Boston Pizza

Date: December 28, 2012
Location: Warden/Steeles, Markham
Website: http://www.bostonpizza.com
Cuisine: North American
Meal: dinner

My thoughts:
My mom was leaving town the next day for a few weeks, so we decided to have a family dinner. We opted to eat out to avoid the hassle of cooking and cleaning. As usual, we ordered a few dishes to share:

I had an 8" TUSCAN PIZZA ($12.25) on a multigrain crust, which came with pomodoro sauce, mozzarella, cheddar, spicy chicken breast, roasted garlic, fresh spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and feta. This was sooooo good! I normally prefer thin-crust pizza, but the pizza was perfect as is. The spicy chicken gave this a good kick. I could definitely taste the heat.

My sister had the CHIPOTLE CHICKEN CLUB ($12.25), which had a chargrilled chicken breast, bacon, tomatoes, lettuce and chipotle Caesar sauce on their signature pizza bread. This was pretty good, but I found the pizza bread to be a bit dry.

My other sister had the BAKED CHIPOTLE CHICKEN PENNE ($15.25), which had chipotle seasoning, smoky bacon, alfredo sauce, mushrooms, green onion, tomato, cheddar and mozzarella. This was also not bad, but a bit salty and while it was cheesy, it would have benefitted from more alfredo sauce.

Finally, we had NACHOS ($10.99), which was tortilla chips topped with cheddar and mozzarella, olives, green peppers, tomatoes and jalapeño peppers. Did I like this? This has some basic no-fail ingredients, so of course I did. But I have had bigger and better nachos at other places, like Kelsey's and Moxie's. I like how both of those restaurants have 1) more cheese, and 2) a layer of crispy cheese on the plate - maybe a result of baking at a higher temperature or for a longer period of time.

I can't believe I'd never ordered the pizza before. I was definitely very glad I ordered it. As much as I liked the Tuscan, however, I'll be trying their other flavours next time. Also, this was a good place to have a casual family dinner. It wasn't very busy, so we didn't have to shout over each other to be heard. We all had a good time.