Tom's House of Pizza — Restaurant in Calgary

I have been going to Tom's House of Pizza since I moved to Calgary in 1979. It is different from any other pizza in the world. it has a very thin delicious crust that is crunchy as you get to the edge. They put a thin layer of sauce on that and some people get bent when they order extra sauce and it seems to then like it was skimped on. A thick layer of sauce will destroy this pizza, a little sauce goes a long way. Unlike other pizza places, Tom puts their cheese blend on next and it works out well this way, and again,extra cheese does not help this pizza, it throws off the proportions. It kills me to read negative reviews on this place by people who think all pizzas need to be a thick doughy blob with an ocean of sauce all covered in a 1/2in. thick rubbery blob of mozzarella. Tom's serves their pizzas with a smaller proportion of cheese than the thick pizza places.Then, the whole reason their pizzas are fantastic Topping time. Veggies are the same as any other place but as an example the mushrooms can shine because they were aPplied raw and as they cook down rather than be rubberized by cheese, to he juices mingle with the juices of the meat, the pepperoni, the salami, and their shining star, their special made to order for them alone (, as with their pepperoni and salami) their super peppery crumbly Italian sausage, a flavor not found anywhere else as Nd one that people such as I actually crave. It is a different trip totally but taken on its own merits it is a trip you might repeat regularly for the rest of your life. one of the top 10 lifetime foods for me . I get the Big Lance with extra Italian sausage and extra anchovies. it is definitely an eccentric choice of and it is maximum edible saltiness and raunchiness, but it is also a umami bomb and a crave killer of epic proportions, satisfying beyond all...

Tom's House of Pizza is an insult to Tom's, houses and pizza. First off, you'll be expected to pay for your order up front even if you dine in and you'll be too Canadian not to tip but sadly you would have tipped to place your own order and get your own drinks. They're too busy making substandard pies. The meat lovers and mushroom pizza we got was generous with its meat but only had a mere whisper of cheese over an 12'' circle. The mushrooms were raw and just thrown on the top like packing peanuts, totally inedible. The most fundamentally offensive bit though was the shaker of 'parmesan cheese' on the table. Some sort of bizarrely sweet, dried milk-product the color of earwax and the consistency of Tang. Absolutely shameful to serve in a House of, allegedly, Pizza. We were starving and needed to get to the I Love the 90's Tour concert (which was absolutely sick by the way) so we ate what we could. We are still reeling from the fact that this place is offending Calgarians using a five-location web of pizza deceit and powdered sadness. What a waste of a free day meal....

I have been going to Tom's for more years than I can count. I probably first discovered it as an alternative to Denny's for after-bar food as a kid (they're open really late on the weekends), but the pizza has stood the test of time. The best experience is to eat in, because it comes right out of the oven and to you, but I will never say no to take-out from Tom's, either. The CJ's combo is their house special and is awesome, but I always gravitate to just straight-up pepperoni - they pile it high! We now get pizza for our family here, decades later. I've not tried it, but I have it on good authority that the gluten-free pizza is "actually edible," which I guess is a thing and quite a success. :) Tom's...