Pendeli's Pizza — Restaurant in Montreal

It's been weeks you've been just eating salads and kale smoothies. One night, you crack. Maybe it's your cheat day, maybe you just can't take it anymore.

You call the number, it rings just enough times for you to wonder if they'll even answer. Finally a deep throaty voice comes out of the phone: "...Pendeli's?", the voice says un-enthusiastically. He's embarrassed for you. Nevertheless you press on. "One large pepperoni pizza?" You say nervously. "That's all?" The man asks. He knows you're not done yet. "And a french fry. How long will it be?" "45 minutes to 1 hour." No big promises here.

Finally it arrives. You pay the man, and take your greasy, guilty pleasure inside. The structural integrity of the pizza box has already been compromised by the colossal meal inside. The brown paper bag of french fries is translucent from the oily fries, looking as if at any moment it'll rip open, fries bursting out frantically like troops on the beach at the battle of Normandy. You open the pizza box and gaze at it's contents: Cheese as thick as the crust, pepperoni as thick as the cheese! One might call this a bread cheese and meat casserole instead of a pizza!

When all is said and done, you sit there rubbing your belly, sipping your Pepsi, and telling yourself this was just a momentary lapse of will, but the Pendelli's man knows you'll be back again, and you know...

Our party of four (including two vegetarians) ordered on 12/04/2021 a vegetarian and a pepperoni pizza for "pick-up" and discovered two pepperoni pizzas in the "taped shut" boxes, upon arriving at home. Believing a cordial phone call would result in Pendeli's correcting their mistake with a home-delivered vegetarian pizza (after all they do deliver), we telephoned Pendeli's. The woman who answered the phone adamantly said they would not correct their mistake and deliver to us the pizza we had in fact ordered. We could only ourselves interrupt our celebration, spend more time and more gas money to come to Pendeli's with the pizzas we did get, in order to correct their error. This woman repeated her demands three times and she banged the phone down on us rudely. No apology and no attempt to reasonably compensate from Pendeli's representative! Think twice before ordering from Pendeli's and if you do, have your "taped" boxes opened and verified before you leave the restaurant! You don't want the disappointment and then nastiness that we all...

Waste of money. That's really unfortunate, as we were excited to try this place. We order a poutine, two pizzas (all dressed and pepperoni) and a doner plate. Everything was so bland and greasy, it was disheartening. The pizzas had a visible layer of oil underneath them. They felt undercooked: toppings came off. Between the all dressed and pepperoni, both had so much meat you couldn't distinguish one from the other. The ingredients are cheap. The cheese is plastic cheddar, the fries lack salt (on top of being visibly taken out from the freezer and not fried enough), the feta was dry, the doner was unsavory. Even a simple poutine was unimpressive, to say the least. They didn't bother to use grain cheese.

When the best part of the dish is the accompanying plastic lettuce salad, there is something wrong with your dish. Will not order from...