You can’t go wrong with pizza. From coast to coast to coast, in small towns and big cities alike, pizza brings people together. What started as a flatbread with tomato sauce, with or without cheese, brought to Canadian shores by Italian immigrants has become a staple.
It all began with the Italians, but since Canada’s first pizzeria, Pizzeria Napoletana , opened in Montreal in 1948, countless communities have made pizza their own. The Greeks created regional styles with staying power in the Maritimes and the Prairies — not to mention what might be the most divisive pizza of all time, Hawaiian. Indian, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese immigrants have merged flavours and techniques from their homelands to make something entirely new.
Canadians are among the world’s greatest pizza lovers, according to the Centro Studi Italia Canada . We wanted to know where the best pizzas are in Canada, so we asked our readers. As the results of Postmedia’s great Canadian pizza poll show, while people appreciate big chains such as Boston Pizza, Domino’s, Little Caesars, Panago, Pizza Hut and Pizza Pizza, our readers’ favourite spots are mostly independent pizzerias or locally owned small chains.
Windsor is far and away the country’s top pizza destination at 35 per cent of responses, followed by Regina (11 per cent), Toronto (nine per cent), Montreal (eight per cent) and Edmonton (five per cent), rounding out the top five. Armed with our poll results, I embarked on a summer pizza pr.