Amato Pizza

This place has awesome sandwiches and even better pizza… not so much the salads or pasta.

A 2 hour wait from completing the order until it arrived at the door, and we live about a 5 minute drive from the restaurant. When we called after 1 hr. 15 minutes, they claimed that suddenly they got «really, really busy» and that our order just left the restaurant. 30 minutes later, no food, we called again and they claimed their delivery car «broke down».
One pasta dish was to have shrimp and scallops in a rose sauce with peppers on linguine. (Fettuccini Pescatore
Shrimp, scallops, mixed peppers and green onions in a tomato cream sauce) NOT ONE SCALLOP was in this dish. However, there was an abundance of shrimp, which is unusual in any restaurant. Still, we wanted shrimp and scallops, and we did speak to the restaurant twice on the phone so they had opportunity to inform us if they were «out» of scallops today. Disappointing.
Sandra Insulate is to have crushed hazelnuts, goat cheese, sun dried tomatoes. I guess they didn’t think we knew what hazelnuts looked like, because there were no hazelnuts, just a pile of pine nuts instead. The crushed hazelnuts in this salad give a very different and distinct flavour than a pile of whole pine nuts do. Disappointed again.
Garlic bread with cheese for $ 4.95…don’t waste your money. It looked like a small pizza with just garlic butter and cheese on it, it was way over done and burnt on the bottom. Totally unacceptable. Extremely disappointing. It was garbage. Not even the dogs wanted to eat it.
Don’t waste your money ordering from this location. Amato generally has gone way downhill in Toronto over the last 10 – 12 years, which is disappointing. I used to enjoy their food and felt the prices were reasonable for what you were getting. They can pull off a decent pizza when they make an effort.
Calling to complain at this location is pointless, the woman answering the phone barely speaks English (or so she pretends). So, they get a crappy rating to sit on the internet forever. Seems fair given after 2 hours I had such terrible stomach pains from being way past the point of hungry and then was forced to eat sub par food that I paid a decent buck for.
Another crappy restaurant in Toronto… I wish I could say it was a surprise but honestly, I’ve had more bad experiences eating out in this city than positive ones, so it doesn’t surprise me. My expectations are already pretty low given the number of bad meals I’ve been served in a restaurant or had delivered to my door, but this one was extra pathetic. Garlic bread with cheese is something an 8 year old can make and not ruin, yet a «professional» restaurant staff cannot handle it! Putting the right ingredients into straightforward dishes is also a really basic life skill, the fact that they cannot manage it really does not bode well for their future in this business.

I would literally rather sever off a limb than eat here again. delivery was over 20 minutes passed the original 1 hour predicted… when I tried to call no one answered, I called back 6 times.
When the food finally arrived the driver blamed traffic.
we ordered one rigatoni funghi and two pollo parmigiano
the bill came up to 51.00
the best part of the meal was the complimentary bread, which was basically just untopped pizza crust… cut into slices.
my pasta (rigatoni funghi) was one of the worst things I’ve ever put into my mouth, it basically tasted like bitter, buttery, watery, undercooked (not al dente, straight up undercooked) pasta, it had a foul odoor and the muschrooms were overcooked. I was so hungry that in a final attempt to salvage the meal I tried to refry the pasta in a new cream sauce but even that couldn’t save it. the filthy taste of the sauce before it was too potent.
The pasta served alongside the chicken Parmesan was only slightly better (linguini tossed in marinara sauce) and beside that were some soggy bland steamed vegetables.
all in all I was utterly repulsed by this food and that establishment should be banned from selling pasta. If you absolutely MUST eat here I’d get the pizza because the crust will probably be alright.

If I could give 0 stars I would. Terrible, terrible, service! I ordered a pizza with their convenient online order for a birthday dinner. I received an order confirmation at 6:44 pm, by 8:00 nothing, even though I was promised deliver by 7:40. When I called, no one knew what I was talking about and they were less than helpful. I suggested that maybe there was a problem with their online order service, the guy just said «yeah, maybe». I suggested he get rid of the online service from the website if it did not work. He said «okay». If I didn’t know any better I’d say the guy had no idea what was talking about. Like I said terrible service. And the pizza looked like it would be so good! The owners need to get a clue.

We ordered lunch from Amato’s yesterday and the Delivery was in decent time about 40 min. I ordered 3 mushroom soups at 4.95 each. They were like eating warm buttery watered down milk with mushrooms with really no taste but butter.
Also ordered a Chicken Pollo Parmigiana Sandwich, 2 slices of pizza doe. Very hard, tough to chew and dry. the chicken wasn’t bad for sure not the best.
All in all a very disappointing product to serve. Would not order from here again since this food was an F on my food scale.
What a waste of money.

This is where our local Amato Pizza delivery comes from, and that is what this review is based on.
This pizza is miles above the other available options for pizza delivery in our area (Diamond Pizza, Pizza Pizza, Domino’s, Amaro, 241, Free Topping PIzza, etc.).
You can just taste that the dough and ingredients are higher quality. I just wish it was more customizable, more well done on a regular basis, and that it arrived hotter! Insulated bags, anybody?
My faves:
1. «Potato Alla Cream» — the white pizza: cream, olive oil, onions, potatoes, rosemary, mozzarella & parmesan
2. «Margherita» — tomato sauce, basil, oregano & double mozzarella
3. «Barese» — tomato sauce, mushroom, onion, red peppers, garlic &mozzarella
BONUS: Mr. Rosie S.‘s fave:
4. «Carnivore» — tomato sauce, pepperoni, ground beef, bacon, mushrooms, mozzarella.
Both Mr. Rosie S. and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Bruschetta in the summer (not so good in the winter)! Loose DIY-​style! Tomato, garlic, fresh herbs & extra virgin olive oil are sent separately, then you top your own garlic focaccia yourself! Yumyumyum!

The pizza is good and look fresh :) well it was as i ate it :) But the BBQ wings. yummy :)