Village Pantry — Restaurant in Edwardsburgh/Cardinal

I appreciate that the younger staff who make the pizza are well trained and courteous. The food is always fresh and prices are okay. Their Canadian pizza isn't made with real bacon which is a HUGE disservice to the quality cheese and great dough. The entrance is really awkward especially for those limited physically (also zero wheel chair access). Floors need to be replaced. They NEVER have coffee made which is a real head scratcher for a convenience store/bakery/take out place. I was once told people usually get coffee across the street at the other convenience store. Made me giggle. Decent place for a stop by all accounts.

Edit update for owner response: Okay I bumped the food up to a 4 for my bacon comment being the only issue I have had, so fair enough. Bacon crumble is a pork by-product and not real bacon that is the traditional found on a 'Canadian' pizza. I get its cheaper but you can advertise 'bacon crumble' instead of claiming you use bacon as stated in the store. Simple. I'm sorry but the floors stand out as soon as you walk in. As an establishment which sells food this is restauranting 101. Luxury vinyl flooring (lvf) has existed for 25 years and is available in wood and tile patterns. It has a commercial warranty, lays on top of existing flooring without glue/nails, is textured to prevent falls, washes with a mop (100% waterproof), and locks together. Completely preserving the original floors if you ever wanted to refinish them. It is by far the cheapest flooring for labour costs because you could easily do the front of the shop in a day. Coffee only served in the morning got it. But it's so good with baked goods! Maybe on cold winter Saturdays when locals are at the rink? wink wink Thanks for hearing my feedback, I...

Edit as of May 25, 2025. Ordered pizzas. Used to be my favorite place for pizza. Ordered a medium Hawaiian with extra sauce and extra pineapple. It's like they went complete opposite. Hardly any pineapple or sauce as well as the pizza was a size small at best. I literally fit 2 slices on my 1 hand side by side and the crust was very very thin. Like I have said before many times and also in my other review, I get that you need to increase cost for the customer as your cost increases too. However that doesn't mean the quality of your food needs to go down. Ever since the new owners and the most of the old staff left it's been going downhill and that sucks because it's an amazing place. . . . I am a local. I stop all the time at the pantry. I am giving the food a 2 star...not for the taste as it is still amazing as always.....but for the portions/lack there of. Used to be able to get a small poutine for $7 and it was a good size for a small. Now it is $9.61 with tax for half that size....I ordered a turkey sub...price went up..I understand that....but if you raise the price why are you removing the amount of ingredients that are put on it also? They used to be packed and now your lucky to get a handful of anything on it. Maybe it's the staff that just don't know how much to add? Either way I get it that prices have went up for everything but please don't raise the price and remove/cheap out on ingredients....I have stopped buying anything other than pizza because of this and...

Stopped for pizza and baked goods at this location before, it has been good, however yesterday we tried the Steak Sub. BIG MISTAKE!! Paid $39 dollars for 2 steak subs, EXTRA STEAK ON ONE (which we didn't got) and 2 cokes. I asked about the extra STEAK was told it was there (but it wasn't) meat was soaked in BBQ sauce (we didn't asked for it and we weren't told about it) it was like having pull pork but with a mystery meat. Subs weren't wrapped as all subs are and given on a pizza box instead, when I looked at it and asked why I was told because they are hot can't be wrapped (Really?) Never the last I asked for foil paper, I wrapped it myself and tried to put it together in the box as it was honestly a mess. We seated outside to try to eat it but it was difficult to get past the taste. Got back inside asked the older lady in there what sauce they used, she said BBQ, I made her aware that it wasn't good but instead of getting a professional reply, she shrugged off the shoulders and made a noise just dismissing...