Great place to get a non Pictou County style slice. Great price and the pizza is good!read more

We've had food from A1 Pizza in both Pictou and Port Hawkesbury. Both locations were very goodread more

It's not easy being a pizza place in Pictou County, and all the more so when the granddaddy of the…read morecounty's famous style of pizza is a literal stone's throw away. At first glance, Andre's dine-in menu is broader than that of your standard takeout joint, with over a dozen pasta options and several different wraps and salads, on top of the usual assortment of burgers, fryer fare and of course, pizza, that you'd expect. My wife and I first came by for an easy mid-week lunch while in the midst of labourious home renos. We didn't want to cook and needed out of the house. Knowing that I'd save the pizza experience for another time, I went for the donair sub. It had a decent amount of meat, although I couldn't get a read on the exact flavour of it, due to a hefty slathering of donair sauce. That said, Andre's deserves a tip of the cap for making both meat and sauce in-house, as opposed to much of their competition in the area which is often mediocre Bonte/Mr. Donair product. There was lots of melty mozza, and the bun was crisp from its time in the oven, so overall it was a very good iteration of this hot mess of a sandwich! My wife snagged an Andre's Salad, which comes with romaine, red onion, red peppers, zucchini, sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms, feta and parm. It's a subtle upgrade from your run-of-the mill garden salad with a better variety of flavours, and I eagerly partook to balance out the less healthy ingredients of my sub. Our return visit saw us getting takeout, and this time it had to be pizza! We took a pass on their respectable Friday night deal of two large pizzas for ~$36 due to an already full fridge and that being a lot of pizza for two people, and went with a single XL combination, plus the good ol' Andre's Salad for more significant veg content. The wait was quite good for a Friday night at around 25 minutes, although I was only placing the order at 7pm, so a little past dinner time for many families. Upon opening the pizza box, it was noticeably different, as although Pictou County-style pizza is known for having some browning of the cheese that covers all the toppings, Andre's was completely browned. There was even some crisp bits of cheese that had shattered a bit! While daintier taste buds may not be a fan, I'm all for this additional flavour and texture! Another distinguishing feature of Andre's pie is the crust - it's much thinner than that of other Pictou County-style places. That's not to say it's a thin crust, it just isn't a half-inch of dense dough. I assume most places do that to support the generous amount of toppings and cheese that are one of the defining features of the area's pizza, but Andre's thinner crust works just as well. Don't get me wrong, it's not a demonstrably great crust - the crust is dense and bready, with no airiness, and little-to-no leopard-spotting on the bottom crust and cornicione. Unfortunately, like all other Pictou County pizza places, they've got the toppings and sauce down pat, but these are not well-crafted crusts, just sauce and cheese delivery vessels. Speaking of the sauce, being a Pictou County-style place, the brown sauce was bold and peppery with a slightly stronger flavour than others I've had here. Crust criticisms aside, I'm a definite Andre's pizza fan! Being in the pizza game in Pictou County may not be easy, but there's a reason why Andre's Pizza has been at it for decades.

This is a cool place if you're into any kind of rock music of the past 40 years. As you walk in,…read moreyou will notice the old jukebox in the back and the nice bar. But when you sit, you will be staring at your table for quite a while. What you will be looking at is all kinds of ticket stubs for concerts from a who's who of rock bands and artists of the 60s through today. Think Black Sabbath, David Bowie, U2, etc. Then, on the walls, a myriad of signed albums, from the same type of bands. Clearly, the owner of this place is a rock fan, and also spent a pile of money on this memorabilia! All this stuff gives this place a really cool vibe. The food is elevated pub-type fare. My colleague's club sandwich was on a kaiser type roll and looked excellent. My beef dip sandwich had a very flavourful au jus accompanying it and the side caesar salad was excellent. My only complaint is that it does take a bit of time to get your food here, which happened both times I had lunch. Nevertheless, the food is good, the vibe is cool, so I'd happily return.

I love this place, great service, awesome people and fast serving always hot and never cold I…read moredefinitely will be recommending this place! Thank you!

Great pizza and Donairs. Best in the country. Nothing like it anywhere else in the province.read more

From the outside it just looks like a plain store amongst other small stores in a little strip…read moremall. Inside is also not that impressive. You can see the partial kitchen through the front counter and a man was busy cooking, with a large doner kebab slowly spinning. For me, this was all promising. There were enough people coming in for take outs, mostly doner I'm guessing it's easier for people to eat when they are running around or busy. There was a young man manning the counter and he also was a server. He was polite and helpful. We really enjoyed the food! I am from Philadelphia, and we go crazy over a Lebanese restaurant, Saad's (esp in West Philly). I am going to say something that will get me attacked. This Maple Cedar exceeded Saad's! The flavour was spot on, nothing was greasy, everything tasted fresh. If I lived here I would probably eat here often.

