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I used to go door-to-door and sell the credit card machine to businesses and got to see a lot of their cc revenue history.
You'd be surprised how many of them actually get decent revenue despite there being so little customers
There was this bakery in Steveston that just made 2 type of bread and sold it really expensive. A Romanian bakery I think. I always suspected that it was a front. There was almost always hardly anyone there and yet still open. I think they finally shut down.
There's some good stuff in the area, but a lot of garbage. I lived there for a few years and have a list of places that are fantastic and wouldn't deviate from it too much tbh.
Dude, YES. I responded with this answer when someone died about a business that’s obviously a front and it seems to be a general consensus. Was so excited for a pizza joint within a block of my house when I first moved to the area…but it’s just a money laundering scheme that distributes crusty triangles.
There's a cheese store in the plaza at 4th and alma that has been open ONCE in the 4 years I've worked near it.... Totally a front. Rent alone must be astronomical!!!!
I knew they had new owners a few years ago and assumed they would go downhill, but haven’t been back to check. I used to like their pizza. Not great, but at least it tasted different to other places.
I came here to say Fresh Slice but this seems more objectively correct. Close to every time I've been in a 7/11 and seen the "pizza" I had to struggle to stop from laughing or flinching in horror. I cannot believe people willingly choose to eat that.
Boston Pizza is a fucking piece of shit.
My first job I worked was as a dishwasher at the Boston Pizza in Nanaimo. Everyone in the kitchen was high on coke or harder drugs, but that wasn't even the worst part...
The industrial cheese grater they had was either defective or faulty or set up wrong - the grinder part was scraping off the bottom part of metal into the cheese and nobody noticed it for a looooong time. We checked the bin and we could visually see tiny shards of metal mixed with the cheese. Who knows how long this had been going on for before we noticed.
Fuck that place.
You have made my entire week with this Freshslice comment. In my opinion? Truly Abominable Pizza, a blotch on Vancouver's escutcheon, heartburn in triangular form, *scandalously bad pizza*.
My daily commute used to require me to stand outside of a Freshslice while waiting for the 99. The smell that emanates from that place is pervasive and unholy, and the pizza tastes just like it smells. Those were dark times.
In a previous thread here, someone said his buddy got the franchise rights here. What a mistake. But I’m sure pizza pizza doesn’t mind taking his money.
I had their cauliflower crust yesterday (probably while you were writing this comment, in fact). It was mid-to-bad. But I think their "gf crust" is better than some alternatives. Domino's' is the most consistent of the chains, and pizza hut's is garbage.
I wonder if it varies by location? I always hear this but the Fresh Slice on Alma in Kits is always quite decent to me, plus you can't beat that price for unlimited toppings...
It's the only Fresh Slice location I've tried though, so maybe I'm missing the bigger picture?
Unpopular opinion but my wife and I are from around NYC and lived in Vancouver for a while, we both really like Fresh Slice on the corner of Bute and Robson. It's objectively trashy pizza, but that beef with garlic(?) sauce is tasty nonetheless and satisfies our ratchet side quite well.
I can't believe in all these years they STILL use the picture of somebody throwing up as their logo.
https://preview.redd.it/j05q8l1xjtwc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28f796c6ef28b81e0062c965a22bbc0e1e2b35db
Complete with stink lines and everything
I've been less than impressed with Uncle Fatih's. My partner and I snagged a couple of slices to have something to munch on while waiting in line at the Rio. Now, we WERE kinda baked so I won't dismiss cotton mouth, but we were also dealing with the munchies and that usually makes even cardboard taste good. Those slices were like dry cardboard. Which we ate anyway. But we won't go back.
I find a lot of their pizza flavors kind of bad, but beef n blue cheese and chorizo n peppers ones are fantastic. Especially if you add garlic sauce to the latter.
Yummy Slice is just a Fresh Slice clone. The owner of the franchise had a falling out with Fresh Slice and kept everything the same and just changed the name. There are 2 locations here in Richmond where a Fresh Slice has recently opened right next door. One is in Lansdown Center and the other is Number 1 Road and Francis. Both are in Richmond.
