Freshslice Pizza

I like this place. The pizza is not stellar. It tastes great but the crust sucks being a little soggy due to conveyor oven use. They have slices ready to go that are outside the normal. Beef and cheddar, pesto and cheese, bacon and mushroom, things that are a little more exciting than just the pepperoni you find other places. The service has always been super friendly. The BEST part, though, is the price. I’ve been paying $ 1.25 per slice (any slice, any day the window says). That means lunch costs me a grand total of $ 2.63 taxes in. I’m very ok with that.

Freshslice pizza definitely isn’t the freshest of pizzas nor do they even have a proper oven, but I love the different varieties of pizza they do have. The pesto and garlic options are delicious and I really like the tomato sauce they use. The meat lover and garlic lover pizzas are my favorite. The balance of toppings to sauce to cheese to crust is pretty good so you really get all the flavors packed in one bite.
They have 1 $ slices on tuesday (pretty big slices too!) and they give out FREE slices of pizza and coupons on random days. I’ve probably had at least a pizza’s worth of free pizza. hehe
Not the best pizza in Toronto but not the worst. Good for cravings or just a simple meal. :D

I too have traveled around the world but I actually ate all kinds of food. Because of this I know what good food tastes like. Fresh slice is neither good food nor good pizza. In fact, this is easily the worst pizza I have ever had and that includes frozen store bought pizzas.
They do not have a giant pizza oven at this location (and I would guess they don’t at any other location) but instead the same rolling heat oven you will find in a pizza hut at a movie theatre or in Quiznos. That’s not how you cook a pizza unless it was prepackaged which these obviously were.
Fresh slice has all the freshness of a just opened McCain pizza box. The cheese is tasteless. The crust is dry and bland and the toppings have obviously been frozen for quite a while.
The proof is in the price and you certainly get what you pay for.

Alright, I know pizza. I know that’s a bold statement, but I’m basing it on the following events of my life. First, pizza was pretty much the only food I consumed during the 90’s, the other being hamburgers and french fries. Second, I have travelled to cities far and wide for the sole purpose of eating different pizza.
Now, in a city that’s a slave to the corporate ‘sauce and cheese on cardboard’ pizza chain giants Pizza Pizza and Pizzaiolo, Freshslice Pizza is a fresh change. Zing.
It’s my understanding that Freshslice uses whole wheat dough and low or non-​fat cheese. A taste difference you can hardly notice, and great for giving me the impression that i’m eating healthy. There’s a wide variety of topping options including spinach and pesto… two of my favorite toppings that are rarely seen at other pizza joints.
You also have to option of saving a few dollars, and taking an uncooked pizza home and cooking it yourself. I took this option once, with less delicious results. Live and learn. I suggest leaving the pizza cooking to the guys with giant pizza ovens.
The staff have always been super friendly to myself and other customers. Even on the busiest, hottest and most humid days they have had nothing but smiles on their faces. The place is always impeccably clean. I have never seen and empty pizza plate on a table or so much as even a crumb. I would seriously eat off of the floor at this place, it’s that clean.
The pizza at fresh slice never seems to loose it’s fresh taste. Even when i’ve popped in to get a slice and got one that’s clearly been sitting under a heat lamp for a while, it still maintains that fresh pizza taste and feel.
Freshslice pizza is the best pizza you can get from a chain in Toronto.