Lino’s Pizza & Beer Parlour

Look I’ve been around the world, and as a native New Yorker, I’ve never had better pizza outside the State of NY. I truly mean this, I just had the best pizza of my life at Linos in Crystal Beach. Ricotta Spinach pizza to be exact. The crust was perfect. The cheese was perfect. Service was great and price was great! Oh yeah, incredible poutine as well. Incredible pizza Linos the bar has been set to a new height. Wish I could put an award on yer door, but here’s my Unilocal reward instead! Will be back during my visit to the area. Aloha!

Well, after a fire, and several months with no apparent activity (during which I was afraid they were just going to shut it down), and then several more months of being swarmed by contractors, Lino’s is back in business.
Some of the changes are apparent from the outside: stone facing on the outside walls, and a new and larger patio. Inside, the layout is pretty much the same as before, except there’s more natural light, so I’m guessing that there are more (or larger) windows than there were before. I was also relieved to see that some (not all, alas) of the local sports memorabilia which used to hang on the walls has been saved. (Some of it, apparently, went up in the fire, and has been replaced with other items which don’t quite have the same local flavour.) The Crystal Beach memorabilia seems to be all gone, which is a shame.
There service is still friendly, and the food is still just okay. (Not bad, by any means, but not great, either.)