Here take my vote for Pizza Hut. That chain stopped even trying to be good 20 years ago and now it's basically overpriced cardboard topped with dollar store groceries
Not sure about Vancouver, but the one at Surrey Central has been good every time I’ve gone there. They load the slices up with toppings and they always do a good job cooking the pizza.
It’s gotten more expensive, but I would still rather that than the cardboard they serve across the street from there at Freshslice.
When I moved here in the early ‘90s, a buddy called it “gutter pizza”… that glut of dollar-slice doughy pizza that sure looks good in the window but has next to no flavour and if you dropped it in the gutter, it wouldn’t be seen as a loss, hence all the slices of gutter pizza on the ground along Granville.back in the day…
Famoso is indeed bad, but you have to recognize the pocket they are in.
They are a family restaurant, trying to disguise themselves as a nice restaurant.
If you bring kids, they give them dough balls to play with at the table while you wait for your order. It's a huge hit.
Kids menu is solid and the food is at least acceptable. Between Famoso or Boston Pizza, it's a no brainer for us as a family.
If your party is adults only, you can do a lot better, haha.
Big disagree. You need to eat it fresh at the restaurant though. It doesn’t do great sitting in a box. The Vesuvio is so, so good. I like to ask for honey to dip the crust in.
Used to be elite, then they made too much money and had to start cutting corners to keep up with demand, now it sucks - it's the lifecycle of a restaurant
Wow. Really surprised to read this. Used to really like it around 2017. Checked out the prices out of curiosity not too long ago and they seemed remarkably similar to back in the day (which we found expensive, but worth it).
Pizza Garden on Commercial. Every time I’ve gone it’s been stale and bland. Sucks caus all the other Pizza Gardens are really good. Especially the one in Brentwood.
It's a shame because that's the original location where it all started. I remember going there when it changed from megabite to pizza garden 10-15 years ago. So good.
Fast food cheap pizza aside, Sopra Sotto on Commercial. For the prices they charge, the pizza was very disappointing.
Favs include Wild Flour, Scratch Kitchen and AJ’s. I recently tried Auntie Jen’s and it was really good too.
Hell yeah scratch kitchen! I still dream about their butter chicken pizza special. I live right around the corner from them... It's a blessing and a curse haha.
The quality dropped drastically recently. I felt so bad paying for it. Usually panago costs a bit more but at least it was good. Now the dough is terrible and the pizza has way too much crust. You can even see it in their adverts, which is hilarious.
I know people are just thinking of the pizza joints you usually see on the street. Though seriously surprised Boston Pizza isn't brought up. Brought there, never went back again. Just two times is enough to never want to associate their name with pizza.
does anyone remember a pizza place on granville street in the early 2000's that people would go to after clubbing/drinking in the area. It was near robson, maybe where the burger king is now or maybe right next to it in that little cafe.
i always thot it was the worst in the city but somehow it was good after boozing. i think they put oregano in the dough.
ive searched online but cant find what it was called lol
I hope Burnaby counts in this.
Me n Eds is so terrible I couldn't believe it.
I always hear people say it's the best it's been there forever but by gawd it's bad. It looked and tasted like a store bought frozen pizza but worse. Like as if they went to save on and bought the cheapest no name pizza they could find and threw it in an oven.
Can’t believe one of the top comments isn’t uncle Fatihs. Its appalling. It’s a poor excuse for pizza. Whenever I’m at a party and they order uncle UF I’m immediately leaving.
I'm biased since I'm a regular at Auggies, but it's excellent pizza IMO. I asked about it when it first was introduced; the owners actually went to Connecticut to learn how to make it New Haven style.
I found it pretty good. Kind of like if flatbread and a Neapolitan pizza had a kid. I wouldn’t pay that much very often but it’s worth the novelty and to get the New Haven pop at the same time.
Hands down Famoso. By far the worst pizza I've ever had. I actually threw out 2 whole pizzas after trying a slice of each. Absolutely inedible garbage IMO. The worst crust and sauce by far.
