Carlito's Pizzaria — Restaurant in Banff

Amazed at how bad this is. In fact, so bad that it compelled me to write my first google review! We ordered their spaghetti and baked spaghetti for takeaway and it took about 25 mins. That’s quite long, but was willing to overlook it if good was good. We opened the pasta and was amazed at how horrid it looked. The spaghetti (before stirring it) just looked like the instant sort. And I’m quite sure that it’s just spaghetti with store-bought sauce because there’s no real ingredients in it at all. Also, the baked one was massively burnt at the bottom. Quite sure the spaghetti originally comes in these “takeaway boxes” and then they just plate it if you eat there. The spaghetti also comes with garlic toast - and if you see, it’s barely even toasted (only on one side) and there’s literally no garlic or even garlic oil at all. Maybe they forgot? Paid about $30 in total, which is honestly ridiculous. Getting an instant meal from the supermarket would have been cheaper and probably nicer than this. I don’t know how they can even call this place a restaurant!!...

Called in for an early evening meal as we'd walked for ages and skipped lunch. Empty when we arrived (unsurprising as it opened at 5pm and we sat outside waiting for it to open!). We were greeted at the door fairly quickly (considering, they had literally just opened and were in the process of setting everything up. Seating was varied with a choice of low tables, high benches and standard dining tables (nice to have a choice) and menus were delivered promptly. There are also signs on the walls, showing options. Prices were reasonable. They also had San Pellegrino drinks which are generally hard to find. Hubby ordered pizza and I decided that I needed to try the "best poutine outside Montreal". I'm not a lover of stodgy foods generally, being more of a seafood and salad girl but I think this could be my new favourite guilty pleasure. Whilst we waited for the food to arrive, more people showed up, including a few that had ordered/we're ordering...

We picked this pizza place based on the Google Review scores. We had never heard of Carlitos Pizza prior. The average score is 4 but we find that to be slightly high.

The man who answered the phone to take the delivery order was very patient and kind. He is very easy to communicate with.

The pizza itself is where the average score comes from. We ordered the Hawaiian pizza (because Pineapple DOES 🍍belong on pizza) but found that there was mostly just cheese. There wasn't much in the way of Pineapple and ham which is kind of the point. The thin crust was decent. More tomato sauce with more seasoning would have been appreciated but what we got was decent.

It was nice that they delivered right to our hotel room.

We in no way would dissuade people from eating from here. It is a decent average pizza 🍕place. One piece of advice would be to brand the box that gets delivered. It makes for great, cheap...