If I’ve learned anything in my quest for decent pizza in Kelowna, it’s that pizza places that advertise weekly or more often aren’t good choices.
Pizzaway is no exception.
I first tried Pizzaway in August/September of 2008, after receiving a flier indicating that they were open 24 hours a day, but unfortunately they were closed at the time. This should have been a warning, but unfortunately, I tried again a few hours later. Although the pizza did arrive this time, whether I was more successful or not is a matter of some debate.
I ordered a Hawaiian pizza, thinking that you really can’t go wrong with pineapple, ham and cheese. There wasn’t really anything “wrong” with the pizza, but there wasn’t anything much right with it either. It was round, which is a good start, but the pizza was bland, the ham on the pizza was rock hard, bordering on crunchy, so I guess the minimal amount was a blessing.
Lacking in meat, it compensated by being overly cheesy. Unfortunately the cheese was fairly cheap, not particularly flavourful, and just lumped in my stomach. Worse, the crust was dry and chewy and took up about an inch of the outsize of the pizza.
Combined with a bottle of warm pop, the whole experience was a bit of a disappointment for a first try at pizza in a new city.
So why am I posting about this experience a year later? Mostly because I happened to be chatting with a couple neighbours in the elevator about the volume of junk mail from a couple pizza places in particular and discovered that my experience with Pizzaway was pretty much typical, so I thought I’d help you, my fleeting internet visitor, remember what to do when you want pizza: “Everything you need to know is in the name: Pizzaway, Stay far away”
