Boston Pizza
- April 23, 2007
- Rated 2 of 5 by
Sask99 from Melville, Saskatchewan
As a rule we like to go to Boston Pizza, although I wouldn't select the "South Trail" location again. In general Boston Pizza serves good American-style food including pizza, pasta, and various sandwiches. Our favourites include the Santa Fe Stromboli, the Chicken Ciabatta, and the Boston Brute. On this visit, however, they were out of ciabatta buns, which we didn't find out until around 15 minutes after we had ordered. Since our guest was on her dinner break this left little time to choose a substitution. The waitress suggested a substitution of toast which we chose for hopefully a speedier service. (It turned out to be regular bread not Texas toast which was not a good choice.) We were not offered a discount even though they had a lesser quality substitute. Calgary is a city that is struggling to find good employees no matter where you seem to go so you may not always get top notch service. Our waitress was pleasant enough but not too good, as she neither wrote down our order nor remembered it the first time and had to come back and ask again what we wanted.
In typical Boston Pizza style it took over an hour for us to finish our lunch. This is not the place to go if you are in a hurry.
Customers next to us had left quite a mess on the floor which sat for a good 10 minutes before staff started to clean (and they weren't even that busy).
Boston Pizza is a family friendly restaurant and reasonably priced (the food is anyways for around $10 for a hot specialty sandwich although the milk was $3, but the non-stop pop with the meal was only $2.59). Sports fans will like the TV's that have various sporting events turned on.
From journal A Week in Calgary