It has been 4 years since I was in the Parliament Street area. I thought big changes were about to happen for me back then. I was curious tonight to see if this neighbourhood has underwent any major additions. It looks like various shops have come and gone, though there was less businesses than I falsely recollected. This was more College and Dufferin than Queen Street West.
I passed by a pizzeria celebrating their 3rd anniversary and decided to stop in. Salt and Tobacco was laid out almost exactly like Maker Pizza with high, long communal tables with a few single seats by the wall and window. I suppose there's only so many ways you can maximize the typical tiny Toronto restaurant space.
Looking over the menu, I picked the 8" Margherita ($15). Since they didn't have the official Neapolitan stone oven, I wasn't expecting that level of pizza making. But they weren't quite as good as even Maker Pizza, which is my current standard for good (but not fussily fancy) pizza. The crust was slightly over-salted and though chewy, didn't have enough of that freshly baked dough flavour. The cheese seemed to sit a bit heavy instead of soft and gooey. Their website claimed Roman style but now defunct Lo Zingaro was crunchier. Overall, it was good pizza but not travel destination good.
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