The word “libretto,” meaning “booklet” in Italian, is used colloquially to describe the act of folding pizza, which allows you to eat even the gooiest, cheesiest slice with your hands. Pizzeria Libretto, the immensely popular Toronto pizza restaurant group, has been producing that same style of delightfully soft pizza since 2008.
“We don’t aim to be number one, but we do aim to be everyone’s favourite,” says Gary Quinto, managing partner for the company. Libretto credits the stringent quality control of their food with their high level of approval among Torontonians. When you sit down at King West's Pizzeria Libretto location, you're eating handmade pizza dough and gelato made from scratch right in their kitchen.
With tons of fandom behind them, these thin-crust champions from Ossington Avenue have opened numerous new pizzerias across Toronto, including a location on King Street West. While the original location is compact and tavern-like (and never without a line-up), the King West location of Pizzeria Libretto is modern and sprawling, with large group tables and booth seating. And while there’s no change in the drool-worthiness of the Quattro Staggione or the Margherita, the new location offers one thing the original does not: reservations.