Levetto

Great little spot.
Gf and I came a while ago on a cold night. Lots of tables to sit and eat, it seems 75% of the orders are takeout. I might be one of those in the future. Now that is not saying the service was low, it was good. I would just rather sit home and watch tv.
I had Bolognese dish and it was great. Well made. Gf dish was good too.

Went there for the first time today. I loved the casual atmosphere — you order at the counter and they bring you the food. The service was great — they forgot about one of our orders and when we asked them about it, they were very apologetic and offered to discount the dish.
The food was awesome — good portions and reasonably priced.
We will go back for sure to try the other items of the menu!

Do I have a love for pizza? Yes, yes I do. Which brings me to Levetto on Sudbury! A small venue with a trendy interior and eats for all. It’s got long tables for seating, so go up to the counter, place your order and grab a seat. Don’t forget your drink at the counter!!!
We sat down and waited. We had made a reservation, so they knew we were coming. We had a group of about 15 AND it was busy, but half of the food arrived and then the rest about 15min later. It was a kind of awkward. Luckily, some ordered more than 1 item, so they didn’t starve.
The food did not disappoint.
Everyone who ordered pasta raved and enthusiastically tried to share with everyone because the portion was so big and they had ordered pizza too. When the gal from Italy says it’s good pasta, it’s good pasta. For pizza, I ordered the Pollo Tuscano. A perfect size for 1 person. It had chicken, sundried tomatoes, tomato pesto, red onion and fresh basil. The toppings were fresh and tasty, very flavourful. The star here was the crust. So buttery, fluffy and crispy. Out of all of the pizza places I’ve been, this crust is my favourite. Someone gave me a slice of their Patate pizza. I’d never had pizza like it. It had thinly sliced potato, white truffle oil, ricotta cheese, rosemary and green onion. I expected it to be heavy because there was potato and ricotta, but it wasn’t. It was OK. It wasn’t as flavourful as I’m used to, but I’d never had a white pizza before. I’m told as far as white pizza standards go, this one was pretty awesome.
An added bonus to us checking in on Unilocal,gave us free dessert! WOO! I got the Warm Brown Butter & Coconut Cake. It was covered in pistachios and coconut icing. It was small, but you couldn’t finish it. Many of us were sharing desserts because they were so rich. The cake was moist and had just the right amount of coconut. About halfway through the cake, I was done. It became too sweet, but it was a nice finish to the savoury pizza.
My favourite pizza so far! Wish I lived closer so I could pick some up.

I had such a great experience eating here last Friday night. Kam, the President of Levetto, invited us back and Executive Chef Shahir was kind enough to cook for us. We really didn’t enjoy our food the first time but because the staff and the actual service was really nice, we decided to give Levetto another chance.
We had the arugula salad with chicken breast and the trecce. The arugula salad was really good. I liked the addition of dried apricot which I have not seen before. I would give it a ⁹⁄₁₀ (not ¹⁰⁄₁₀ because it didn’t completely blow my mind). The trecce had a really nice heat to it thanks to the chili flake. It was quite unique.
Now, the desserts was so insanely good. The warm brown butter and coconut semolina cake was the best cake I have ever had (¹⁰⁄₁₀ for sure)! Every time I took a bite, it’s almost like I forgot how good it was and then I got to relive the incredible experience again. We also had the panna cotta which was also excellent.
I guess I just came in on a bad night the first time I had Levetto. I’m really glad I gave it another chance. It is a restaurant I recommend because the food is good and the service is really, really excellent.

