Pizza Bono on the Danforth makes halal hand-stretched pizza with the technique that the format demands: dough proofed overnight to develop proper flavour and extensibility, then hand-stretched to order and fired at high heat. The crust comes out fire-blistered, the Char marks and bubbles that signal a properly hot oven and a dough that has enough structure to hold up to it. On a stretch of Danforth where Greek food still dominates and pizza is everywhere but serious pizza is rare, Pizza Bono positions itself as the halal option that doesn't sacrifice any of the technique for the sake of accessibility. The 416 phone number and the 'a slice of happiness' tagline signal an operation built for the neighbourhood rather than for the food press, the kind of pizzeria that earns a loyal Saturday-night following through consistency.

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