makes it seem like a young hip restaurant.
We got greeted by a young eager guy who was able to describe the sizes of the pieces--which come in either small or large. We ended up ordering the small White Pie ($16) and small Sweet Corn Pie ($16). I was hoping for the Hawaiian but they seem to not have that tonight.
I don't know whether or not it was because I was tired from work or we were both really hungry, but I felt our two small pizzas took way too long to arrive at our table. Maybe 20 minutes? I was going to give this place the benefit of the doubt but in my opinion, pizza shouldn't take that long to cook, especially in an extremely hot pizza oven, which averages 450-500 deg F, but the customers beside us that arrived after we finished our pizzas seemed to get their pizzas in under 10 min. Maybe they were busy with take-out orders?
The pies were definitely tasty and flavourful but not the best ones I've had due to a few flaws. The crust is for sure original--thick and super crispy with cheese. The inner part of the pie was very doughy and some may even say undercooked but I actually like doughy pies so not a problem for me. The Sweet Corn Pie had corn beschamel sauce, loads of cheese, smoked bacon and some sweet chilis on top. Overall a good flavour combination but I was expecting an intense sweet corn flavour, especially from the beschamel. Most of what I could taste is cream and cheese (from the beschamel), and little bits of corn and chilis every other bite. I'd suggest to the chefs to try and get more corn flavour in there. I mean if you are advertising Corn, I'd better be getting lots of corn flavour!
I liked the White Pie better. Loads of mozzarella and ricotta cheese, well done carmelized onions and arugula on top. This is the first pie I thought that was too much stringy cheese but with the sweet carmelized onions and the bitter sharp argula on top, I liked this balance in flavours. But again, the inside part of the pie dough was undercooked. The crust was done the same, crispy, cheesy and very greasy.
They offered us a free Italian chocolate pudding. Super sweet, creamy, rich chocolate with salt on top. The salt really made it. A very nice dessert.
One annoyance I have to mention. I noticed other tables were getting a bottle of some hot sauce. When I asked a server about it, he said it was their signature honey hot sauce. So I asked if I could try it. He squeezed some into a small container instead of bringing the entire bottle. I didn't say anything because he brought it as we were finishing our last two pieces of pie but how rude, can't even bother bringing us the entire bottle. What, you think I'm going to eat it all or steal it home? This left a bitter taste in my mouth in terms of their service. Both servers try hard to be nice but I felt service was lacking and did not match up to the food. Perhaps I'll just get take out next time and not leave tip for dine-in.
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