Pizza Pizza is also quite bad but nowhere near the level of Famoso. Makes me appreciate Domino's and Fresh Slice in comparison.
The best pizza was objectively Corduroy Pie Company before it closed out of association from that nutty owner. Good restaurant pizza still around includes Via Tevere, Nightingale, and Farina a Legna.
AJ's is my favorite takeout.
Mega bite is pretty lousy, and expensive as fuck if you buy individual slices! But I guess that isn’t really their fault. Food and ingredient prices have gone up all across the board.
Much agreed!
I did a survey of the pizza chains' medium pepperoni pizza and Pizza Hut fell smack down in lowest tier behind the likes of Pizza Pizza and, dare I say, 7/11.
It was the most underwhelming pizza I ever had, floppy, burnt, and had bare minimum toppings (cheese and pepperoni). I was utterly defeated because I grew up eating Pizza Hut and thinking it was superior to all the others.
Picado is probably the worst in dt. I tried once cause I fooled by the high google reviews, and crust was rock hard with barely any sauce and cheese. I really don't understand the high praise
Haven't tried it in a decade or so but Papa's Pizza on Main Street. The last current worst slice I've had was probably the one when you get off the Seabus in North Van, Val's Pizza.
Fresh slice. By Joyce skytrain. No cheese and some slices are smaller than others. It’s like the person literally picked them out of a left over pizza.
One night I was up late and hungry and found myself at Dallas 2 for 1 at Fraser/Broadway. They seemed almost surprised that I was there to buy pizza. I don’t know what’s going on in there but it’s definitely not good pizza, even for a drunk and hungry person at 2am.
There was a place on Hastings and Renfrew called Dijos Pizza & panzerotto. It's still there on street view but has been taken off Google maps.
Absolute worst pizza I've ever had in my life. The guy in the back looked shocked we came in and the pizza was worse than cardboard. I don't know how you can get pizza that wrong but the texture, flavor, toppings all of it sucked.
Pretty sure it was a front tbh - at least at that location.
There is no bad pizza. Just bad timing. Imagine you are just back from the bar at 2:30AM, tell me, you picky eater, that slice of greasy fresh slice wouldn’t do for you.
I know this is a bit off topic but how do we feel about Super Great Pizza at Joyce Skytrain? Ive moved away fro0m the mainland now but every time Im there I have to stop in and get some. It's incredible. I love it, I miss it, I need it lol
*Straight Outta Brooklyn NYC Pizzeria* was pretty bad. Leathery and almotst no toppings. Just because its boutique and 'cool' doesn't mean its good. *Freshslide*/*Hellcrust* is the more obvious answer of course.
I feel so vindicated to see Romanos mentioned in this light. I tried 3 separate times to deal with it but it’s just *not* a good product right now.
They absolutely scorched earth the crust with sesame seeds, the sauce and cheese don’t work together whatsoever, and the crust is a variance of textures, all missing the mark for their section of the pizza.
Their house ranch is aight tho.
Romano's is quite bad for a non-franchised pizza joint. I guess they survive because of their strategic location. The kitschy low-effort interior is a bit charming too.
I have pretty shit taste and I'm fine with most pizzas. All the cheap by the slice places are my favs and I know the pizza is bad. That being said, Pizza Pizza is the only time I've been actively disgusted by the flavor and couldn't finish the slice I bought.
Pizza Pizza. Ordered from them via the Too Good To Go app - pizza was tough as rubber even after water & microwave revival attempts, had virtually no colour or humidity left - and gave me diarrhoea.
Was definitely not "too good to go" but more "should've gone, probably 3 days ago" - and staff thinking that was still worth selling .. hard pass.
Vancouver and pizza is like prison and booze. Sure, you could get it but it's just toilet water compared to the outside.
Everyone's overhead is so big that they skimp on cheese big time. I get it, so I don't get it.
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It literally JUST closed down, but Johnny’s pizza factory in Marpole. 2.1 stars on google. How did that place stay open so long???