I blame you Unilocalers for setting unrealistic expectations. I had succumbed to your reviews and came in with guns blazing, high as a kite and expected this pizza to change my life! I sincerely believed this stuff would give me wings but I would I have to say it left me a little grounded.
It is refreshing to have Detroit style pizza finally make it’s way to the great TDOT. For those who are not familiar with pizza 101 (yes, this stuff was invented by the Chinese and so is pasta! :P) the trademarks of a good Detroit pizza consist mainly of 2 things; it’s square (wow) and it’s made with a Sicilian style dough similar to focaccia bread (light, porous and lacks chew). With that in mind, yes this pizza is a success in terms of representing the Motor City. Without a doubt this pizza is fresh, light and somewhat delicious. The dough is crispy, fluffy and definitely lacks the «chew» of traditional stuff. The ingredients are fantastic and fresh. It’s a well put together pizza.
Now, on to the complaints. This thing is satisfying yet somehow lacking at the same time. Satisfying in terms of good taste but also lacking as some flavours are quite muted while others are overpowering and one dimensional. What it means is that if you wanted mushroom. mushroom is what you’ve got and lots of it. Your senses are over burden with this one flavour but unfortunately there’s nothing else to balance it. You get an exorbitant amount of olive oil, some hints of herbs and cheese that is felt but not so much tasted. The salad again are very one dimensional. The cheese to greens ratio needs to be sorted out as I felt like I was chomping on a goats cheese salad with sprinkles of green. I am a big fan of big bold flavours and over-​the-​top amounts of herbs, spices and cheese but only if those can be balanced out with something to cut it. In this case, bold one sided flavours are great for the first few bites but gets overwhelming after that.

Chef Shahir has put together a fantastic menu at an incredible price point!
Two of us had the Romaine, Carbonara, Rigatoni, and Coconut Cake. All were full of flavour, well cooked (especially that homemade pasta), and more than filling.
Add two cups of wine and it was a great meal for two in our cozy neighbourhood. I would highly recommend Levetto and can’t wait to go back!

Fast-​casual dining. Good for takeout and if you are looking to have a quick bite. I had the smoked prosciutto pizza and a glass of wine, both which I would not recommend. My friend ordered the fungi pizza and it was a winner.

Ate here tonight with a friend. Overall it was very good. We split a medium sized sopresatta pizza. I really enjoyed it despite the sausage being very salty. I have eaten sopresatta many times but usually home made or from an Italian butcher in Montréal and it was far better and less salty, although seeing it is only a topping on a pizza then one that they used was adequate.
So for the pasta, I had the carbonara. Very good although I found it to be a little dry. A touch of olive oil would have helped, but still very good. The rigatoni is what my friend had. It was great. The braised beef was excellent, the sauce itself was great. The pasta itself was perfectly al dente, just how I like it.
We each had a glass of Chianti. Not a fan of Italian wine but it did the job. No complaints.
To sum it up, good food, good quality and fresh ingredients, reasonably priced. Definitely a thumbs up !

Excellent Italian restaurant, with a very good value for money.
Dishes come in ceramic tableware, with stunning food plating.
Large range of Salads, Pastas and Pizzas.
Obviously the Pizza is the main event, but the Pastas are pretty tasty as well.
The very modern look and feel of the place disconnects a little bit with the authenticity of the food. But except this little detail, I would definitely recommend Levetto for a true Italian dinner

I have my weekly craving for the spicy pizza.
Always great service but always a line up.
Go à little early as you may wait to get in.

Came here again and found out I can mix and match the pasta and sauce! We ordered the Carbonara sauce with Rigatoni pasta, much better combination! The pasta was less packed, the portion was just right with the sauce ratio. We also had the Affumicato Pizza, it came with lots of smoked bacon and mushroom, we prefer this over the Soppressata Pizza we had last time because it was loaded with more tasty ingredients. For dessert this time we ordered White Chocolate Tiramisu, it was light and creamy. They also sell glass bottled Coke there, a nice touch. Overall another satisfying meal.

