Burnaby Archives - Foodology

I’ve been living in Burnaby since I was born and the food scene is always very diverse and I just love family owned businesses. Pizza Art opened up in Burnaby 3 months ago replacing Grano Pizza.

The family that owns it now is Turkish and they have added a few unique items on the menu – Lahmajoun and Turkish Kofte. Of course they have regular pizza options and some more fun flavours too like Mac & Cheese, Roast Beef, and alfredo sauce pizza too.

They source their meats from Alberta and they use quality ingredients. Their dough has a nice chew and it isn’t greasy at all.

Interior

It is a small shop with a few seats inside. You can get pizza by the slice for $2.15, which is popular. You can also get delivery through their website or order through delivery apps like Skip the Dishes or Door Dash.

Lahmajoun

Lahmajoun is essentially a meat pizza, sometimes even known as a Turkish Pizza. Pizza Art’s version has ground meat, veggies, pizza, and spces spread thinly on a thin piece of dough. It is meant to be wrapped with the toppings which can include lettuce, parsley, pickled onions, tomato, and lemon.

All you do is wrap it up and enjoy. It’s pretty unique and you definitely don’t see this at many places around town. Our friend loved it so much, he’s probably been back for this 3 times already.

Turkish Kofte

This is a type of kebab made of ground beef and they serve it with onions and tomatoes. It is wrapped around their pizza dough and it becomes like a sandwich. The Kofte was very soft and juicy.

Salmon Mist

This was one of our favourites! It has a lot of fresh and fragrant dill, paired with salty capers, tomato sauce, and red onions. They use BC wild salmon for this pizza.

Tuna Mild

The other side of that Salmon Mist pizza is the Tuna Mild. This has tomato sauce, tuna with mayonnaise, red onion, corn, and lemon. This was one of our favourites too and the combination of mayo with tuna wasn’t fishy at all.

Garden Rocket Funghi

This has alfredo sauce, mozzarella, Fior Di Latte, grana padano, mushrooms, red onion, and topped with fresh arugula. One of our top favourites too. How can you go wrong with mushroom and cheese. The arugula added a nice peppery finish.

Margherita

A classic pizza to order and it has tomato sauce, mozzarella, Fior Di Latte, and then topped with fresh basil, tomato, and olive oil. They pick the basil leaves off their basil plants, so it is very fresh.

Shrimp Bianco

This seafood pizza has alfredo sauce, mozzarella, shrimp, spinach, chopped garlic, and red onion. It’s a simple pizza and the ingredients work in harmony so nothing overpowers each other. It might even need a kick of spice to really enhance the flavours.

Shrimp Club

They don’t just have one shrimp pizza, they have two. This has Thousand Island sauce, mozzarella, wild pink shrimp, parmesan, and parsley flakes. We found this very odd to have Thousand Island sauce as the base, but apparently they did some market research and found it popular among Asian countries.

Butter Chicken

This butter chicken pizza has a butter chicken sauce as the base, mozzarella, cheddar, spicy chicken, red pepper, and red onions. It has a little kick of heat to this, which is nice.

BBQ Chicken

The BBQ Chicken pizza has BBQ sauce, mozzarella, grilled chicken, red peppers, red onions, and a BBQ drizzle on top. This is good if you like BBQ sauce. The grilled chicken was decent.

Meat Lovers

It’s not everyday you see roast beef on a pizza. It has tomato sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, roast beef, ground beef, and cheddar. It is delicious.

Nutella Pizza

The Nutella Pizza only comes in medium size with Nutella, banana, strawberries, chocolate chip, chocolate drizzle, blueberries, and icing sugar.

Definitely a dessert pizza and great for kids or those with a sweet tooth. It’s a good combination with their chewy dough. The whole pizza sounds super sweet, but it wasn’t because of their dough, so the ratio of it balances out.

Final Thoughts

There are definitely a lot of pizza shops in Burnaby, but if you love supporting local family businesses and finding something unique with creative pizzas, definitely check out Pizza Art.

Our favourite items was the Lahmajoun, Salmon Mist Pizza, Tuna Mild Pizza, and Garden Rocket Funghi.

Address:
7239 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC

Website:
https://www.pizzaart.ca

Green Leaf Cafe opened their second location in Burnaby and it’s good they finally opened right by Lougheed Mall so there are more food options in the area. They are a Japanese and Korean fusion restaurant that takes the best of both cuisines. I came here with the family for lunch to check it out.

Interior

The space is large and it can get quite busy on weekends, so a reservation is best to ensure your whole party gets seated with no waits.

Crispy Chicken Karaage

The chicken is deep-fried and seasoned with a soy garlic sauce and served with a garlic mayo. It comes in 5, 10 or 15 pieces in an order. It was really delicious, well seasoned and also very moist inside.

Grilled Miso Mackerel

It has the grilled mackerel with a housemade miso sauce on top of grilled onions and served with rice on the side. It was average and all the sauces clashed with the natural saltiness of the mackerel.

Aburi Tuna Salad

In this big salad is flame seared tuna, greens, garlic chips, and yuzu ponzu dressing. Good and refreshing.

Salmon Oshi

Salmon Oshi is quite popular here. There are double layers of Atlantic salmon, oshi sauce and topped with a Jalapeno. The sauce is flame seared so it give it a nice texture and flavour. What I found with their version is that the rice is quite oily, so it falls apart easily.

Scallop Oshi

The Scallop Oshi has scallop, fish eggs, oishi sauce and topped with cracked pepper. I felt the same feeling about these too. It was just too oily and also fell apart.

Tornado Omelette

The tornado rice is beautiful. It has a sweet and savoury demiglace sauce or you can choose the Jalapeno creamy sauce. It looked beautiful, but it was average as it was just rice and eggs.