Famoso Menu Analysis

Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria, located on 1380 Commercial Drive, serves up rustic, and affordable Neapolitan style Italian food, while providing a quiet getaway from the heavy traffic of Commercial Drive. The menu offers up many Italian staples, such as a vast assortment of thin crust pizzas, a modest selection of pastas, and a variety of fire-bread sandwiches. Their dishes are all centered around the unique Campania tomato, a special tomato that grows in the volcanic soil at the base of the infamous Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic soil gives the tomatoes interesting properties, such as a deeper hue of red, a firmer and less acidic pulp, softer skin, and a sweet flavour that lingers on the tongue. To close your meal, the restaurant also offers a variety of classic gelato flavours, made from butterfat, in true Italian fashion, as well as several fat free sorbet options. Famoso provides a relatively cheaper alternative to Italian food along The Drive, but their food is nothing to write home about; the biggest drawback to their food is the quality of their ingredients, as well as their lack of innovation with said ingredients. It is apparent that the chefs have little freedom to play with the menu and experiment …show more content…
The food served is quite static and uninteresting, and the flavour profiles of the food are pedestrian. The price for the food is quite fair, which offers service to a specific demographic of people, looking for “authentic” Italian food on the Drive at a relatively cheaper price. Famoso almost acts as the counterpart to the slightly more up-class and expensive Marcello restaurant, across the street. For anyone keen on visiting Famoso I would recommend sticking to the dessert menu, as their gelato, is truly the best item on the menu. Despite the food being a major disappointment, I will still give Famoso 3 out of 5 stars, as the service and the atmosphere were far better than most restaurants I