Roy’s Pizza + Bottleshop

Three businesses share one downtown Guelph address, and Roy's Pizza + Bottleshop is all of them at once. It is a pizzeria built on named pies, a bottleshop stocked with craft beer and cider, and — through a sandwich counter run for daytime pickup inside the Jimmy Jazz bar on Macdonell Street — a lunch operation. Most diners come for the first of those: New Brooklyn-style pizza, ordered loose, by the pie or by the combo, with no dining-room ceremony attached. The kitchen opened in 2021 and has been adding ways to use that one address ever since, until the place now answers for a weekday lunch, a casual group dinner, and a late drink with equal ease.

The pizza roster is where the kitchen shows its hand. The Double Roni is the cleanest read on Roy's — pizza-led and direct — while the Fun Guy, Margherita Queen, Red Green, and White Lightning give a table license to order across styles without anyone settling for the same pie. The Hot Rod, Smoke House, Hawaiian Heat, Quattro Cheeso, and Butcher's Block round out a list deep enough that a group rarely has to compromise, and there is a gluten-free crust for the diner who needs one. Wings sit alongside the pizzas for anyone building a fuller order.