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Windsor-Style Pizza at Ambassador Pizza Co.

Published on October 11, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 946 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Website: https://www.ambassadorpizzaco.ca/

Ambassador Pizza serves Windsor-style pizza — yes, Windsor has its own style of pizza (why is there no Toronto-style pizza? Someone get on that).

This style of pizza is known for having a flour and cornmeal crust, and, most famously, for being topped with shredded pepperoni.

If you’re buying a slice, you can get either cheese or pepperoni. Normally I’d go for a plain cheese pizza, but obviously I had to see what was up with the shredded pepperoni.

It’s interesting; you wind up with a much more subtle pepperoni flavour, so if you’re not a big fan of the stuff, this might be the pizza for you. Its distinctive saltiness is dialed down quite a bit, with the flavour spread much more evenly throughout the slice.

As for the pizza itself, it’s solid. The crust a nice exterior crispiness and a pleasant airiness, with just enough heft to hold up to the generous amount of tasty sauce and cheese. It’s not the most flavourful crust ever, but I think it was brushed with some kind of garlic oil that worked pretty well.

It’s about nine bucks for a slice, which is on the higher end — but it’s also comically large, so you could easily share. I don’t it’s anything anyone is going to lose their minds over, but it’s clearly above average.

A Creamy Dessert at 6 Cloud

Published on October 2, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 3236 Yonge Street, Toronto
Website: https://www.6cloud.co/

6 Cloud serves what they describe as “Cold Souffle Cream Sandwiches.” Basically, it’s Japanese-style souffle pancakes stuffed with a whole bunch of whipped cream.

I like souffle pancakes. I like whipped cream. So yes please, cram the two things together. I’m into this.

And yeah, it’s good. They have several flavours, but I went with the most basic, Hokkaido Milk: “Our signature fluffy souffle stuffed with rich, creamy Hokkaido milk cream.”

It’s very tasty. It’s actually pretty interesting — the level of sweetness is a lot more restrained than you’d expect, and there are no other flavours to distract from the cream. There’s a bit of egginess from the pancake, but otherwise, this is all about the flavour of the dairy. It’s satisfying.

It’s also less messy than you’d think. I was afraid that all the cream would immediately squish out of the sides when I ate it, but the pancakes are soft enough and the cream is dense enough that it totally holds together.

A Tasty Breakfast at Kitchen on Sixth

Published on October 1, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 2976 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Etobicoke
Website: https://www.kitchenonsixth.com/

Kitchen on Sixth is a delightful little restaurant in Etobicoke that specializes in British eats. I came during brunch on a Saturday; there was a lot of tasty looking stuff on the menu, but the full English breakfast was calling my name.

The full English: “Sunny eggs, British bangers, peameal, black pudding, white pudding, baked beans, grilled tomato, sautéed mushrooms, house cut fries, toast.”

Pretty much every component here is quite tasty, from the snappy sausage (which I think is fried, giving it additional texture), to the savoury black and white puddings, to the zingy beans.

I say “pretty much” because fries both do not belong on a full English and weren’t particularly good (they were a bit chalky and dense in the middle), but everything else is tasty enough that I can easily overlook this.

One more tiny complaint: this is the nitpickiest of nitpicks, but the beans should absolutely not be in their own little container. For me, the joy of a full breakfast is trying to get a little bit of everything into each bite — the ramekin both segregates the beans and creates a barrier in the middle of the plate, making it unnecessarily difficult to get a mouthful with everything. However, dumping the beans onto the plate solves this, and is something you should absolutely do.

Nitpicks aside, this was a tasty breakfast and one I’d happily order again.

Stellar Gelato at Cono

Published on September 30, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 932 College Street, Toronto
Website: https://www.wearecono.com/

Cono is a great new gelato shop that recently opened on College Street to a decent amount of hype. I showed up a few minutes after they opened at 3:00pm on a Sunday, and there was already a line out the door.

Having just tried the gelato, I can confirm that the hype is justified. It’s stellar.

I went with the brown butter, and had it on a cone, which they make in house.

I almost exclusively favour cups over cones, but you can see the guy making the cones by the front window. It’s right in the name. Obviously, you’ve gotta get one.

Or do you? I’ll admit that I’m not really a cone guy, and the one here — while very good — has done nothing to change my mind. I feel like really good ice cream or gelato stands on its own, and the cone just kinda distracts from that and gets in the way.

Because yeah, the gelato here is really good. I need to try some other flavours, but just based on this one visit, I’d say it’s on par with (or at least in the same ballpark as) the best gelato in the city.

It was perfectly rich and creamy, and the brown butter flavour was great, with a restrained sweetness and a satisfying mild nuttiness that works really well. It’s quite tasty.

Tasty Eats at The Ex

Published on September 27, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 100 Princes’ Boulevard, Toronto
Website: https://www.theex.com/

Another year of the Ex, another batch of weird foods. A slightly smaller batch than I was hoping — I really wanted to try the pickle cheesecake on a stick, which seems like it should not exist and was therefore something I felt an odd compulsion to try. Alas, I couldn’t find the vendor that was serving it and eventually had to abandon that dream.

Fried lobster on a stick from Lobster on a Stick

This was actually one of the less odd new items at the Ex this year (there’s nothing particularly weird about it, aside from the inherent oddness of a luxury item like lobster being served at a carnival); it’s just a tempura-battered lobster tail on a stick. Still, aside from it being a bit tough, it was tasty, with the two sauces on the side (dill and garlic butter) being a nice complement.

Jamaican patty mini beef patty pierogies from Supreme Pierogi

Beef patties and pierogies aren’t necessarily a food I would have thought of cramming together, but hey, what do you know — this works. It’s essentially a pierogi exterior with beef patty filling. It’s lightly fried, giving it some texture. The slightly chewy wrapper works well with the Jamaican-spiced ground beef, and the filling is exactly what you’d find in a patty. This sounds weird in theory, but when you eat it, it makes complete sense.

Ramen-crusted frog legs from Farm to Fryer

This is maybe the weirdest-sounding item of the three I tried, and you know what? It was my favourite. I’m not entirely convinced that anything should be ramen-crusted (the ramen bits straddled the line between pleasantly crunchy and overly hard/dry), but the frog was freshly fried and very tender, with the texture of a good chicken wing. My expectation was that this would be cooked in advance and dry, so I was pleasantly surprised by how well-prepared it was (and the sweet chili sauce it was topped with was tasty).

I guess it was a good thing I couldn’t find the cheesecake, because I was three for three, and I can’t imagine pickle cheesecake would have been particularly palatable.