Gus’s Cafe & Pizzeria

Aaack! I’m going to regret writing this review as I honestly believe Gus’ is one of Calgary’s hidden gems. Located at the base of a medical building across from Foothills Hospital, one unacquainted wouldn’t think to expect a whole lot given that restaurants on hospital or medical complex property are usually just only a tad better than what a porter might bring on a tray in to your hospital room…
Well Gus’ is far from that. Gus’ serves Greek/​Traditional style pizza and it’s delicious. The dough is baked to perfection and the topping are plentiful and fresh.
Take out is also an option, but because seats are always quite easy to come by, there’s no reason not to dine in!

Highly recommended. Everything on the menu tastes absolutely delicious. Pizza is best I ever tasted by far. The service is great too. You won’t be disappointed!

Fast service and food was delicious!!!
I wasn’t sure to eat here because of the way it looks from outside (part of an old building) but I gave it a try after reading good reviews on Unilocal.You can tell the ingredients are fresh and good quality. Clean place and friendly people.

I work in Foothills Hospital across the street and we ordered a bunch of pizzas for lunch for the department. We all absolutely loved it! The pizza is so so so tasty! Delivered exactly on time, everything made exactly to order, and everything cooked exactly right. I will lost definitely eat there again! I think this is the beat pizza I’ve ever had.

Pizza made with so much love it will make you cry.
This is absolutely positively most sincerely my most favourite pizza place in Calgary. Why? Greek style pizza made with fresh crust daily (even a couple times time throughout the day as far as I understand). The sauce and toppings are fresh and generous as well as the cheese… Oh the cheese… *drool*
A perfectly crafted pie that I know you will love! We love it so much we have ordered delivery and pickup even though it is further away from us.
What I recommend — Roma, Ceaser salad and super super yum garlic toast.
The staff are wonderful here as well. So wonderful they usually remember your last order and are very good with names and faces as their customers are always repeat ones in the community and surrounding area. The restaurant is small but always clean and there are always fresh carnation flowers set on the tables. The food is so good the staff eat at work every night at their own designated table!
Perfect pie. So do it!

When you work at FMC your lunch options are how you say, limited. Luckily, just across the street there lies Gus’s Café which makes some of my favourite pizza in the city.
They have about 12 tables inside the restaurant, but they offer a 6″ pizza which is perfect for lunch. You feel fancy sitting amongst all the healthcare providers, cause you can tell, they all have their AHS IDs out.
When we need to cater, Gus’s is perfect for it, other than pizza they offer a rockin’ greek salad to accompany your meal. I try to restrict the number of slices I eat, but when it’s Gus’s I usually have at least 3.
So very tasty. You can’t go wrong with any selection, but I dig the Gus’s special.

This is a small, somewhat Spartan family run restaurant In the Foothills Professional Building. Their main focus is pizza, and while my wife enjoys it, I’m personally not a big fan. The cheese is not quite bubbly or stretchy enough, and it is on the top, making the deli meats underneath a little poached rather than crispy. Maybe that’s your bag, but I’d suggest going with the ample and vibrant Greek salad, along with the quesadilla.

I tend to stop in here when I have appointments in this building. It’s delicious food — I heart the Roma pizza particularly, a veggie pizza topped with feta, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomotoes and some other things which are a bit different and quite yummy.
This is just a small place and it’s quite busy (hospital staff are regulars) so I’d make a lunch reservation or come early.
One thing I like best about lunching here is that they validate parking for the building there which can be quite pricey… thus, I like to grab a bite and head to my afternoon appointments with validated parking and some yummy pizza in my tummy.
To validate parking you need to park and go directly into the resturant. Tell the server (usually the owner) your plate and stall number and she’ll validate your parking in the system. No need to visit the parking meter or anything like that. I do have to warn you to remember and do this first thing after entering the lot — that lot is viciously patrolled and tickets are steep ($ 90).

Love the pizza! Great homemade taste! Staff are always pleasant! I work at FMC and when we’re doing pizza lunches for staff and docs. Gus’s is always requested! Just wish you were open a bit later for us nurses who finish work at 11:30pm!

I work at the hospital across the street and this evening myself and two friends from work decided to try out Gus’s. We ran over and were nervous when we saw that the restaurant was full save our reserved table (we only have a certain amount of time for dinner). Service was good and fast… the pizza my partners ordered looked great. my bruschetta as semi-​gross, only tomatoes and they were the mushy spongy kind. French onion soup was tasty. I’d go back, but for pizza or salad only.

I was meeting up with a large group of friends recently, and one of them recommended we go to Gus’s for dinner. I must say, it was an excellent choice! So one down side to this place is location. I’m from the south, I drive up to Foothills fairly often so I’m good with the route, but unfortunately this place is just a little bit beyond my general knowledge of the area so I did get lost trying to get into the parking lot. The other downside: I think you have to pay for parking. We were there on a Saturday night so the waitress said we didn’t have to, but it sounds like you would on other days.
Beyond that I really have nothing to complain about. It’s called a Café for good reason. It’s quaint and homey and is the same size and atmosphere as a café making it a really good place to hang out with friends. My group was about 20 and most restaurant staff would be kind of moody with a group of that size but they were really polite (granted we were the only people there). You’d also think with a group of that size ordering at once they’d be really slow at giving us our food (especially with only two kitchen staff) but they were on par with other places. They make mini pizza’s (6″) which I think is pretty sweet. The menu isn’t too fancy but they have some really good sandwich, and pasta choices, but the biggest seller probably is the pizza.
The one thing I really loved was that the waitress wasn’t pushy. We sat for hours after finishing our food just to talk, and the only reason we knew they closed at ten was because a couple of us asked, not because they were standing there trying to force us out.
All in all, great atmosphere, fabulous customer service, and pretty darned good food.

Expected painful experience for restaurant in this small Professional building across street from Foothills Hospital. Quite surprised to find great home-​y food — they even have great sizing on the pizzas — 6″ ones! And the Greek salad had no lettuce and good olives which was appreciated.

I’m sad to say that I am slightly disappointed by Gus’s Café. I was hoping that, since I moved in right across the street, this would be my new favourite place for lunch, dinner and late-​night take-​out. Sadly, it will not be my new most frequented place.
I find the food to be of a mediocre quality. I’m not sure what kind of cheese they use on their pizza, but it was very bland and not as yummy and cheesy as other pizza’s I’ve had. It did have a homemade feel to it, but not restaurant quality homemade… if that makes any sense.
The pasta I ordered for delivery one day also didn’t quite make par either. I was feeling particularly lazy one weekend and thought a nice, fresh pasta would really hit the spot. Unfortunately the pasta didn’t seem that fresh. The pasta on the bottom of the box was rather hard and crunchy, and the sauce was just poured on, not mixed around at all.
I will say that I quite enjoy the people working there. They are nice and always in a good mood to joke around with you. The prices of the food aren’t too terrible either. For the size of the proportions, it’s actually quite reasonable. I haven’t completely given up on Gus’s, but I won’t say it’s my favourite either.