Tim’s Gourmet Pizza

Great service and the pizza was really good! The portion size was reasonable (I had the smallest pizza) so I didn’t have to take home leftovers. Also our waitress brought us home made cookies after our meal which was nice.

I love this place. I’ve had 4 kinds of pizza, all have been delicious. I do have to say I’m not a huge fan of the honey pizza, as a meal, only because it’s too sweet. If I had one piece of the honey pizza that would be enough. It is tasty.
I dined with a friend that loved her vegetarian pizza. They have Vegetarian options.
The staff is super friendly and the owner has visited our table on several occasions. I love the vintage building and the brilliant décor. I do feel that you get what you pay for here. The prices are a bit high but so is the quality.
On two occasions we received complimentary homemade chocolate chip cookies with our bill, a great surprise.
Now I’m craving Tim’s pizza…

Pretty good food, nice service and mice ambiance. Only had steaks since the owner apparently had some function he had to go to two hours later which limited our menu to pizzas. Pizzas were tasty, would come here again, perhaps to try the steak sandwiches we had stopped in to originally try.

Still can’t believe this place is in Cochrane! The food is absolutely delicious, the service excellent, and the décor is fantastic… wow!
The owner often comes by your table to check how you’re doing — an excellent touch, and it really shows his love for this place.
Great vegetarian options, too!

Delicious. Great original flavors.

Love love loved this place. My husband and I just moved to Cochrane and are excited to try out the restaurants cochrane has to offer. The pizzas where delicious. We had the arugula 6″ and the artichoke and sun dried tomato 6″. The perfect amount of food for a light lunch. They have a patio and as well as indoor seating. Loved this place and am very excited to go back to try more of the pizzas offered.
Service as great as well.

Ordered two medium pizzas came to $ 34 bucks. The girl handed me the pie plates and I thought they were empty. It was tasty but I needed dinner not an appetizer.

Great pizza, both in store, pickup or frozen. Tim has figured out the balance between home made quality in Fast food!

We got to meet the man himself today at the Tuesday Farmer’s Market at Northland! Tim! Nice guy and he matches the logo picture perfectly!
We have yet to get to the Cochrane restaurant location but we will make a point of getting there as we have heard great things.
We get the pizza weekly at the Symons Valley Farmer’s Market (NW) and I have all kinds of faves from here. You can get a small, medium, large and they offer white, multi-​grain or whole wheat dough. You can also get gluten-​free pizza from here!
I buy one or 2 smalls each week. Whole wheat is my choice and I put them in the freezer for those emergency late night dinners. Easy to put in the oven and does not take long to cook. A small to be consumed alone is not glutinous — it is the perfect amount, a personal sized pizza that you would get at a restaurant.
On the pricey side ($ 9 — small), but the ingredients are fantastic and they do not taste frozen at all. The cheese is amazing and you get a generous amount of it. The pizzas are made with a lot of love and seasoned just right!
If you have to choose just one from the list of 10 or so pizzas that they offer, choose the Teriyaki Chicken. Delicious especially if you love cilantro as I do.
They have samples all the time so check them out! (Calgary Farmer’s Market, Symons Valley Market (not here anymore), Northland (Tues), Airdrie (Wed).

Wow a previous reviewer must have tried this place on a really off day as we found it excellent. The building does not look old and dilapidated — this is Cochrane after all and a lot of buildings have a western look unlike downtown Calgary– and is sparkling clean inside. It was formerly a music shop but has been totally redone inside. The pizzas are a bit expensive but they were piping hot and the toppings generous. The menu now includes a couple of pasta dishes as well as appetizers and even a steak at dinner or steak sandwich at lunch time.

Very attentive service in an absolutely spotless restaurant. We had the kale salad which was delicious. They were out of the size of pizza crust that we wanted. No biggie… we order the large size and had the toppings split so we were able to try 2 different flavours of pizza! Piping hot delicious! We will be back! It would be nice if there was a few more choices on the menu as it is a little limited!

