West-enders rejoice: Queen Margherita Pizza to open a new Baby Point location soon
John Chetti, co-owner of Leslieville’s Queen Margherita Pizza, has found a west end spot without easy access to Neapolitan pies—and it’s an absence he plans to address when he opens a second QMP restaurant there in October. The new location will be at 785 Annette Street, just east of Jane, and will largely echo its sister location: a high-ceilinged vintage space—a former bank in this case—seating 100-ish people, serving up traditional Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven. Chetti tells us he sees parallels between Baby Point and Leslieville, both up-and-coming neighbourhoods in need of a good restaurant or two. He’s also apparently working on bringing in a chef he describes as “a huge name in the industry”—which will surely set off the next round of thin-crust wars in Toronto. After all, Pizzeria Libretto made a mirror-image west-to-east move last fall.
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John Chetti, co-owner of Leslieville’s Queen Margherita Pizza, has found a west end spot without easy access to Neapolitan pies—and it’s an absence he plans to address when he opens a second QMP restaurant there in October. The new location will be at 785 Annette Street, just east of Jane, and will largely echo its sister location: a high-ceilinged vintage space—a former bank in this case—seating 100-ish people, serving up traditional Neapolitan pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven. Chetti tells us he sees parallels between Baby Point and Leslieville, both up-and-coming neighbourhoods in need of a good restaurant or two. He’s also apparently working on bringing in a chef he describes as “a huge name in the industry”—which will surely set off the next round of thin-crust wars in Toronto. After all, Pizzeria Libretto made a mirror-image west-to-east move last fall.){kind=link}
As a local who lives right near this location, we are excited about the opening of this new restaurant. That corner of Baby Point and Jane and Annette needs some new businesses and although we’ve had a few recently open up, we are excited that this one being larger will bring other new exciting businesses. Can’t wait!
i am a server/bartendar with 13yrs experience, i was wondering how to contact the owner for employment at either location..i live right next door to the one on jane and annette..it would be very local for me and i heard amazing things about them..i know they would do very well…
Every day when I leave my place, which is right across the street from this location, I hope that i’ll be greeted with the paper over the windows being ripped down. Sadly, the paper still covers every window. On a bright note, the signs have been up for a week, so one can only assume that the resto will open very soon. I’m looking forward to the day that it does open.