Tasty Food’s history reads like a survival story. It starts in 1958 as a Tastee Freez on Décarie, set up to catch bus traffic at the end of the line. Ice cream paid the bills until winter hit. Pizza was added out of necessity, and quickly overtook everything else at a time when the city had barely seen it.

What followed was decades of adaptation. Ownership splits, a forced name change, rent hikes, the disruption of the Décarie Expressway cutting business in half, and a fire that levelled the building in 1976. Delivery, introduced early on, kept things afloat and helped define the operation. The restaurant rebuilt, expanded, closed, and reopened again after more setbacks—including two separate firebombings in the late ’90s.

Today, it continues under the next generation, still anchored in the same model of pizza and pasta from a menu that reflects how it all began. It's not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to a spot to eat, but its old school charm in undeniable.