My hubby and I were in Cochrane on Saturday and stumbled on this awesome restaurant! The first impression was gorgeous, gorgeous! And the food was even better. We ordered the bruschetta that was served on warm home made bread, so so good! Then we moved on to the meatballs, we were scooping up the sauce again so so so good. My hubby had the Tuscan style steak, served with roasted garlic and chive mashed, it was a lot of food, but he loved it. Apparently the owners spend a lot of time in Italy and bring back recipes and olive oils soon to come. I had the pizza, they make frozen pizzas but the restaurant pizza dough is made fresh every day, again delicious, we had to take a few frozen to go. Again the décor is wonderful, didn’t want to leave. This is a must to check out! Im sad they are only in Cochrane, want more.

I have picked up Tim’s frozen pizzas at the farmer’s markets in Calgary. They were always delicious if not on the expensive end (but what at a farmer’s market is a steal?) I was very excited to hear Tim was opening this place and I kept it on my «check back» list for months. It was a bit of an effort to actually get there once it finally opened. Hours aren’t really posted so we’d call and they’d be closed. Our first trip out we arrived and were told that although they were open, they only sell frozen pizzas on Mondays. Once getting that all sorted, we arrived on a day they actually wanted to sell us food in a restaurant… it was only about the 5^th time we planned to eat there.
When you drive up to the restaurant you come to a dilapidated old building. This is not something I would have walked by and want to check out. The curb appeal tells me the place is unkept and dirty. The signage isn’t great, I recognize the sign from the market fliers but it doesn’t even tell you it’s a pizza place or an eatery of any kind. You almost need a 4×4 in the parking lot because it’s full of pot holes. It should be the priority of the owner to get some gravel in there to smooth things out a bit. There was a giant and rather deep puddle and it hadn’t rained in days. Luckily the inside is nice and is a place I feel comfortable eating.
Front of house is made up of very young and rather inexperienced staff. We had some very awkward service issues that wouldn’t happen to someone with bit more experience. On the plus note, they are very attentive and eager to the point you might be asked by 3 or 4 people how you’re doing in a 20 minute period. In the end I’ll take a stack of unnecessary plates, 2 knives as a place settings and continuous questions over grossly negligent wait staff most days.
What disappointed me was the menu. They were serving the half dozen pizzas they do at the farmers markets in the same sizes on their 3 types of crust (multigrain, original and gluten free). Then they serve a pasta special but that’s basically it. We asked what the pasta special was (at 5:30pm and they close at 7pm) and we were told «It’s not ready yet, the lady who makes it isn’t here yet» this was later parroted back by Tim who said his wife would kill him if he were to touch the pasta. Tim at least offered to cook up something from frozen but it was 45 minutes wait for that. I thought that was highly unprofessional. What was so special about a pasta dish that only an owner can make it and they’d rather turn a paying customer away?
The pizzas came out and I was surprised they tasted just like Tim’s products at home — nothing about them was better than doing it yourself at home. Maybe that’s the point, but it surprised me. The next surprise was just how unfilling a pizza really is there. Yes, I had bought and consumed the exact same pizzas but I think the difference was we served them with other sides and options at home. We bought Tim’s pizzas for $ 16 each and they were more like appetizers. I assume the Big Tim’s are more like the entrée size but $ 22 for a cheese pizza? Wowzers… it’s good but I’m not sure it’s that good.
The cost is really a big problem for me. The price in store was more than the farmer’s markets. $ 20 tax included got you a Big Tim’s in the market but it will run you $ 22 in store without tax and before gratuity. That same pizza (that tastes the same FYI) costs $ 26.56 after tax and 15% tip. Keep in mind this is not a pizza large enough to share unless there is something else for dinner (and there menu is basically just pizza) so that’s basically the cost per person. We ordered the $ 16 9“ers each. We didn’t like the drink offerings so we ordered water (a $ 2pp charge!) and we left $ 45 poorer and still hungry because we basically just ordered appetizers. The pasta wasn’t done when we left or we might have tried that… but we actually left and got another dinner elsewhere! Yup, a whole other dinner…
Overall the product is good here but the business model is a mess. I think this place was opened as a way for give Tim a bigger kitchen for the frozen food aspect of business. There isn’t much forethought into the front of house operations and I think he’ll need that if they want to do well. I’m sure I’ll pick up a frozen pizza in the future but I’m not interested in the dining experience they offer.