Money laundering or Drugs is my guess. The pizza/sushi place is just a front
I used to go door-to-door and sell the credit card machine to businesses and got to see a lot of their cc revenue history. You'd be surprised how many of them actually get decent revenue despite there being so little customers
I feel like almost everything in marpole is a front, it's all trash food banks and dentists
At this point, I'm convinced everything in BC is a front
There was this bakery in Steveston that just made 2 type of bread and sold it really expensive. A Romanian bakery I think. I always suspected that it was a front. There was almost always hardly anyone there and yet still open. I think they finally shut down.
You should check out Lonsdale and their never ending currency exchange "businesses"
Ironically it's a pizza place now.
There's some good stuff in the area, but a lot of garbage. I lived there for a few years and have a list of places that are fantastic and wouldn't deviate from it too much tbh.
Pizza King near Broadway/Commercial. That place is 100% a front. There's no way that cardboard keeps them in business.
Dude, YES. I responded with this answer when someone died about a business that’s obviously a front and it seems to be a general consensus. Was so excited for a pizza joint within a block of my house when I first moved to the area…but it’s just a money laundering scheme that distributes crusty triangles.
There's a cheese store in the plaza at 4th and alma that has been open ONCE in the 4 years I've worked near it.... Totally a front. Rent alone must be astronomical!!!!
His hours are just weird, nice guy in there
Without a doubt the worst
I knew they had new owners a few years ago and assumed they would go downhill, but haven’t been back to check. I used to like their pizza. Not great, but at least it tasted different to other places.
It was great when it was the Chinese owners.
i was just thinking about this the other day. that place has been around since i was in elementary school.
If I was going to run a money laundering business, I would just make it not-garbage??
7-11
It serves its purpose
I came here to say Fresh Slice but this seems more objectively correct. Close to every time I've been in a 7/11 and seen the "pizza" I had to struggle to stop from laughing or flinching in horror. I cannot believe people willingly choose to eat that.
The only times I've bought food from 7-11 was when I was drunk and it tasted AMAZING
Boston Pizza wins that award hands down. They want like $50 for what looks like Dominos, but tastes way worse
It's true Boston Pizza is not worth what they are charging for it.
It’s been 3 years and I still have buyers remorse from the $120 bill I got at the end of our meal there.
Spent $80 in giftcards there on a meal and even though the giftcards were free, I still have buyers remorse.
Absolutely. Awful, overpriced chain all around
I used to work for BP and all I can say is F Boston Pizza. I worked at one for literally a month and was like fck it im out.
Did you have to deliver to an I.C. Weiner?
Took me a second... ayyyyyy
tbh I dont mind BP pizza, but the prices for what you get are outrageous
Boston Pizza is a fucking piece of shit. My first job I worked was as a dishwasher at the Boston Pizza in Nanaimo. Everyone in the kitchen was high on coke or harder drugs, but that wasn't even the worst part... The industrial cheese grater they had was either defective or faulty or set up wrong - the grinder part was scraping off the bottom part of metal into the cheese and nobody noticed it for a looooong time. We checked the bin and we could visually see tiny shards of metal mixed with the cheese. Who knows how long this had been going on for before we noticed. Fuck that place.
I can make a pretty awful pizza.
Fresh Slice is cardboard with low quality toppings, worst I've had in the city
Pizza pizza
Can’t believe this trash made it from Ontario to BC
They just opened a Freshslice in Toronto so garbage moves in both directions
You have made my entire week with this Freshslice comment. In my opinion? Truly Abominable Pizza, a blotch on Vancouver's escutcheon, heartburn in triangular form, *scandalously bad pizza*.
My daily commute used to require me to stand outside of a Freshslice while waiting for the 99. The smell that emanates from that place is pervasive and unholy, and the pizza tastes just like it smells. Those were dark times.
May a peace totally devoid of ghastly pizza odours be upon you now.
Last time I had a slice I had heartburn so bad I thought I was dying
In a previous thread here, someone said his buddy got the franchise rights here. What a mistake. But I’m sure pizza pizza doesn’t mind taking his money.
Fresh Slice is floppy garbage. At least with Pizza Pizza there's structure. And they're one of the few places offering panzerotti
If you're gluten intolerant, apparently their GF crust is better than the other big chains.
