Mediterranean Fire Pizza on Commercial Drive used to be just that, fire.
There were many a 3am on a Saturday night, on the way home stops, for a late dinner in the past.
I thought it is some of the the finest pizza in the city frankly. It wasn’t, strictly speaking, Neapolitan. It was a bit of a hybrid between Neapolitan and New York I suppose.
Well things have changed. How the mighty have fallen.
It now ranks right up there with Freshslice and Pizza Pizza
In other words, absolute shite.
They seem to have roughly the same variety of pizza by the slice.
There’s about 10 options there in front of you.
But the quality has declined. Considerably.
The cheese was greasy and flavorless. The toppings, meager as they were, very poor quality. My Capicollo looked like no Capicollo I have ever seen before. Didn’t taste like Capicollo either.
Sophia’s Chicken Caesar pizza had the same awful cheese and way too much of a way too garlicky sauce.
The Ephasus, a Mediterranean inspired pizza with olives, artichokes, tomatoes and spinach also left much to be desired. The flavour combination just didn’t work.
When asked about her opinion on her slice Merilynn’s reply was “I regretted breaking my fast for it.”
I am not sure what’s happened here. Did they get new owners and they have changed the recipes? Has inflation caught up to them and they switched to cheaper ingredients rather than raise their prices?
Whatever the case, the fire at Fire Pizza has burned itself out.
One bite you know the rules:
Merilynn 4.0
Greg 3.7
Sophia 5.0