Pizza Bread
From $4.95Fresh from the oven — garlic bread $4.95 · garlic bread with cheese $5.95 · focaccia $4.95 · dough balls with three dips $6.50. Garlic bread and dough balls are vegan.
Our Craft
Four things we obsess over
Same neighbourhood pizzeria since 2014 — sourcing locally and from Italy where it counts, and finishing every pie at 850°F.
The Dough
A 130-year-old recipe from Giffoni Valle Piana, made with Italian “00” flour — smooth, light, with just-right stretch.
The Sauce
San Marzano tomatoes, only. Sweet, low-acid, and left to speak for themselves.
The Cheese
Fresh mozzarella from Prince Edward County — plus VEGCHEESE vegan truffle cheese from right here in Toronto.
The Meat
Handcrafted by the Belaga family: nitrate-free and naturally smoked.
Our Story
850 Degrees started in 2014 with a simple question: what would it take to make a truly great pizzeria feel like it belonged to the neighbourhood?
The answer: the right people, great Canadian ingredients and amazing service.
Everything begins at the oven. It runs at 850 degrees Fahrenheit, bakes a pizza in about two minutes, and forgives nothing. Our pizzaiolos read the dough by feel and know exactly where the heat sits in the dome. On a packed Friday night they’ll turn out pizza after pizza without ever losing that leopard-spotted char.
The dough came to us from Giffoni Valle Piana in Southern Italy, a recipe more than 130 years old. We give it a long, slow rise, then top it with the best of what’s around us. Meats from the Belaga family in Southwestern Ontario. Mozzarella from Prince Edward County milk, delivered within a day. San Marzano tomatoes and nothing else. Italian technique, Canadian ingredients. Take a classic, make it an original.
Out front, the job sounds simple: look after people. Our servers know the regulars by name and the menu by heart. No TVs, because the room was built for food and conversation. If something goes wrong, which can happen, we try to fix it there and then rather than let a guest end their night unhappy. That’s not a policy. It’s just how a neighbourhood restaurant should behave.
Because the neighbourhood is the whole point. We’ve taught pizza classes to local kids, backed community hockey teams, and fed the film festival down the street. Plenty of our team started as students and stayed for years. Plenty of our guests started as strangers and became friends.
Come in hungry. Leave a regular.
The 850 Degrees team
