Pizzeria Via Mercanti - Toronto

Recommendation: Definitely try their pizzas and pastas! I prefer the tomato-based pizzas over the white pizzas.

We have been frequenting this restaurant for many years with my family.

I ate at this restaurant with a friend when I visited the city during the holidays. I would rate it 3.5 out of 5, with .5 deducted for the service.

The perfect dough and a very friendly and efficient service, in this large restaurant (the original, first of 4) and probably best pizza in town. Also the tomato sauce was great, as it was the mozzarella, the anchovies, the artichokes and mushrooms on the 4 stagioni. If you want to find an opportunity for improvement it would be in the olives, that felt too smoked and probably out of a can.Both the napoletana pizza (we tried one as proposed without mozzarella and another with mozzarella) and the 4 stagioni were spectacular. The fried mozzarella morsel as appetizer also quite good. Bravissimi!

Pizzeria Via Mercanti is a nice option for pizza and salad in Kensington Market.On my visit I had a $10 pizza and salad special. The salad was fresh and tasty, and the pizza was small, yet good. I found the pizza a bit bland, yet their flavourful chilli oil did the trick. If you are hungry, I recommend skipping the lunch special and going with the full-size pizza.Service is very good. One thing that is particularly nice here is that they have a decent amount of seating. If you are a guest to Kensington Market, it can be a challenge to find a restaurant that is both good and accommodating to groups of eat-in patrons. Via Mercanti manages to deliver on both counts.