Our Rating:
1½ Fat Buddhas: Decent pizza in a noisy environment. Not worth the wait
Reasonably priced, but not cheap.
The Review:
Apparently this place is an institution among pizza fanciers in Montreal. Located in the heart of Little Italy, it is reputed to put out thin-crusted, wood-oven pizzas and authentic pastas to a thronging crowd. Well, we thought, we best try that sort of place out, then!
We arrived early on a Saturday night, around 5:30, actually. We were off to the semi-finals of the Roger's Cup tennis, and thought a good dose of pizza would see us through. It surprised us that there was already a line-up outside the place. Half an hour wait. Well, we thought, it MUST be good then, so we hung around, and used the time to peruse the limited selection of wines at the depanneur across the road to take advantage of the BYO option (or "apportez votre vin", so that would be AVV, I guess).
Finally inside, it was a noisy and hectic place with long communal tables and a somewhat bizarre inclusion of a fake tree in the middle of the dining room. The service was brisk and not altogether friendly, but the cork was out of the wine within seconds, and orders taken as quickly as a menu with 34 options of pizza and 34 options of pasta, plus other stuff, would allow. And then it was a waiting game. We knocked off the bottle of wine with only some decidedly average bread rolls to accompany, well before our meals arrived. And that has less to do with the speed at which we drink than with the waiting time.
Our dishes arrived one-by-one: gnocchi in a tomato sauce, pizza verona (with zucchini and eggplants), and a pizza napoletana (mushrooms, achovies, tomato). The gnocchi were ok, but the sauce was not too exciting. A bit thin, but reminiscent of a traditional Italian sugo. The pizza was a good size, with a crisp, thinnish base. The toppings were nothing exciting. Fairly generic tomato sauce, scattering of toppings, and light on the cheese. Really should have tried their margherita pizza, which we believe to be the true test of a pizza place. But we didn't. Oh well.
Overall the pizzas are decent. Better than other places we've tried in Montreal (granted none of them have really been pizza restaurants), but not amazingly so. Pizzas came in at around $15 each, A little less for the gnocchi. So not too bad on the wallet.
Most likely, however, we won't bother lining up for it again though. Especially in the rain.
http://www.napoletana.com/
189 Dante Street, Little Italy
1½ Fat Buddhas: Decent pizza in a noisy environment. Not worth the wait
Reasonably priced, but not cheap.The Review:
Apparently this place is an institution among pizza fanciers in Montreal. Located in the heart of Little Italy, it is reputed to put out thin-crusted, wood-oven pizzas and authentic pastas to a thronging crowd. Well, we thought, we best try that sort of place out, then!
We arrived early on a Saturday night, around 5:30, actually. We were off to the semi-finals of the Roger's Cup tennis, and thought a good dose of pizza would see us through. It surprised us that there was already a line-up outside the place. Half an hour wait. Well, we thought, it MUST be good then, so we hung around, and used the time to peruse the limited selection of wines at the depanneur across the road to take advantage of the BYO option (or "apportez votre vin", so that would be AVV, I guess).
Finally inside, it was a noisy and hectic place with long communal tables and a somewhat bizarre inclusion of a fake tree in the middle of the dining room. The service was brisk and not altogether friendly, but the cork was out of the wine within seconds, and orders taken as quickly as a menu with 34 options of pizza and 34 options of pasta, plus other stuff, would allow. And then it was a waiting game. We knocked off the bottle of wine with only some decidedly average bread rolls to accompany, well before our meals arrived. And that has less to do with the speed at which we drink than with the waiting time.
Our dishes arrived one-by-one: gnocchi in a tomato sauce, pizza verona (with zucchini and eggplants), and a pizza napoletana (mushrooms, achovies, tomato). The gnocchi were ok, but the sauce was not too exciting. A bit thin, but reminiscent of a traditional Italian sugo. The pizza was a good size, with a crisp, thinnish base. The toppings were nothing exciting. Fairly generic tomato sauce, scattering of toppings, and light on the cheese. Really should have tried their margherita pizza, which we believe to be the true test of a pizza place. But we didn't. Oh well.
Overall the pizzas are decent. Better than other places we've tried in Montreal (granted none of them have really been pizza restaurants), but not amazingly so. Pizzas came in at around $15 each, A little less for the gnocchi. So not too bad on the wallet.
Most likely, however, we won't bother lining up for it again though. Especially in the rain.
http://www.napoletana.com/
189 Dante Street, Little Italy
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