Welcome to Bay’s Best Bites
Here, I will try to guide you to the best burgers, poutines and pizzas in the North Bay area. While there are plenty of other foods that I could explore (and I’m not discounting the possibility of doing so), these 3 are fairly common menu items that can be prepared in a variety of ways, which allows for more comparison.
For the sake of consistency, I’ve had to set myself a few ground rules:
- I will only be trying places that are within one (1) hour’s drive from North Bay, according to Google Maps
- When possible, I will be ordering the closest thing possible to my standard order (e.g., for pizza, I try to order pepperoni, sausage and onions)
- I will be eating at a location when I can. If I am getting takeout, I will be tasting the food before travelling to my destination, unless I expect to be traveling less that 10 minutes.
- I will be rating as many independent restaurants as possible, but I will include a few family restaurant chains for perspective. I will not be including any common fast food chains.
Disclosures/Biases:
-I will not be posting reviews chronologically. I have already amassed a backlog of reviews, focusing on visiting as many seasonal restaurants as possible and I don’t know exactly when I visited certain locations. I will instead try to intertwine reviews from different types of establishments as I build up the site.
-I have preferences that can affect my ratings, so I will try to describe items thoroughly enough so that someone can decide if they wish to try it regardless of my rating. In terms of some of my fundamental preferences/beliefs, here are a few: almost all burgers can benefit from a toasted bun, iceberg lettuce is easily the best burger lettuce, hand-cut fries are almost always better than frozen fries, poutines are not invalidated by using shredded cheese over curds, pizza is best when kept relatively thin.