Doppio Zero Pizza - Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Coquitlam

Remember the first hot person that walked up to you and hit on you?

You were just a bag of nerves, giggling, and awkward sentences just waiting to pour out of you. "Water? Do you drink water?" Yeah, Casanova...real smooth...

This place is the hot person, and you are you.

It's an ethereal realm of beautifully made food that just hits all of your deepest desires of what you want Italian food to be, what you hoped . It's the culmination of the centuries of food, culture, and beautiful mayhem that Italian cuisine embodies.

We had an antipasto starter of the crudo platter, which had generous portions of prosciutto, parma, capicollo, olives, and from what I was told, their own in-house-made mozzarella. If I died at that point, I would have died happy.

Next was the caeser salad, worthy of the Great Cardini himself. Fresh, crispy, anchovy and parmeggiano funky...it's what I imagine salad at the Coliseum would be like if I brought this salad with me and ate it at the top of the Coliseum. Delicious, delicious, delicious.

Next my mind gets hazy as the dopamine, serotonin and a host of other feel good chemicals in my brain hit levels unseen before. There was a pasta...fusili? People were laughing...was I with them? A glass of wine is shoved in my hand and a spoonful of this Bolognese caressed the flavour centres of my mouth the way a mother caresses her child's face to console them. "Shhh, my little one, it will be alright.." and it was. Oh, a piece of advice, if you don't eat something because it has visible oil, I feel bad for your joyless life. "If you're having sauce problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems, and this pasta ain't one."

The rest of the meal was a blur. Pizzas...two of...them...potato...pancetta...arugula...olives...it all hit me so fast that I didn't have a chance to get the licence plate of that truck. Oh, and the crust. This is how I want to be my funeral to be: Viking style, on a boat made of this crust and floating down a river of that Bolognese. You can shoot a flaming cannoli at it to set it ablaze.

Aside from all this magic, they also have chinotto! It's Brio (my second choice), but you can't expect your dream hot person to be perfect. After all they still are only human.

"Nessuno sta mangiando meglio di noi stasera". We did, my friends, we did...

P.S. oh and get the calamari fritti. If I come back to this Earth as a squid, this is the way I would...

Super racist staff. —— Not going to call you but here is the details of my visit for everyone to see.

This happened 2 years ago.

We reserved a table for 6 people. It was for me and my wife’s family who are Asian.

When we arrived 10 minutes early (there were only a couple other groups dining at the time) the manager, visibly angry at our existence, with crossed armed grumpily told us: “you’re early!”.

He asked his friend to show us to our table because he couldn’t be bothered. He walked away to the back mumbling things.

While we were ordering and waiting for our food the manager kept walking near our table, arms still crossed, giving us weird looks.

Before you say “oh he was just checking if the food has arrived” or something else, this wasn’t that. I’ve seen racism before. This definitely it.

The food arrived, we were having fun. Then my wife’s aunt found a rather large rock in her food. Which was really weird. I was reluctant of letting the staff know because of the manager but was also curious to see what he’d say.

We called a waiter and after explaining what we found he apologized and said will be back. He went to the back and I assumed talked to the manager. The manager then walked out and came to our table still very angry and asked what happened.

We said “Just letting you know we found a rock in the food.”

He then basically yelled at us: “what do you want me to do?”

Appalled by his attitude, needless to say we just wanted to finish eating, pay, and leave to never return. Which we did.

A couple days ago a group of my Asian friends were looking for good places to eat and I remembered my experience here so I thought I’d warn them. Then I realized I should probably write a review as well so others will know about it as well.

If you’re Asian, stay away from this place. I don’t know how they feel about other races. Enter at your own risk. The manager was very visibly kind to all other white patrons though. So if you’re white...

I had made a reservation January 16 for a table of 14 to 16 people for February 4 and I received a email confirmation that it was confirmed. The day before our reservation I receive an email saying that our reservation has been cancelled. I had called as soon as they opened that Friday asking why my reservation was cancelled. they were saying that no visa was given for a reservation that large when no one has asked me for a CC number to do this which would’ve been no problem. They had said they had tried to call me but my phone never rang my phone number was on the reservation . After some back-and-forth they kept our reservation. So we all order our food and drinks and start our meal. 90 minutes into a reservation the server comes up to us and says your time limit is up for your reso. Most of us were not even done meals I said this is a joke 2 hours is the minimum what I was told. Our reservation was supposed to be from 6 PM to 8 PM. We were treated well by the staff but we’re continuously getting looks to get out. Most of us did not even get to finish our drinks or get to even order a dessert by being asked your time is done. One of the Servers actually asked us if we wanted to go cups for our alcohol. this is crazy!!!! What kind of legal problems this could bring!! Now On to the food. It was mediocre at best. The pizza was bland and soggy for all of us. only good dish was one of the pastas we had. Most of us that were there that evening have friends or relatives in the restaurant business and this place was so disappointing for the way they run it. Never been kicked out of a restaurant without finishing drinks. Very disappointing I would’ve given it a doppio Zero (00)...