Afro's Pizza (Toronto, Canada) | Influencer Restaurant Review by Keith Lee

Full Transcript: Keith Lee’s Afro’s Pizza Restaurant Review Video

The food in this bag is from a pizza place here in downtown Toronto. It’s a family-owned spot that gives back to the community, and their goal is to get a bigger spot. This is a very, very, very tiny shop, but a lot of people say it has some of the best pizza in the city—even some of the most well-respected food reviewers here in the city.

I got it. Let’s try it and rate it 1 to 10.

We spent seventy-nine dollars and four cents. Customer service? My family said it was really good, but we are in Canada—some of the nicest people I’ve met so far.

I’m going to show you everything I got, and we’re going to try it and rate it 1 to 10.

• Mac and Cheese: This has a lot of ingredients. I might be reading off a phone. A David Junior personal pizza with cup and charred pepperonis, house kielbasa sausage, pickled jalapenos, hot honey, Afro sugo, and crispy basil.

  This is the same thing but… you can stay.

• The Hendrix Experience: Chicken and waffles, fried chicken, toasted pecans, compressed watermelon with tequila, maple habanero, and fresh cilantro.

  Compressed watermelon with tequila? What does that even mean? How do you compress watermelon and put tequila in it? Did they card you? No.

• Shanai Samosa: Shenaz’s beef samosa, tamarind and cilantro chili sauce, crispy samosa chips, fresh cilantro, and chili flakes. That’s a whole mouthful.

Now, onto the mac and cheese.

Golly, I’m very picky with mac and cheese, but I feel like this has a lot of hope. In my opinion, a little more sauce and this would be super high. It’s got the most flavor I’ve had in a long time. I wish the cheese sauce in the middle was everywhere because the parts that don’t have the cheese sauce are just noodles, and it’s kind of dry. But with the cheese sauce, it’s like an 8.5 out of 10, in my opinion. I don’t give mac and cheese that high very often. Maybe once when I was in Dallas, but other than that, this is one of them.

This is the pepperoni pizza. It’s a really good pizza, in my opinion. It’s sweet, salty, has hot honey on it, and has the jalapeno. The meat is fresh, and the sauce is really good. This is my first time giving a pizza a 9—9 out of 10.

This is the beef version. I like the other one better because I’m a pepperoni lover. But if you can’t have pepperoni for any reason, this is a great option—a great option, in my opinion. 8.7 out of 10.

Now, this is the chicken and waffles. I’m not gonna lie and say I’m not scared because I am. You want to go back? I don’t know. Is it good? It might be.

There’s so much going on, I can’t even feel it. It’s very sweet and spicy—the spiciest thing I’ve had so far. I can really taste that watermelon-infused tequila. In my opinion, I can see this being divisive. Some people will love it, and some people will hate it. I’m on either side of the fence, like right above the middle for me. So, 7.6 out of 10, maybe 7.7—somewhere like that.

This is the samosa. Also in that same category of being divisive. It’s got a lot of flavor. It’s tangy. If this was fresh out of the oven, it would be crispy. The chips on top, I feel like those would be real crispy, and it would add a lot of texture to it. As it is, in my opinion, this is a 7.5 out of 10, but I can see when this is fresh, it would probably be like an 8.

I don’t see what’s holding this place back from reaching that goal. It’s not up to me, but if it were up to me, I’d be talking about a line around the corner until they got a bigger space. Out the door, if you ask me—that pizza is crazy, it’s different. I’ve never had anything like that before.

And as always, after this, I pray and hope they reach their target audience.

Oh, you’ve had the food? Absolutely. We had the chicken and waffles, the beef mac and cheese, the mac and cheese—crazy good stuff. Absolutely, yeah.

See, we’re trying to bring fine-dining quality food down to the common level so everyone can have it, right? Not just rich people eating the good, fancy food. Everyone should eat that too, right?

We want to leave you $3,000.

What? $3,000? God bless you. Have an amazing day. Y’all be safe.

Yeah, that’s one of those places I want to see reach that goal. I know they will.