Gino’s Pizza

Will concur with the first review. Wanted to like Ginos because the one in Malton is awesome especially it’s slices which are nice and crispy and über tasty. I ordered the pep, mush and gr pepp pizza here and what I got looked quite promising but failed to deliver big time. The ingredients were all there in good quantity, all reasonably baked in, but the taste was bland and yucky from the start. The crust was light-​crispy and nice, but the sauce was plain disgusting, the green peppers a few weeks old and slimy (though nicely cut up) and the entire thing just a mediocre pizza misadventure you’d come to expect from those old style conveyor ovens (note: mind you, I’ve had some awesome pizzas from those like Reginos, but mostly crappeola from those style of ovens). I kid you not when I say that a frozen pizza would not taste any different from what I received on this day. I felt the servers were nice, but –despite their close attention to my pizza, which was partly due to lack of customers — their pizza sucks big time and needs some major overhaul and it’s likely in the equipment and ingredient end of things more than labour. I’m sure this location skimps out big time. The sauce was much worse too than the Malton location and the entire pizza tasted radically different in the worst way possible. I thought Gino’s would wish to keep their consistency the same across their locations for competitive reasons but I guess that is not the case. Gino’s HQ needs some TLC for this poor location because at this point, I would not accept food from them even if it were free. Sorry.

After I moved to North York in 2011, I had seen a lot of restaurants and take-​out places I wanted to try. Truth be told, driving through the Bathurst and Steeles intersection, I always wanted to try Gino’s Pizza. It was on the corner, the yellow sign was inviting and it had a joint place with Wing Machine. I know, right? Living in Waterloo during my university days at Laurier over a decade ago, I always ordered a pie from Gino’s Pizza. From what I could remember, It was a fantastic pizza and it tasted absolutely delicious. I wanted to rekindle that experience again now in Toronto. Our allegiance is to the mighty Domino’s Pizza but hey, gotta check out the alternatives, eh?
When we entered there was a worker waiting for business. We checked out the flyer menu and there was a special. 1 Large pizza with 3 toppings, 1 sauce and 2 cans of pop for $ 13.99. Not too shabby! We jumped on it and ordered a «Royal» Pizza (pepperoni, green peppers and mushrooms), Garlic Parmesan Sauce and 2 Schweppes Ginger Ale. When he cashed us out he said that it was cash only. Ummm… there is an Interac sign on the door. He said the machine was broken. Oookay. So we paid cash. He said it would be about 10 minutes.
Pizza came out in time, got the sauce and pop. The worker was smiley and nice and wished us on our way. Got to our dinner table, I opened the box and looked in. Kinda flat pizza and the toppings were neat and not loaded. I took a slice and it the crust looked chewy. I took a bite… blahhh… boring! The crust tasted a bit undercooked and the pizza was not great tasting. Geez, even 241 is better than this place. I was not impressed at all. However, what was amazing was the GARLIC PARMESAN sauce. When I dunked the pizza in, it enhanced the flavour 10 times. It was a little bit more enjoyable after that.
Well, my Waterloo Gino’s taste has been shattered. I am probably not going to go here again and just stick to my Domino’s loyalty. The Gar Par sauce was fabulous to kick the taste of the totally blah pizza. I had to try it out and I am happy that I did so I don’t keep on wondering. Unfortunately, I couldn’t rekindle with Mr Gino. 2 stars only!