Sunny Saturday // Pizzeria Libretto

My friends and I headed out to the Distillery District this past sunny Saturday. I've been anticipating the Food Truck Eats event for a couple of weeks now. Good thing I ate a bit of food before I left the house, because the line up for one food vendor was 1-2 hours!! RIDICULOUS. I don't know if it was the combination of the Jazz Festival or if it was the ton of foodies out in full force ready to nom. After walking around for fifteen minutes with my starving friends, we decided it was NOT worth the wait in the blazing sun and left to eat at Pizzeria Libretto, a recommendation by Amanda and Jeff. Boy was it a good call.

According to their website, Pizzeria Libretto serves "Real Neapolitan Pizza", using the fresh, local, and natural ingredients. Pizzas are cooked in a 3rd generation, 900 degree wood burning oven, hand-made and imported from Naples, Italy. Sounds legit eh? 

They have a regular Lunch Prix Fixe menu, an amazing deal, $15 for a three course meal! Julian and I shared this one since we weren't that hungry. We started off with bruschetta: one vegetable, two meats. The vegetable bruschetta was good, the bread was toasted with a creamy goat cheese spread topped with fresh tomatoes. The highlight of the meal I would say was the beef meat bruschetta. I haven't been blown away by bruschetta considering, well it's only bruschetta, but this one was delicious. The meat, the tomatoes, and the cheese just went so perfectly together, hmmm.

{ l-r: goat cheese bruschetta, beef bruschetta }

{ Amanda's pear and walnut arugula salad }

{ Sharon's caprese salad }

The server let us know we were able to substitute the Margherita pizza for any pizza of choice (with an extra charge of a few dollars of course). Julian and I ordered the Duck Confit, Bosc Pear and Mozzarella pizza (fancy I know). The pears were sweet, a nice contrast to the very tender shredded duck meat. The dough in the centre of the pizza was a little hard to cut and not as crispy as I would like, but it was very tasty overall.

{ Julian and I's duck confit, bosc pear and mozzarella pizza }

{ Amanda's house-made sausage, caramelized onions, mozzarella, and chili oil pizza }

{ Chris' hot peppers, tomato, house-made sausage, mozzarella pizza }

{ Jeff's salami, tomato, gorgonzola, roasted red peppers, mozzarella pizza }

{ chocolate gelato }

We finished off with a very chocolatey gelato, too bad it was slightly melted. With the substituted pizza, the meal came up to $19. Incredible value for two people!




Pizzeria Libretto
221 Ossington Ave.
(416) 532-8000
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Another Sunday Brunch

My friend Nicola visited Toronto a couple of weeks ago. She said Vancouver doesn't have many cute brunch restaurants (surprising). Julian and I took her to School for a Sunday brunch!

I tried something new this time. The asparagus and cheese omelette, with a side of home fries and green salad ($13). I don't know what it is, but I don't LOVE omelettes, but I insist on ordering them when I'm in the "I-need-to-feel-heathly" mood. However, drenching it in hot sauce does make it taste better (I'm a hot sauce lova lova).

The service that day wasn't so great. Our server did not fill our waters once and we had to call her over many times to request for something, like utensils! The washrooms were plugged, so we had to trek across to street and use the washrooms in the stadium (wtf?). Even though this particular day was a miss, I will go back simply because I know their food is usually delicious. The bright side was that they have two beautiful patios. One at the front and one at the side of the restaurant, it was perfect patio weather that day.

After brunch, we headed to Queen St. West to check out some vintage stores and stopped by Nadege for a macaron treat. Hope you had a great time back in the tdot, Nic!

{ pistachio macarons from Nadge }

School of Bakery & Café
70 Fraser Ave.

Toronto, ON

(416) 588-0005

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Nadege

780 Queen Street West

Toronto, ON

(416) 368-2009

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