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!

MEAT LOVER FEAST!!

WHAT YOU NEED
1 lb Refrigerated Dough
1 tbs Olive Oil
Half Cup of Fresh Mozarella Cheese
Half Cup of Fresh Ricotta Cheese (Add Salt, Egg Yolk and Pepper- to make it extra sticky)
Handful of Cherry tomatoes
Fresh Basil Leaves
Cooked or Raw red Pepper
Homemade Tomato Basil Sauce
3-4 Italian Deli Sausages
Home Made Roasted Beef (Season it, Add Rosemary, Thime, Salt & Pepper, Onion, Garlic and Olive oil- Cover it, and out it in the oven in 220 for 35- 50 mins- every 15-20 mins, check on it, bath it on its own sauce and cover again, Add BBQ sauce in the last check in time)


**if you want to**
Add extra Mushroom, chili Flakes, Olives, BACON (Because its Bacon)

MAKE IT
Heat Oven at 200 C
Spread Sauce Evenly & Don't forget to add those chunks of Tomato- They will be a nice bite surprise later
Spray Oil on Pan
IF you want, you may spread butter on the bottom of the pizza dough. it will make it extra golden and cook more evenly
Add all ingredients, as shown Below

Bake for 20-25 mins
eat it all!!!

TIPS
I recommend adding a sunny side egg on top of your slice after- the runny egg yolk is very tasty with the saltiness of the meat and veggie toppings

Pair it up with your favorite Cold Beer or Sparkling Lemonade, and you will have a Feast worth it of its own Instagram Post- I Guarantee it!

Enjoy, and don't forget to Share & Comment down Below.
See You Soon

-A

Friends, Family and Pizza – Pizzeria Libretto

Pizzeria Libretto is a great place to hang out with a group of friends or family when you want to eat great pizza. The atmosphere is fun, full of energy and loud. The music combined with overlapping conversations gives the place a charming vibe, something that reminds me of a large family dinner at home.

There were two things that immediately caught our attention. First of all, there was this:

Then, there was the open kitchen, where you could see your food getting ready. We got a table very close to that so we can observe what happens in Libretto's kitchen.

Service was excellent and very prompt, although the place was fairly busy (lunch hour). The staff was very knowledgeable and gave us a quick description of each pizza and then recommended us Thursday’s special. We got that and Prosciutto Ontario. Yes. We got two. Don’t judge us. It’s for research purposes. Don’t worry. We will also open Fitness Gems after Pizza Gems. Thursday’s special was a super juicy although it was soft and moist in the middle, so it was a direct invitation for you to drop that fork and knife, grab it with your hands, fold it and eat it. Just like home. It had a really nice kick from the spicy homemade sauce, which we loved. We were really impressed with how incredibly puffy the dough was. That, the sauce and the sausages on top gave me a very homey feeling, the same I get when I eat something homemade, fresh from the oven.

The second pizza had the same kind of puffy, soft and light dough. On top, it had something that Andrea kept describing as “tomato jam”. It was very sweet, fresh and full of flavour. And on top there was, of course, the prosciutto. Even though this might seem a very simple combination of ingredients, it had a very powerful taste. What we liked the most was the combination of textures: The puffiness of the dough, the juiciness of the tomato sauce and that fresh bite of prosciutto. Yum.

Thursday’s special was my favourite and Prosciutto Ontario was Andrea’s favourite. If you’re looking for a place to bring a large, noisy group of people, Pizzeria Libretto is it. It will definitely infuse you with good mood and positive energy. Just like a huge family dinner.

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