Toronto Pizza - August 2015

And here it is - the long awaited official review of the pizza of  the beautiful city of Toronto, by none other than your official Pizza Blogger.
 

We'll start off with "Pizza Pizza"  This was on the main road as we walked from the hotel over to the center of town.  We had seen it earlier and pegged it as a place we needed to try once lunch time hit, so we went for it.

 We came in and checked out the goods. It seemed like a typical "chain" type of place in style, but different than American chains like Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, you can get slices at the chains in Toronto, so that's kinda cool.   Below you can see some pictures of the restaurant, menu, etc.

And here it is - the actual slice!  We were stuck by the interesting presentation, which turned out to be the standard in Toronto - 1 slice, cut in half and served on a triangular plate. (pictured below)

The pizza itself was nothing real special. It was somewhat bland, a bit oily tasting and nothing real special.  BUT I will say that it was serviceable pizza.  I could live with it if I needed to.  It just was definitely a chain pizza.  I will say that they served it at a good temperature and it was very easy to eat, and I could not complain about the size of the servings.

  

The actual restaurant itself was quite small, only 3-4 stools to sit at if you are lucky, but they did have an outside eating area, and the weather was great.  So I sat outside and enjoyed my slice.

AND DOWN THE ROAD WE WENT . . . . . . . . .. 

Next up, literally 5 minutes later was "Mamma's."

 Now this pizza was exactly the same as Pizza Pizza.  Layout of the restaurant was similar, presentation of the slice was the same, the slice tasted the same and it again, was cut in half.  There was really nothing that set this slice aside from the other place.

 

And then there was the pizza at the Blue Jays Game - no doubt one of the famous Toronto Pizza chains, Pizza Nova - official sponsor of Blue Jays baseball and the Rodgers Centre. A blessing in disguise came my way when they were out of cheese slices at the moment.  I "Settled" for a meat lovers slice - which was actually quite tasty.  The toppings made the slice stand out from the other ones, but other than that, the pizza was really the same. 

Interesting occurrence as they forgot to give me change for my slice - I had a $20 bill and then we got side-tracked and they never gave me the change.  I walked away and came back about 3-4 minutes later and told them what happened.  They trusted me (or remembered it happening) and gave me my change right back.  A+ for being nice.  F- for math.  :-)

And Finally, to round out the Toronto pizza experience, we made one more stop - "Mr. Pizza."  Aptly named after myself, this pizza shop was exactly like all of the other ones :-)

 

 

 Of course, i will always be jealous of anyone who gets to ride a little vehicle like this with the label of "Mr. Pizza" on it.  If anyone is looking for a Christmas gift idea for me . . . . . .

Although very similar, they went with the round plate instead of the pizza slice shaped plate.

So to round it all up, here is my general synopsis of Toronto Pizza.  It was very consistent.  Consistently bland and average.  They generally all taste the same, look the same.  Similar texture, taste, consistency, etc.  The good news is that the pizza is not terrible.  I was not offended by the pizza of Toronto.  To their credit, they do not claim to have the best pizza.  I'm very happy that they offer pizza, at various places.  It's easy to find if you are craving a slice.  

As you all know, my favorite thing about pizza is that you can eat it every day and if you go to different places or get different toppings, it can be a different meal every single time, as no two slices are really the same from place to place.  The consistency of Toronto's pizza is a good thing in some ways, because you do know exactly what you are going to get - and in a place outside of NJ or NY, fear of the unknown is usually quite high when it comes to pizza!  (yes, I am a NY/NJ pizza snob.)  I applaud the efforts of Toronto Pizza shops and appreciate the experience I had.  I will be back - Toronto is a great town.  i will likely only have pizza once or twice next time, but i will have it again.

Toronto - You are A-OK in my book!