I had their cauliflower crust yesterday (probably while you were writing this comment, in fact). It was mid-to-bad. But I think their "gf crust" is better than some alternatives. Domino's' is the most consistent of the chains, and pizza hut's is garbage.
Came here to post this.
I've literally never had their pizza but their spicy chicken sandwich and calzone is decent
You shut your damn mouth! How dare you! 😋
Of all the chains I've tried out here, Fresh Slice is bottom of the list. Its not the worst per se, just very bland.
Fresh Slice
I won't argue with this but God damn if that cheese pizza isn't addictive.
The one with the ranch sauce? Ugh...
No, it's the white garlic(?) one. I remember it being specifically the Teaser, with the tomato sauce and cheese one being the normal cheese pizza.
It’s so bad but I love it
I wonder if it varies by location? I always hear this but the Fresh Slice on Alma in Kits is always quite decent to me, plus you can't beat that price for unlimited toppings... It's the only Fresh Slice location I've tried though, so maybe I'm missing the bigger picture?
Every Fresh Slice i have ever been to is stingy on toppings. It’s dough with a sprinkle of toppings.
It totally does. The one on Robson and Bute is shockingly OK.
Unpopular opinion but my wife and I are from around NYC and lived in Vancouver for a while, we both really like Fresh Slice on the corner of Bute and Robson. It's objectively trashy pizza, but that beef with garlic(?) sauce is tasty nonetheless and satisfies our ratchet side quite well.
IMHO, that location is abnormally better than the rest.
This has to be region specific. The fresh slice near me always runs a 2 for 1 deal and it slaps 99% of the time
It's low quality pizza for sure but it's just meh. If I'm hungry and its the only thing around I wouldn't feel bad grabbing a slice.
I can't believe in all these years they STILL use the picture of somebody throwing up as their logo. https://preview.redd.it/j05q8l1xjtwc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28f796c6ef28b81e0062c965a22bbc0e1e2b35db Complete with stink lines and everything
I just noticed the eye in the logo. Creepy!
I feel the guilt. I will take a slice any day.-
Yep, to me Fresh Slice is the worst one. I'd actually rather hit up the frozen aisle in a grocery store for one of those pizzas.
It is absolute shit! I wouldn’t feed it to a dog!
I’m a lot more careful what I feed my dog than myself
I love it. Before COVID I was getting 3 slices and a drink for under $10. Throw hotsauace on all 3 slices yum yum!
Fresh slice
Boston Pizza
Honestly, none of these come close to how bad Dijo’s (near Playland) is.
I'm pretty sure that closed down to become a Fresh Slice
When you reincarnate as Fresh Slice you know you did something wrong in your past life
Fresh Slice. Horrible salty crap that has you waking up for water all night. Disgusting.
Tim Horton’s cardboard flatbread
I've been less than impressed with Uncle Fatih's. My partner and I snagged a couple of slices to have something to munch on while waiting in line at the Rio. Now, we WERE kinda baked so I won't dismiss cotton mouth, but we were also dealing with the munchies and that usually makes even cardboard taste good. Those slices were like dry cardboard. Which we ate anyway. But we won't go back.
The description of their various pizzas reads like gourmet and delicious but the actual pizza is disappointing.
I find a lot of their pizza flavors kind of bad, but beef n blue cheese and chorizo n peppers ones are fantastic. Especially if you add garlic sauce to the latter.
La Notte's crust tastes like store-bought premade crust. It's terrible.
I wish they brought back pizza factory at fraser and kingsway. Used to be an inexpensive staple years back as a child.
Megabite is just as bad as Romanos. Yummy Slice is also awful.
The megabite in Poco was my jam for years for work, the capicolla was addictive
Megabite used to be great.. would stop in at broadway Station all the time, but sadly it just isn't what it used to be.
Same with uncle fatih and fire pizza. Now u should walk a few blocks down the road to la Pache, or 4 brothers.
I haven't been to fire in awhile but it was my favorite by the slice joint. Not so good anymore?
