Fun, casual atmosphere, comfortable, good drink specials... I really enjoyed the Meteor pizza and the buffalo sriracha wings and the wednesday wing special, the waitress was prompt and friendly.

Boston Pizza Hut. As a culinary conoisseur (OK, most people would say "food snob"), I feel it's de rigeur to sneer at middle-of-the-road chains like Boston Pizza. B.P. is how you say "TGI Fridays" in Canadian. But a co-worker who's also an American expat was having his 57th birthday the other night, and I wanted to spring for some pizza that we could splorsh Heinz 57 sauce on. Which means hamburger pizza. Only, none of the fancy-schmancy pizza joints that deliver to my hospital (like the one whose menu lists a lobster-and-caviar pizza that costs $650) offered something that pedestrian. So I called up this Boston Pizza franchise.

It wasn't bad -- about the quality of Pizza Hut. One pizza I got with a standard white-flour crust had a bit of crunch to the bottom edge, and wasn't too soggy when it got to us. The other pizza with a multi-grain crust had a slightly off taste, reminiscent of wheat flour that hasn't been cooked enough, but it wasn't awful, just different.

The bacon double cheeseburger topping was gloriously gloppy, with pea-sized balls of burger, a layer of cheddar cheese, bacon, strips of onion under the mozzarella... The kind of thing you'd love in a college dorm room. Tasted nice with the Heinz 57, too. B.P.'s "Great White North" (smoked ham and cheddar) won't be replacing the Hawaiian in anyone's pizza pantheon, but my fellow nurses ate that faster than they did the burger one.

I also have to give credit to the delivery guy. I work on a ward that's behind locked doors (so the mental patients can't escape) and to get to it, he had to navigate through the always-turbulent emergency room. But the guy found us with no hassles. The only shock treatment was the price -- more than $44 (including tax) for two 13-inch pizzas?!? I will have deeper appreciation for the bargain I'm getting next time my wife makes pizza at home.