Review:
This was clearly not their specialty, but I’ve certainly had worse. This tasted like a middle of the road frozen pizza. I will say that I appreciated the pepperoni being on top of the cheese.
Rating:
5.5/10
Le Retro – Pizza
Le Retro – Poutine
Review:
This featured hand-cut fries. They were perfectly cooked. There were ample cheese curds. The gravy was pretty flavourful. I wish there was a little bit less because it softened the fries a bit (plus this was delivery).
Rating:
7.0/10
Le Retro – Burger
Review:
This was a typical “chip truck” type of burger, even though it’s from an actual restaurant. It was a little small. The patty was densely packed, very well done. It did have a lot of processed cheese, which was nice. The vegetables were ok, though the lettuce wilted a little bit. The bun was a standard sesame bun. It was nicely toasted.
Rating:
5.8/10
Crust and Crate – Pizza
Review:
The crust was nicely crisp. I would have liked a little more char on it. The sauce was not particularly flavourful, but it wasn’t off-putting at all. The other topping were all of reasonably high quality.
Rating:
7.5/10
Hog’s Back Restaurant – Poutine
Review:
This poutine featured what seemed like frozen fries (it was weirdly hard to tell). They were probably the weakest part of the poutine as they were a little pasty. I actually like shredded cheese poutines. Some people like saying it’s sacrilegious, but the melted cheese combining with the gravy to become a completely different sauce appeals to me. With that being said, I still like to have some solid bits of cheese in my poutines and this one lacked in that department. The gravy was my favourite part. It looked light, but tasted like a combo of beef and chicken gravy.
Rating:
6.1/10
Hog’s Back Restaurant – Burger
Review:
The patty was rather plain and lacked any interesting character. It was covered with some processed cheddar. I liked that it had iceberg lettuce. The bun was a little dry, but I still appreciated that it was toasted.
Rating:
5.9/10
Patio Vidal – Pizza
Review:
The pizza thick and heavy but was deceptively light, especially the puffy crust, though the base was a little dense. The sauce was pleasantly sweeter than I expected. The toppings were under the cheese, which I don’t normally love, but benefited this pizza, because the cheese crisped up really well. This is not a pizza place, but this was serviceable.
Rating:
6.6/10
Patio Vidal – Poutine
Review:
This poutine came with a great amount of cheese curds. The gravy was a nicely salty beef gravy. The fries were probably the weakest part of this poutine. I liked that they were somewhere between a julienne and a standard cut but they were about 10% undercooked. If they were 100% cooked, this poutine would have scored much higher.
Rating:
6.7/10
Patio Vidal – Burger
Review:
This came with 2 approximately 1/4 lb patties (maybe a little smaller). They were a little too densely packed, but cooked well done. They were topped with a generous amount of crispy bacon and slices of processed cheese. There was way too much tomato on there, which I easily remedied. The bun was a pretty standard sesame seed bun that was nicely toasted. I was given a choice of BBQ sauce or chipotle mayo and I opted for the latter, which proved to be a good decision.
Rating:
6.7/10
Zaytoun Pizza – Pizza
Review:
This was a bit of a surprise. While the pizza presented as an Ottawa-style pizza, it had quite a few distinguishing factors that separated it from most others. The first was that the majority of the toppings were on top of the cheese. I typically get sausage and onions, but they do not carry pork products, so I got ground beef, which was quite good. The sauce was slightly more herbaceous than most. The most surprising aspect of this pizza was the crust, which was thick, but much lighter and less doughy than it appeared. It made it a much more pleasant eating experience.
Rating:
6.9/10