One of the first things on the to do list when relocating to any new city : the quest for decent Za.
Call it pizza, a slice or pie: all roads lead down the same path.
In a town the size of Toronto (2.8M) one would think that it's a slam dunk...
The usual suspects of Yelp, Chowhound, and Craigslist all point to one gaping whole the size of Italy. The question looms: where oh where do I find such a seemingly simple culinary request?
I have a list of the don't bother: Pizza Pizza (the Mediterranean arrived with Broccoli) Madanto was a solid C- as a quick slice in hand as I dashed down the street last week. Dino's was less than memorable but worth a second try in the near future. Amico's with a decent online shopping/ordering experience is supposedly en route as I type.
Pizza is subjective. Subjective as art really. I sort of consider a good pizza an art form. Not a Degas or a Cezanne but more Picasso. Interpretive of crust as the medium, much like oil or acrylic begs a certain appetite pizza is really no different. The creative process for me is typically a thin crust with pepperoni or a true Marguerite with nothing but basil and fresh mozzarella. Purist pursuits really.
The great thing about the simple beauty of a simple pie is the sanctity of simplicity meeting fresh ingredients but I digress into food porn.
The other problem with ordering pizza to be delivered is well...it's delivered. Pizza should be eaten properly ala fresh from the oven directly to my plate (preferably not paper plate please) but alas kids change the pizza equation. So delivery it is.. but when it arrives it will come out of it's cardboard coffin and into a hot oven if just to burn off that awful delivery box after thought.
Yes, I have probably spent too many years in California but Chicago, another great pizza town is part of my lineage too. I can't even bring up the Michelangelo of pizza cities, NYC so I will stop this train now.
T-minus 35 min and counting. Oh...music to my ears, the door man has called to alert a delivery person. Keep your fingers crossed..btw any suggestions forth coming always welcome.
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