I had an amazing time at Levetto. I visited this establishment with a group of fellow foodies. We were all very excited to visit this place and I must say that the food and the service surpassed our expectations. We were a considerably large group and although there is limited seating we were able to get a reservation. Our server Dev was fabulous and was prompt at getting us all drinks.
We started our meal with the arugula and romaine salads. I preferred the romaine which had a nice dressing and savoury crispy bacon. For the next round we all shared a selection of pasta dishes — tagliatelle, carbonara and rigatoni. I was impressed by how fresh the pasta was. All the sauces were delicious! My favourite was the tagliatelle. We also had a round of pizzas. I loved the Margherita pizza.
We were all stuffed at this point but really wanted to see what their desserts had to offer. I shared the tiramisu and the warm brown butter coconut semolina cake with a friend. While the tiramisu was passable the semolina cake had the perfect amount of sweetness. The pistachios added a great texture and flavour to the dish.
Overall, we had a memorable experience and this place is definitely my new local favourite for freshly made pasta. It also helps that it is really close to my house :).
PS: If you check in with Unilocal,you get a free dessert with your meal!

I’ll start off by saying the food is really good here. I’ve had the pizza before at an Elite event not long ago so I sort of knew what to expect as far as that went but this time around I was going to try some pasta as well.
The set up of this place is casual. You go up and order and pay at the counter and they’ll eventually bring what you ordered to you. This type of set up is not uncommon at all. It reminds me sort of what Stoney’s Bread does except here they don’t give you a number I’m guessing because the place is small and they’d know who has what based on the quantity of sit down areas they would serve.
Our area was a larger put together seating area to seat about a dozen of us. I went up to the counter and ordered an arugula salad and medium potato pizza for my wife while I had ordered a large spicy soppressata pizza and a pasta carbonara for myself.
The sizes of the pizza are by number of slices. Each slice is about 5×5 inches (square). Smalls are 4 slices, mediums are 6 and a large is really 2 mediums at 12 slices.
Now as I said the food was good and I really liked everything. One thing that is quite noticeable is this place is busy and our server seemed sort of inundated. Another person who was with us who had ordered a beer ended up bringing it with herself back to the table after ordering. I had ordered a Peroni (bottle) and had to wait for a good 15 to 20 minutes before getting it. I had asked our server for my beer or if I should go up and get it and she said she’d bring it to me. It took longer than I had wanted needless to say.
The food came at different times for our table but my large took up a lot of the table. I had asked around if anybody wanted a slice as it was a lot and I had wanted to share, some were able to grab a slice and try which was nice. After our food had pretty much been eaten for the most part everybody was done and we were sort of concentrating on the baseball game on the TV near the front counter.
I had gone back up to the front counter and ordered a dessert for my wife (tiramisu) which was free with the Unilocal check in and I had ordered her a cappuccino as well as I had ordered a San Pellegrino blood orange soda which is my favorite. Again, I should have probably asked for my can of pop instead of returning to my seat. Maybe about 15 minutes later our server brought 3 tiramisus out and we were passing them around. My wife didn’t like it that much as she said it was a little heavy on the rum. I don’t really care for dessert really as I just tried a small piece.
My wife’s coffee still wasn’t made. Maybe it’s just me but when you get your dessert and you order coffee they usually come at the same time or the coffee is first? I had asked our server again if we were going to get our drinks and she said she’d be bringing them. My wife eventually did get her coffee but my can of pop still wasn’t brought to me. This is a good 20 minutes after I went to the counter and paid for it which is about 20 feet away from where I sat.
Eventually I was guessing that my server forgot I had ordered a can of pop with the dessert and coffee so I just went up to the front counter again and had asked somebody about it. It’s sort of an open kitchen so I can see the server doing something else to the side as well as others working making dishes etc. My pop was sitting at the side of the counter where it was finally handed to me after waiting for 2 other things (coffee and dessert) that had to actually be made. What I was waiting for was in a can ready to drink and I didn’t get it until I finally had to go up and ask for it again and I was thirsty and sort of fed up at that point.
I had also asked for a box for our left overs because I had an entire 7 slices left, enough to fit into a medium box. The dishes sat on our table for a good 30 minutes+ after everybody was done.
Now it’s sort of obvious that this place is busy but I really didn’t like the service here. The food was good, very good but I just can’t get over having to wait for drinks after asking numerous times. If I had known it was going to be such an issue I’d stand at the counter and wait for it until they gave it to me if that in fact is what I’m supposed to do. I’d rather have it handed to me right upon ordering than the order being either forgotten or taking anywhere from 20 minutes to 30 minutes or never unless I eventually go up and ask for it again.
I’m not a fan of having dirty dishes living on the table for the entire time especially planks taking up all sorts of space in front of us while we’re trying to figure out where we can put our dessert dishes down to be able to eat from them.

