Marcello’s Pizzeria: Family style restaurant in Toronto

Good location , Group packages menus

Marcello's Pizzeria surprised me with its family oriented style. It’s the kind of place you would take your parents out for lunch/dinner on a casual event.  On the corner of Dufferin St and St. Clair Ave West, the site makes for an excellent location. They have a pleasant atmosphere, yet very simple. The staff was polite and ready to serve us promptly. 

They have a great variety in their menu such as pasta, salads, antipasti and such. They even have 4 group packages, so the place is ideal for a family meal.

Let's talk pizza now. We ordered Barese and Positano.

Barese had Italian sausages, cherry tomatoes and rapini. Apparently, we, pizza amateurs, did not know that rapini resembles broccoli quite a lot. We just thought it’s a subtle way to make us eat our veggies.

Nevertheless, Barese was a good, fresh, homemade style kind of pizza.

Positano was bursting with tomatoes and sweetness. The taste reminded me of those ripe, gorgeous garden tomatoes you only have in the summer. It was topped off with grilled chicken, although it can make for a great vegetarian pizza as well, if your family or friends prefer. 

Now…my favourite part: I think we officially found the best, largest, cheapest slices of cake in this area. I’m very curious to find out if anyone else can beat what Marcello’s Pizzeria is offering in terms of desserts.

$5 CAKE!!!

Do I have your attention now?

The cake on the left is a Milky Way Cake. Yup. That’s right. Milky Way all the way.

Does anyone remember these awesome chocolate bars from when we were kids?

It’s the first time I eat anything like this, and I think it had everything a chocolate lover could ask for: 4 layers of fluffiness, with perfect chocolate frosting in between and a caramel layer on top. It really did taste like Milky Way. Even better.  LOVED IT.  

The one on the right is a lemon cake.  I will try to describe this as well as I can: imagine eating a lemon flavoured cloud. It was fluffy to perfection; Light as air, velvety, lemony, sour, sweet, cold, so refreshing.

All in all, I would go back to Marcello’s Pizzeria when I need some sugar in my system. 

The pizza was good. The cake was phenomenal. 

Appearance: 3/5 gems; Ambiance: 4/5 gems; Service: 4/5 gems; Menu Variety: 5/5 gems; Taste & Food Quality: 3/5 gems; Price compared to Food Quality: 5/5 gems; Overall Experience: 4/5 gems; Is it the gem of the week? DEFINITELY!