One of the benefits of living in your hometown for the first time in basically 20 years is that you…read moreget to try out the restaurants you don't have the chance to on quick visits when you're mostly hitting hold favourites (re. stuffing my face full of Pictou County-style pizza). When my wife and I found ourselves looking for a quick dinner on early on in the week when fewer restos are open, we made our way over to Maple Cedar. Having come from Ottawa, which in addition to being the national capital of the country is also the shawarma capital, it was a bit weird how few shawarma places there are in the area. The menu leans in a mostly traditional Middle Eastern direction, although they do have pizza, donairs and garlic fingers too. We went with the shawarma ($15) and falafel platters ($15) for dine-in. It was nice to see a flow of customers, despite it being a Tuesday, and our food was in front of us in good time. My shawarma platter had thick pieces of chicken on top of a bed of savoury rice. I would have liked to see a mix of white and dark meat and some crispy bits, but it still had a nice, rich flavour and was moist and tender. Of note, the garlic sauce had more of a aioli-like texture than toum normally does. It tasted fine, but this would anger Lebanese friends of mine. The falafel platter had a generous serving of eight of the crispy chickpea fritters. The platter's composition made it a sort of build-your-own wrap, with sides of tomato, shredded romaine, pickled turnip and tahini with pita. We found the tahini a bit bland, but the falafel were spot on and not at all greasy. A container of baklava ($10) that we took home was flaky, savoury and sweet, and had the most noticeable flavour of orange/rose water I've ever had in baklava. On a return visit, I went for something quick and easy to-go, the large shawarma wrap ($11). After a short wait after a few others, I had my shawarma and classily ate in my car. It had a lovely and crisp exterior from the griddle/sandwich press, plus more traditional ingredients than most shawarma places - chicken, toum, pickled turnips and the clincher - fries. No salad in these bad boys! If they had a better toum, it would be a front runner for the best shawarma wrap that I've had in the province. Maple Cedar may have a broad menu to appeal to a smaller customer base that's less familiar with Middle Eastern food than big markets, but they're still doing right by their culinary origins.

Admittedly, we have not been to Boston Pizza since pre-Covid times. We enjoyed an appetizer a…read morespinach dip with very nice wedges of flatbread... Nicely spiced. In addition, I had the chicken club, which was delicious with a side of onion rings. My mission in life is to find the best onion rings and these were very very good. My wife had the spicy pierogi pizza which she thoroughly enjoyed. The service was tentative and very pleasant. Not surprising when I say that we will be back many times. I gave five stars because I am comparing it to restaurants of this type family with a bar and a multitude of food choices

We had a reservation last night at Boston pizza for 6 people at 6:30. While booking the reservation…read moreI requested the bar side of the restaurant. At 6:25 the first member of our party arrived and was seated! At 6:29 the rest of us arrived. We could see our first member sitting so went to join her, which was not the bar side of the restaurant! But not a huge deal. I asked our first member if she picked this table, she said no this is where they seated her. Ok no problem. For the next 22 mins we saw no wait staff. Not even walking by! But we could clearly see two waitresses over on the bar side standing around talking to each other. We didn't even get offered any water, nothing! Then the table beside us got their food, we asked one of their servers if we had any wait staff for our table, she rudely replied with "yeah he's just busy!" Ok then! 27 mins now and still no water, no one to tell us they are sorry but will be with us soon! We got up and left! We went to Jungle Jim's where we had a wonderful waitress. The food was excellent. The service was superb, and they even told us when they seated us that it might be a little wait for our food... No wait at all!! We all left happy and glad that Boston Pizza Forced us to go to Jungle Jim's! Highly recommend Jungle Jim's! As for Boston Pizza, this was our first and last experience at Boston Pizza! They don't even deserve the one star!

The server was friendly , however the pizza was honestly terrible. The crust was burnt on the edges…read moreand tasted of old grease. The sauce tasted like it had been left unrefrigerated longer than should be safe and tasted very off from what you expect from a Greco location. The ham topping was also very sparse and barely covered the top of the pizza. While waiting for the order to be ready, I noticed the booths are not very accessible for people with mobility issues like myself and it was very uncomfortable to sit in there. There were only 2 available booths in the whole place so it's a small store as well.

Pay for extra cheese and barely get the regular amount. Cheap cheap cheap these guys must really…read morehate their customers. Barely any seasoning on the crust and half filled condiment cups.

Bad pizza! They didn't make good works pizza. Less cheese, distorted dry meat. Long wait to order…read morepizza in restaurant.