We ordered a Bucatini pasta ($ 10.50), a medium Funghi pizza ($ 14) and a Warm Brown Butter & Coconut Semolina Cake dessert ($ 6).
The Bucatini pasta tasted great. Levetto makes their own fresh pasta in home made sauce. The acidity and spiciness of the sauce hit me a bit, but it wasn’t too bad. The amount of sauce was just right. There was enough sauce to cover the pasta completely, but not too much to be watery. The portion was sufficient. The pasta earned 5 stars.
Levetto pizzas are available in regular thickness, not in thin crest. The Funghi pizza we had was delicious. There were generous quantity of mushrooms and cheese. The dough was fresh, not chewy. The bottom of the pizza had a slight crunch. The thicker crest was the reason a small pizza was so filling. I happen to like thin crest a lot, so the pizza earned 4 stars from me.
The Coconut Semolina Cake was quite good, too. For $ 6, the portion might look small initially. Don’t be fooled. The cake was so rich that it took 2 people to savour it. The dessert earned 4 stars from me.
Levetto bakes the pizza, cooks the pasta and makes the dessert upon receipt of order. You get freshly made food at reasonable price. The compromise is the services is slower. Levetto may be a take out place; it is definitely not a fast food place.

Crunch crunch… crunch crunch…(the sound of me eating my pizza). Pizza should never be crunchy. Unfortunately mine was. Le the review begin!
Came here on the famous quest for the perfect pizza. It’s gotten some rave reviews so I was excited to try it. This is a small place that can’t hand large groups — it seems more like a joint for take out. You also order and pay at the front and then they bring you your meal — they don’t have traditional wait staff to take your order.
I’m a simple girl looking for a simple meal. I find that the best way to tell how good a restaurant is, is by a simple meal. The fewer the ingredients means the chef must be able to cook it t perfection because there is no hiding the bad taste. I chose the Margherita pizza. Tomato sauce, cheese, basil. Simple. Well after waiting about 20 minutes for my pizza it finally arrived (my small which is 4 pieces and enough for me. Medium is 6 slices and I think Large is about 12 slices so a medium would be perfect for most people if you are not sharing). It was burnt. And no basil. No explanation on why no basil when it was dropped off. So basically I got a cheese pizza. I went back up and requested the basil but was told they ran out of basil and just had some scraps. I took the scraps because that’s what I ordered.
As I crunched my way through the pizza I was pondering the age old question — is this good enough? I came to the conclusion that it was not. The prices are reasonable and the vibe is chill. You can get salads (which were actually a pretty big portion) and pastas as well. The menu is small with a few options in each category — which is nice because I can’t stand too many choices — why make life complicated when you can make it with cheese?
I will however try this place again because everyone else enjoyed their pizza and pasta and judging by all the previous reviews this place exceeds at what it does. Maybe just an off night… no doughs about it ;)

We came here on our infamous quest for perfect pizza.
This place serves square shaped, thick crust Romana pizza. I ordered Pollo Tuscano (chicken). Crust was thick and flavourful. Chicken was fresh. Expect stretchy cheese with every bite. You can tell that this place does not cut corners when it comes to ingredients and is more interested in making a great quality pizza rather than simply making a quick buck from potheads.
Prices are very reasonable. Sizes are a little tricky, small = 4 slices, medium = 6 slices, large = 12 slices. In case you are wondering, yes small should be enough to fill you up. Remember to leave room for complimentary dessert upon checking in.
While this cozy place is mainly for takeout orders, they sure put on efforts to accommodate our dine in experience. Proper plates, bowls, and silverware. I was impressed by how the staff handled our table of 8 even though they were getting takeout orders left and right. They serve Alcoholic beverages here. Clean, modern washrooms.
Overall great place. I strongly recommend Levetto to those who like ‘em thick (I’m talking about the pizza crust). Perfect for takeout and catering.

