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Interior shot of the Restaurant

Went to Mangia and Bevi Resto-Bar last Saturday, the restaurant is hidden on Ontario St., east of King and Sherbourne, which is actually just a couple blocks away from where I work at Autodesk.  Two thirds of the menu was made up of pizzas and a few appetizers and pasta.  The liquors available at the “bar” were quite limited, so I didn’t order anything to drink.  The restaurant seemed more or less like a family run business, with little kids running around ruining whatever bar atmosphere they had left.

Although the menu was filled with pizzas, only two people in our group ordered them which was kind of surprising.  I’m not sure about how authentic the place is supposed to be.  Heck, I don’t even know what authentic pizza is supposed to be like, so I won’t comment about that.  I ordered the Atene pizza, which had tomato sauce, mozzarella, red onions, anchovies, black olives, egg, oregano.  The waiter was happy to make adjustments to the toppings on the pizza, which was great because I wanted to see what the egg on the pizza was all about.  I replaced the anchovies with smoked provolone.

Atene Pizza

It was at least pretty interesting to see an egg on my pizza, I was expecting something like scrambled eggs, not a whole sunny side up egg baked right in the middle of the pizza. I wasn’t too sure of how to eat it so I just broke it and spread the yolk around a little. The pizza was good, although the problem with eating thin crust pizzas or flat bread is that it tends to gets pretty cold easily, so the pizza got cold and a little soggy from the egg.  Overall the food was alright, although the rest of my group found the pasta to be mediocre.

(Again, apologies for the cellphone camera)