Pizza e Pazzi

Pizza e Pazzi 1182 St Clair Ave West 647 352 7882

This restaurant is the latest authentic Neopolitan pizza restaurant in the city. It requires special training and papers to certify the chef in preparing this style of pizza. The pizza cooks in less than a minute. It is delicious and available with many toppings.
This is a charming venue. At the front of the restaurant the natural brick walls are exposed. At the back of the dark grey walls and the large mirrors offer a sophisticated tone. We loved this place at first sight. We were warmly greeted. The attention and service was excellent.
This was a special celebration. Alex and I try to dine out weekly. We both love pizza and I promised him a pizza feast before he heads out to the Banff School Of Music next week. He plans to study, compose and play his jazz guitar for the nest 12 weeks. I can’t tell you how much I will miss him. His mother, Kathy, has just had a knee replacement less than 2 weeks ago. She did valiant duty to even attempt this outing. I don’t know how she did it. It was so wonderful to have the family together with Alex’s delightful beautiful girlfriend, Val.
While waiting for my guests to arrive I had a chance to chat with Ian, our server. We valued his wine recommendation. He also informed us of the most popular pizza and dessert choices. He told me this is a new restaurant and I could see it is thriving. All the staff is from Italy. The foccacia bread is home made and so delicious. Even though we knew we were having pizza we ate three servings of that fantastic bread. The bottles of olive oil and the balsamic vinegar are of the highest quality.
Pizza Rosse choices are prepared with a san marzano tomato base. The Margherita Verace is one of the most popular. It is served with extra virgin oil, mozzarella di buffalo dop and basil.($13.00) Diavola is topped with spicy salami, basil, extra virgin olive oil and Ontario fior di latte.($14.00) My Vegetariana featured grilled eggplant, zucchini, peppers and basil. The fior di latte cheese and extra virgin olive oil made it creamy, tasty and so delicious.($14.75) The Ai Tre Funghi Trifolati offered three kinds of wild mushrooms, pepper and fior di latte.($19.00) Napoletana is a house favorite with anchovies, black olives, mozzarella di bufala dop and basil.($14.75)
We shared a tasting of each pizza. Some of the pizzas were covered with fresh arugula. I love to eat my salad on the pizza. We all agreed that every pizza was delicious. Don’t forget to ask for the hot and spicy olive oil. It really brings out the flavors.
Pizze Bianche is prepared with a white base. Valtellina is topped with bresaola, baby arugula, extra virgin olive oil, shaved parmagiano and a splash of lemon juice and basil.($19.75)
Gamberetti e Rucola offers shrimps, arugula, cocktail sauce and extra virgin olive oil.($19.75)
Pasta dishes are also offered on the menu. Pasta Alla Carbonara is prepared with spaghetti in a creamy egg sauce with gran padano, pancetta and black pepper.($14.00)
Gnocchi, Gamberetti E Zucchine sounds so delicious with shrimp and zucchini tossed in an extra virgin olive oil and finished with a touch of san marzano tomato sauce.($!4.00)
The Tiramisu Con Fragole was served in a large stemmed glass. The strawberry puree and zambaione cream was served between layers of savoiandi biscuits topped with strawberries Yummy! It was a great evening of delicious food enjoyed with the family.