Wow. This place is better than pizzeria libretto and I am not exaggerating. We didn’t get to dine but had take away since the place was packed (not many tables to begin with). Who cares though when the food is amazing?! AND CHEAP.
Pollo toscano 8.5– ahhhhhmaaaazzzingggggg
Funghi 7.5 — that truffle oil … Delicious
Panna cotta 5 not bad but free tastes pretty damn good
I can’t wait to try the pasta! Everything is made from scratch. The pizza crust/​dough was unreal. I could eat that all day. So impressed.
If you check in you get a free dessert — which they can pack away for you if you’re doing take away! Woohoo! Winning :)

Gord and I had supper this evening at Levetto. We tend to get take-​out fairly often (once or twice a month) from them.
I got what I always get … a mild Soppresata pizza. As usual, it was delicious! I ordered a medium pizza so I could take some home for lunch tomorrow.
Gord bounces back and forth between a pizza and Carbonara … this evening he got Carbonara.
Michelle took good care of us!

I made a reservation here for my coworkers and myself for dinner. There were 7 of us so we definitely needed a reservation. I am not sure if they normally take reservations since the location is rather small. It is self order, so you go to the counter to order and pay, but they bring the food to you.
We didn’t know that it was self-​order, so we sat at our table for a good 15 minutes and no one came over to us. Finally we went up to the bar and asked, and they told us that we had to come up… odd that they wouldn’t have told us that when we checked in. The cashier was not very friendly/​helpful. Someone in our group asked about white wines they had and she pointed behind her to the wall that had the bottles on it. Now we could see those, but it is hard to read what kind it is when it is up on a shelf…
Most everyone ordered wine with the exception of one person who ordered a beer. When the wine came, we asked for waters (which never came), but the wine was honestly about half of what you would expect in a standard pour at a restaurant. The beer was poured into one of those plastic glasses that you would get at a cafeteria or a golden corral. It w just really weird that they didn’t have glass beer glasses because the wine came in Ridel glasses. Just peculiar
We waited over an hour for our food to be delivered. The restaurant did seem to be almost full, but just would never have expected that kind of wait. People all around us who came in later got served well before we did.
When we finally did get our food, it was delicious! The portions were huge! All the girls had leftovers for lunch as did a few of the boys.
When we were just about finished, one of the managers came up to us and apologized for the long wait. He said he was going to bring desserts for us complimentary to the table. He brought us like 2 of each of the desserts they had that night (3 dessert plates)… They were quite good and honestly really made me feel a lot better about waiting… It was not as if they were just ignoring us, I guess they were just understaffed or something.
Just as a note, the reason for the missing 4^th star is not because of the wait time, as they recognized that and tried to amend it, but rather for the servers never bringing water, being rude when we were ordering, and the minimal wine pours…
Overall, I will try to go back again as it really was good food. I will just not be ordering wine.
** Edit **
Went back again. Ordered a salad and a pasta. I was able to eat about ¼ of each. Portions are so huge. The service this time was a complete opposite from the time I came before. From order to me leaving the entire process was 30 minutes and the server checked on me twice asking if things were ok. Great experience. Personally, I enjoyed the pesto pasta that I got the first time a bit better than the pasta that I ordered this time, the Carbonara. Still good, just a personal reference, could be that I adore pesto… but either way, great service this time, quick, lots of food, and polite!

Self seating and self ordering but they bring the food to your table :) It is a bit informal, but they make for it with the quality of their food.
Their specialty is rectangular, romano-​style pizza which is done from scratch by the young chefs working in open kitchen. The chicken pizza is awesome, big chunks of organic chicken, while the prosciutto pizza has so much prosciutto on it my tongue shriveled from the salt (not complaining though) :)
The dough is amazing and they use top-​quality cheese. The ambiance is a bit bare, but that’s the vibe they want to convey.
Prices are great for what you get, and would easily cost 2x much in some of the snobby Italian places on King West.