Hawaiian Pizza appears as a signature dish in 1 Canada cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Hawaiian pizza · Toronto
Hawaiian pizza is the contentious pineapple-and-ham pizza invented in Chatham, Ontario in 1962. Toronto chains like Pizzaiolo and the city's pizzerias claim it as a Canadian original.
Hawaiian pizza was invented in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, two hours west of Toronto. Panopoulos, a Greek immigrant who emigrated to Canada in 1954, added canned Dole pineapple to a ham-and-cheese pizza on a whim and named it Hawaiian after the brand on the can. The combination remains divisive; Toronto's reference Italian-Canadian pizzerias still carry it as a hat tip to the Canadian original.
Where to eat in Toronto:
- Pizzeria Libretto
- Pizzeria Libretto University
- Bitondo Pizzeria