Da Chefs Padella - Halton Hills

1 star service and atmosphere.4 star food. Visited on a Saturday night at 6 pm. The bad - the atmosphere is horrendous. It is clean but there is a serious identity crisis going on. Is it trattoria, is it a dive bar, is it a pizza take out place? It is NOT a romantic date destination. The floors are mismatched with chipped tiles. Teeny tiny tables (tables for four is only appropriate for 2). Uncomfortable chairs, no candles, terrible wall decor, the bar has flags and stuffed animals decorating it..... etc etc. The service is unprofessional (with the exception of one server). We ordered white wine. After pouring two glasses our server simply left the bottle on the table. Not only was there no vessel to keep the wine chilled, she never came back to re-pour. By the end of of meal our white wine was warm. No water glasses or water on the table. Has to ask for it and again, never refilled. Our server didn't know the menu, didn't know wines or pairings, didn't know the specials and hadn't tasted them. There was only one dish on the menu she liked and she said she liked it because it was plain..... She was very clear she needed to go home because she had partied too hard the night before......she was friendly enough but ridiculously unprofessional. Wine list is sad. 6 or 7 options of each white and red but very few italian wines. Made no sense to me. Wines start at $28 and go up very quickly from there. An average bottle is $40, a liter is $32 and not a great selection to choose from. The good - the food! There was a serious lack of seasoning in every dish we ordered BUT the food was made from scratch and very flavourful. I am not easy to impress and the quality of the food was memorable. We had the grilled calamari ($12) a light dish and cooked very well. Mussels ($12) well cooked and a great broth. Fettuccine ($18) was perfectly el dente and the sauce was not too rich with a great balance of stock, wine and cream. Seafood Linguini ($20) was ok. Great sauce. The flaw with this dish is the use of surimi instead of crab. Could have been a great dish but missed.Portions sizes are ok but there won't be left overs.The bread and butter on the table was just a bad idea. They needed a better quality bread with evoo and balsamic dippers.The tiramisu and the cream brulee are made in house. The server told us the rest are not. The tiramisu ($6.50) was absolutely fabulous! The best I have ever had (even in italy). I am undecided about whether I will go back. Our bill was $125 for two of us, and those prices open up a lot of dining options. The food was very good but whether it was good enough to overcome the atmosphere and the bad service.......I don't know.

I had dinner at Da Chef's Padella - only my second visit to this awesome little place. For anyone familiar with the Georgetown/Norval area, it is where the Pancake Factory used to be. The decor isn't fancy, but it is comfortable. What is amazing is the food. They are an Italian restaurant but have a few different items on their menu as well. The special tonight was Rabbit Pernod with basmati rice. One of the best meals I have eaten in a while. Their Insalata Caprese had huge pieces of bocconcini cheese and just the right amount of balsamic. Prices are reasonable, wait staff is friendly but not hovering. Can't wait for my next meal there.

There is no atmosphere. No patrons on a Friday night at 7:00pm.Food is average. My husband had lobster fettuccine special which was average and I had gnocchi with boccini cheese and tomato sauce which really didn't have any flavour was very bland. I would rate this as average. what was extremely surprising was the state of the washrooms. Women's closed. Men's was disgusting, dirty and 2 urinals bags over them and it was Dirty and messy not clean. Walked out, waited to go home. This is unacceptable.

We went on Friday August 26th to this restaurant - food was amazing.Spoke to Johhny the chef - he was so accommodating.I would recommend this restaurant. My husband had the pasta with seafood, he said it was delicious, my girlfriend had the tiger Shrimp with a champagne cream sauce and her husband had the spaghetti bolognaise - everything was hot, tasted delicious.

Me and my kid went for breakfast at the norval pancake factory but soon realized it closed down and he was disappointed and asked if we could come here for dinner instead so I agreed, so we got here and waited to be seated, but they do not seat you, you can pick your own table we sat down and it is important to mention it was us along with one other table. We ordered our drinks and an appitizer of garlic bread which took about 8 or 9 minutes to arrive and it was delisious. I didn't expect much from garlic bread but they made it look nice and also put a lot of garlic and cheese on it. Then we ordered our entree. I ordered a pizza with ham bacon and mushrooms. Most pizza places use canned mushrooms but theise were fresh. My son ordered a pepperoni pizza and he said the pepperoni was above average. But our only negative of the place was the pizza too about 40 minutes to arrive. I would 100% reccomed it to you but call ahead and order takeout or still call ahead and come about 15 minutes later so you only have a small wait.