Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2019

Had A Bad Experience With Pizza Pizza at Toronto, Union Station

                As I said on the blog post this morning, I had a bad experience with Pizza Pizza and usually I have a good experience with Pizza Pizza, nice fresh tasting Pizza but this time in Toronto not so much. This is my fault for wanting a Pizza slice but how the heck am I suppose to know they didn't warm up the slice properly. It was clearly cold as the pineapple and the toppings, the entire slice was cold! Trust me I was cursing the f word under my breath it was f***ing cold. Yes I pulled a Gordon Ramsay on this. Also the other thing that I was not happy with was the fact that it was burned to a crisp on the bottom and trust me I can taste the burnt dough. I thought this is so burnt a golfer can tee off with it. Yes I have learnt some dandy comments from Chef Ramsay, Hells Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell, 24 Hours of Hell and Back. I mean it shouldn't be burnt even warmed up so they must of kept it in too long but I was not one bit impressed at all. 


                  I actually contacted Pizza, Pizza but yet to hear back from them which really I could care if they did as that was the last straw. After this experience, I kind of was turned off by the quality control of the food and already stated I would not be back there in the very near future.  I like Little Caesars Pizza or Domino's, however Dominoes we had a problem with it. There is a couple of places I or my parents or family can go and there is one place here locally that is good but expensive but worth a try. Anyways that is not what this post is about it is about the fact the experience, I just do not know if I would eat at a Pizza Pizza again and I realize this is only at Union that I had this issue and any other store would be different experience. Different store, different  experience!




Chris

New Food Court At Union Station, Toronto

             Back on Monday, I got the chance to go into Toronto for the day for my 3rd day off from Chris B On The Web as you know I took some time off from Chris B On The Web as I really did need it and I was pretty stressed out at the time. There is a lot going on here in the studio with keeping up with the podcasts, the website domain trying to get back which mind you nothing has happened yet. Anyways the day consisted of going over to St. Micheal's Cathedral for Noon mass. Also we originally were suppose to have lunch over at Eaton Center which was our original plan but I kind of came up with the idea to go back down to Union Station and eat. My dad had a bagel and for me as I already had bread I had to have Pizza Pizza which was not a great experience and I will be talking about this on the blog later on and trust me I have a lot to say about the experience overall. 


               Before we went to Mass though, we actually took a look at the food court and I wish I took a picture of it honestly but I just didn't think of it as it was out of site out of mind and I just did not really think about it honestly. I was overwhelmed with the way it was setup, I was quite impressed actually. Also the lady at the Chinese food gave us a sample which was Chicken with sweet and sour sauce and it was good. There was also McDonalds (meh), Perogies place as well. There was a Thai place as well, Timmie's (Tim Horton's). I am sure I am forgetting some but it was really nice and I never really knew that the downstairs existed but it could of not been there and dug out but I do not know as the Bay Concourse wasn't there originally from what my dad mentioned back on Monday.  But either way I really did enjoy the new food court and plan on eating there again down the road, well minus the experience I had which like I said I will end up up today at 1 pm EST.




Chris

Friday, November 23, 2018

McCafe Express Service Review....

          Making this my last post about my trip to Toronto with Dave as you guys are probably getting sick of me talking about the trip honestly and I promise you this is the final post and hope you do enjoy today's blog post as its not a food review this time, its more of a service review at a restaurant.  What restaurant well McCafe which is part of the McDonald's restaurant chain.  Now the lineup itself was long enough and we had to catch the 213 pm train as the train only ran every hour that weekend due to track work in Durham so we were quite in time to getting food and he wanted to grab something small and so did I as well. At first we had the option of going through the express option with the express order I guess you would call it I guess or the line and risk us missing the train . We did line up to order but then we made that decision it would be too long so we ordered at the touch screen and mind you it went much faster then we expected and able to finish up eating in time for the Go Train. 


            Now what did I have? I had a grilled cheese on Multi Grain brain which was really super good, so soft, tender with the very gooey cheese it was very delicious and to me that is my kind of comfort food. I am not one for usually to eat Multi Grain bread but I am glad I tried it because it was indeed really good. I love how the cheese was just gooing out of the bread which means it was was cooked enough to melt the cheese in the sandwich and it wasn't done like you would do it at home. It was done in a sandwich press as I can tell by the grill marks so it is so obvious that is how it was done but it doesn't matter how it was done it was really good and delicious too. The price was reasonable and wasn't overly expensive and no fast food place is really too pricey to be honest.  Would I do this again? Of course the service, especially  the speedy service as I said before we were in a mad rush as we had a Go Train to catch at 213 in the afternoon and it was an easy solution for us to grab some food before we head out back home, mind you it was the only real choice that we had or it was either that and go back out the door, miss this train, wait one more extra hour for a bus which would actually suck as I was crabby by that time of the day. We made the right choice and no regrets whatsoever, service gets a 10/10 in my books!



Chris