Hand's down the best New York style crust pizza in Fairmont. Thus, in my opinion, the best pizza in Fairmont. It's also quite inexpensive. I think a large one topping pie comes to under $14 with tax. I can't give it more than 4 stars though because, while it's always tasty, the pies haven't been consistent. They seem to skim on ingredients from time to time. Once, after taking a pie home, I opened the box to find it was about 2" smaller than normal. I called, and the manager/owner just wanted to argue about how they're always the same, and always the right size. Well, we measured it, and it was, in fact, 2" too small. I assume it was maybe the same amount of dough, and the crust seemed a bit bigger, but I'm sure since it was considerably smaller we didn't get the same ingredients we usually pay for. We've ordered many times since then, and the pies have, again, been pretty consistent, though we do think they've really cut down on the toppings and are getting a bit cheap with their portions.
We got a large pepperoni pie last night, and while we were pleased, and there was an ample amount of cheese, we actually counted the pepperoni's and compared it to the pizza they have photo of on their Facebook page and there were 17 fewer pepperoni's on it. And no, the pizza on their page isn't an extra pepperoni (there's one of those a customer posted on their page, and it's easily got twice the pepperoni's of their photo), as we've gotten the regular, 1 topping pepperoni's many times, and had significantly more pepperoni.
So that's a disappointment sometimes, not knowing if we will get a great pie or just a decent one.
The white pizza with spinach, tomatoes and onions is amazing. Their hoagies are also very good and reasonably priced. My brother and I are also wing fans, and we're not real high on Cantoni's wings, but your mileage (and tastes) may vary from ours. That we don't care for the wings isn't so much an issue with us, as this is our go-to pizza joint, and close to our house.
For the kids, there's a couple gum ball machines with trinkets, ala Pizza Hut (yuck) down the street, so there's something for the kids to look forward to. I would suggest adding a pinball machine, and we would probably dine a little more and buy some drinks.
We haven't dined in for probably over a year, and probably would dine in a bit more if there were a pinball machine (just a suggestion!) and, well, the fountain drink machine they've seemed to have trouble with in the past as I recall, quality wise.
All in all though we've always seen it as a clean and friendly place, fairly comfortable to eat in, and the food is quick and inexpensive. They have a few TVs as well and have accommodated us by putting on whatever ball game we wanted to watch when the Pirates were playing at the time we were dining.
So again, despite my few criticisms, this is still Fairmont's best pizza, and yes, we have now tried them all, including Muriales. There's a little room for improvement, but Cantoni's is the only place I really recommend to people that just want a place to go get pizza, and maybe a little something else for the non-pizza person in a group. read more