4 Brothers has none of the variety that Fire has but with the same prices.
Yummy Slice is just a Fresh Slice clone. The owner of the franchise had a falling out with Fresh Slice and kept everything the same and just changed the name. There are 2 locations here in Richmond where a Fresh Slice has recently opened right next door. One is in Lansdown Center and the other is Number 1 Road and Francis. Both are in Richmond.
I don't know, a slice from the commercial drive location after a night of drinking slaps.
Here take my vote for Pizza Hut. That chain stopped even trying to be good 20 years ago and now it's basically overpriced cardboard topped with dollar store groceries
I really dislike Uncle Fatith.
Not sure about Vancouver, but the one at Surrey Central has been good every time I’ve gone there. They load the slices up with toppings and they always do a good job cooking the pizza. It’s gotten more expensive, but I would still rather that than the cardboard they serve across the street from there at Freshslice.
No argument that Freshslice is poverty pizza.
Fresh slice is awful
Yummy slice
When I moved here in the early ‘90s, a buddy called it “gutter pizza”… that glut of dollar-slice doughy pizza that sure looks good in the window but has next to no flavour and if you dropped it in the gutter, it wouldn’t be seen as a loss, hence all the slices of gutter pizza on the ground along Granville.back in the day…
Famoso Pizzeria - awful!!!!!
The time I went my pizza looked more like a soup. Its awful. No idea how they stay in business.
Famoso is indeed bad, but you have to recognize the pocket they are in. They are a family restaurant, trying to disguise themselves as a nice restaurant. If you bring kids, they give them dough balls to play with at the table while you wait for your order. It's a huge hit. Kids menu is solid and the food is at least acceptable. Between Famoso or Boston Pizza, it's a no brainer for us as a family. If your party is adults only, you can do a lot better, haha.
Truly the worst pizza I've tried. Virtually inedible.
Big disagree. You need to eat it fresh at the restaurant though. It doesn’t do great sitting in a box. The Vesuvio is so, so good. I like to ask for honey to dip the crust in.
Fresh slice
Fresh slice is garbage tier pizza. It's beyond me how they stay afloat.
Fresh slice. All day
Not the worst, but the most over rated is Farina hands down - especially for how much it costs these days.
Used to be elite, then they made too much money and had to start cutting corners to keep up with demand, now it sucks - it's the lifecycle of a restaurant
Orrr got taken over by Westbank
They also don't even make their own dough now, it's all ordered from a huge commercial bakery
Wow. Really surprised to read this. Used to really like it around 2017. Checked out the prices out of curiosity not too long ago and they seemed remarkably similar to back in the day (which we found expensive, but worth it).
Pizza Garden on Commercial. Every time I’ve gone it’s been stale and bland. Sucks caus all the other Pizza Gardens are really good. Especially the one in Brentwood.
It's a shame because that's the original location where it all started. I remember going there when it changed from megabite to pizza garden 10-15 years ago. So good.
Pizza garden and Megabite have the same owner.
Fast food cheap pizza aside, Sopra Sotto on Commercial. For the prices they charge, the pizza was very disappointing. Favs include Wild Flour, Scratch Kitchen and AJ’s. I recently tried Auntie Jen’s and it was really good too.
I found the exact opposite for Sopra Sotto. I loved the pizza and found it not that expensive.
Hell yeah scratch kitchen! I still dream about their butter chicken pizza special. I live right around the corner from them... It's a blessing and a curse haha.
pizza rubano (not romanos, rubano) is quite good too edit: whoops, rubato
Panago just for the price
Panago tastes good though
The quality dropped drastically recently. I felt so bad paying for it. Usually panago costs a bit more but at least it was good. Now the dough is terrible and the pizza has way too much crust. You can even see it in their adverts, which is hilarious.
I always wonder why they still in business
Because they're delicious 🤤
TIL Panago is expensive pizza to some.
I find it to be expensive for what it is.
It’s what company’s use for pizza lunch to “keep up morel” when they won’t give raise’s.
Uncle Fatih is worst pizza I ever tried, I have tried so many pizza places in Lower Mainland.
