Rustica Pizza

After seeing a flyer for Pizza Rustica in Thornhill, we were excited to visit the new location of what had been a regular haunt in our downtown Toronto days. We were craving gourmet thin crust pizza and headed over after they kindly said they’d keep the kitchen open for us. Unfortunately, our food took nearly an hour to come and they had mixed up the toppings.
The management redeemed themselves by not only making new pizzas (that thankfully took much less than an hour) and offering us some dessert to make up for the mix up. The pizza wasn’t bad. Not the best I’ve had, and not as good as the downtown location but this is the only gourmet thin-​crust pizza place in the consumer wasteland of Thornhill. I hope they get their kitchen staff sorted and manage to get the word out to make this place successful!

What a waste of time, we went to the new Thornhill location, 12 people, waited over an hour for bread, got a 2 litre bottle of Pepsi, order 1 potato-​roasted garlic– olive oil and rosemary, got dry paper thin under cooked potato slices, on dry pizza, no garlic, or rosemary. Portobello mushroom salad with no portobello, with off the shelf dressing. 2. ordered 8 salads, after 1.5 hrs, 2 showed up, 3. 3 veal parms, got spaghetti/​angel hair in a sauce/​soup and first time pasta with cubed steak and was told it was parm, cold. 4. After 2 hrs 2 meals did not come and were cancelled, my seafood pasta showed up, dry and over cooked mussels had a funny taste maybe old, other 2 showed up 30 mins after me. Asked for plain dry bread, got toasted bread and orders of garlic bread without garlic. 5. penne with canned soupy sauce.6. ventilation was not working, smoke filled. 7. one of the group spoke to the owner (very defensive and called from the downtown location) he started making racial slurs. There was a party at a restaurant next door and some of the patrons overheard the owners tirade. We will see how long this location lasts.