Sometimes we forget to talk wbout the simpler pleasures of eating. Like a really good pizza with fresh toppings. Thursday night I went to TOMATO with a friend to chat and share pizzas. It was a great discover for both of us. I had seen this little IKEA designed pizzeria for the past few months and was hoping it wouldn't be all show and no go. The staff is helpful and fast on their toes, the pizzas have a great crispy crust. We shared a Parma ham, arugula pizza and a chévre, sun-dried tomatoe, red onion. I was most impressed by the prosciutto one as they did not make the error of sticking the ham under the oven's heat rendering it to leather-like quality (which I've exprienced in pizzas and other dishes elsewhere) The hot pizza was topped with a generous amount of crispy arugula and 3 or 4 slices of paper thin, melt in your mouth prosciutto, a filet of olive oil... mmmm. We sat at one of two communal tables and they brought us olives and celery sticks while we waited for our pizzas, nice touch. They also deliver. So no more donini! They have one pasta dish on the menu, strangely. Meat tortellini and pesto. And one desert: Chocolate-orange cake. In the end, what more does one need? My friend told me she had tried a similar place on Bernard at about the same distance from St-Laurent and that, even though the Bernard place was good, this one topped it. Or maybe it was just that she was in my presence TOMATO 15 rue St-Viateur 514 678-4430