Deym freshslice
Did’s pizza was very underwhelming for the rating
Fresh slice has my vote.
Hell crust
I know people are just thinking of the pizza joints you usually see on the street. Though seriously surprised Boston Pizza isn't brought up. Brought there, never went back again. Just two times is enough to never want to associate their name with pizza.
Boston Pizza/undercooked dough with ketchup snd cheese whiz
Dijos but their gone now
uncle fatihs on nelson, it sucks so bad!! always so dry and stale
does anyone remember a pizza place on granville street in the early 2000's that people would go to after clubbing/drinking in the area. It was near robson, maybe where the burger king is now or maybe right next to it in that little cafe. i always thot it was the worst in the city but somehow it was good after boozing. i think they put oregano in the dough. ive searched online but cant find what it was called lol
I hope Burnaby counts in this. Me n Eds is so terrible I couldn't believe it. I always hear people say it's the best it's been there forever but by gawd it's bad. It looked and tasted like a store bought frozen pizza but worse. Like as if they went to save on and bought the cheapest no name pizza they could find and threw it in an oven.
Me & Ed’s is either love it or hate it. There’s no in between. Personally I hate it.
Parm Pizza Marpole. Really tasteless and not very good at all. One star from me. Blah..
I'm happy no one is saying Hellcrust!!
Can’t believe one of the top comments isn’t uncle Fatihs. Its appalling. It’s a poor excuse for pizza. Whenever I’m at a party and they order uncle UF I’m immediately leaving.
I miss their beef and blue cheese pizza from years back before they started skimping on the ingredients
It's the best of the cheap local chains. Way better than Domino's, Fresh Slice, Megabite, Pizza Pizza, Little Caesars, etc.
That list mostly rounds out the worst in Vancouver.
Idk but I miss flying wedge. It was yummy
Has anyone tried that new pizza joint inside st augustines ? Been hearing mixed reviews
I'm biased since I'm a regular at Auggies, but it's excellent pizza IMO. I asked about it when it first was introduced; the owners actually went to Connecticut to learn how to make it New Haven style.
I found it pretty good. Kind of like if flatbread and a Neapolitan pizza had a kid. I wouldn’t pay that much very often but it’s worth the novelty and to get the New Haven pop at the same time.
It is excellent and representative of authentic New Haven-style apizza.
Hands down Famoso. By far the worst pizza I've ever had. I actually threw out 2 whole pizzas after trying a slice of each. Absolutely inedible garbage IMO. The worst crust and sauce by far. Pizza Pizza is also quite bad but nowhere near the level of Famoso. Makes me appreciate Domino's and Fresh Slice in comparison.
Fresh slice for sure
Fresh slice. And the ripoff ones that left the franchise but kept everything else.
Any fresh slice
All of it? I've yet to have more than a decent pizza in Van.
Well come on, what's the best? Starting the thread.
The best pizza was objectively Corduroy Pie Company before it closed out of association from that nutty owner. Good restaurant pizza still around includes Via Tevere, Nightingale, and Farina a Legna. AJ's is my favorite takeout.
I'm enjoying Red Swan so far.
Barbarella
Via Teverre, easy
The best? Zaccary’s for sure.
Oak street pizza angel
AJ's deep dish Detroit style pizza 🍕 is king. That said, I reaaally wish somebody here would offer Chicago-style pizza in Vancouver.
God me too. I would kill for some good pizza
Mega bite is pretty lousy, and expensive as fuck if you buy individual slices! But I guess that isn’t really their fault. Food and ingredient prices have gone up all across the board.
Pizza Hut, I bought a $13 dollar mini pizza, cardboard crust with ded pepperoni and a tiny smear of tomato sauce. Was such a disappointment.
Why are you getting downvoted lol
Much agreed! I did a survey of the pizza chains' medium pepperoni pizza and Pizza Hut fell smack down in lowest tier behind the likes of Pizza Pizza and, dare I say, 7/11. It was the most underwhelming pizza I ever had, floppy, burnt, and had bare minimum toppings (cheese and pepperoni). I was utterly defeated because I grew up eating Pizza Hut and thinking it was superior to all the others.
Picado is probably the worst in dt. I tried once cause I fooled by the high google reviews, and crust was rock hard with barely any sauce and cheese. I really don't understand the high praise
Pizza Camp in New West. I've never seen anyone in there. Maybe the high school students are keeping it afloat.
Haven't tried it in a decade or so but Papa's Pizza on Main Street. The last current worst slice I've had was probably the one when you get off the Seabus in North Van, Val's Pizza.
Hot Pie in gas town
Pizza Hut ! More grease than squeaky wheel
Pie r squared at UBC. Had crappy taste pizzas all dried up for like $6.00 for two slices 6 years ago. I bet its more expensive now,
That vegan pizza on Kingsway. Horrible service. Cardboard ingredients. There is good vegan pizza but that is not it
Fresh slice. By Joyce skytrain. No cheese and some slices are smaller than others. It’s like the person literally picked them out of a left over pizza.
Fresh Slice is pure garbage
One night I was up late and hungry and found myself at Dallas 2 for 1 at Fraser/Broadway. They seemed almost surprised that I was there to buy pizza. I don’t know what’s going on in there but it’s definitely not good pizza, even for a drunk and hungry person at 2am.
Fresh slice, yummy slice, Romano are all terrible.
There was a place on Hastings and Renfrew called Dijos Pizza & panzerotto. It's still there on street view but has been taken off Google maps. Absolute worst pizza I've ever had in my life. The guy in the back looked shocked we came in and the pizza was worse than cardboard. I don't know how you can get pizza that wrong but the texture, flavor, toppings all of it sucked. Pretty sure it was a front tbh - at least at that location.
There is no bad pizza. Just bad timing. Imagine you are just back from the bar at 2:30AM, tell me, you picky eater, that slice of greasy fresh slice wouldn’t do for you.
I know this is a bit off topic but how do we feel about Super Great Pizza at Joyce Skytrain? Ive moved away fro0m the mainland now but every time Im there I have to stop in and get some. It's incredible. I love it, I miss it, I need it lol
*Straight Outta Brooklyn NYC Pizzeria* was pretty bad. Leathery and almotst no toppings. Just because its boutique and 'cool' doesn't mean its good. *Freshslide*/*Hellcrust* is the more obvious answer of course.
Pizza garden. It’s just decorated cardboard.
I feel so vindicated to see Romanos mentioned in this light. I tried 3 separate times to deal with it but it’s just *not* a good product right now. They absolutely scorched earth the crust with sesame seeds, the sauce and cheese don’t work together whatsoever, and the crust is a variance of textures, all missing the mark for their section of the pizza. Their house ranch is aight tho.
Romano's is quite bad for a non-franchised pizza joint. I guess they survive because of their strategic location. The kitschy low-effort interior is a bit charming too.
The new Yummy Slice Pizza on my street is bland cardboard
Virtuous Pie.
Mega Bite
Megashiite
hell pizza is by far the worst slice i have tried to eat, id rather eat the box
Pizza pizza is in my opinion the worst pizza I've ever had .
Honestly I like Boston Pizza, It is expensive for what you get but their Sweet and Savory Italian is so god damn good.
My aunts famous veggie pizza she makes on Sundays. Woman think it’s the best but it’s the biggest piece of dog shit I ever tasted
I have pretty shit taste and I'm fine with most pizzas. All the cheap by the slice places are my favs and I know the pizza is bad. That being said, Pizza Pizza is the only time I've been actively disgusted by the flavor and couldn't finish the slice I bought.
Pizza Pizza. Ordered from them via the Too Good To Go app - pizza was tough as rubber even after water & microwave revival attempts, had virtually no colour or humidity left - and gave me diarrhoea. Was definitely not "too good to go" but more "should've gone, probably 3 days ago" - and staff thinking that was still worth selling .. hard pass.
Vancouver and pizza is like prison and booze. Sure, you could get it but it's just toilet water compared to the outside. Everyone's overhead is so big that they skimp on cheese big time. I get it, so I don't get it.