La Strada Restaurant - Ottawa

I had the lobster and veal dish in rose sauce! Well for 47$ I would have liked to see some lobster! The veal was well prepared and quite tender but the lack of lobster left me cold! Definitely won’t have that again!!

Wonderful Italian restaurant! Excellent service! Excellent food! Friendly staff. An absolutely delightful evening!Vegetarian options: Had the zucchini sticks. They were amazing! Delicious vegetarian minetrone and the eggplant parm. Really excellent food!

The food was delicious! Our server was well versed, friendly, and around when we needed her.The decor was elegant. On the downside, the restaurant got quite noisy as it filled up there were no sound baffles.

We were very excited to try La Strada for the first time. A family member had previously dined here and only had amazing things to say.We had reservations booked and arrived on time. Not sure if it was the owner or manager, but when we arrived we were greeted very coldly. He didn 't smile, didn 't say welcome, and gave the impression that he was surprised/bothered by our presence. We were not given a very nice table, while there were nicer ones open. Very bad first impression.The waiter was very nice, but had to come back after he took our order to confirm what the three of us had ordered, and when he came to the table with the dishes, he was mixing up who ordered what. Not that big of a deal.I can say the food was excellent. We ordered an entrée each and two appetizers to share. All three of us really enjoyed our meals.Not a fan of the ambiance. It was very loud and came off very pretentious. It was hard to hear each other and have a conversation as the volume of noise was way too loud.At the end of our meal, we paid cash and tipped around 23% as we rounded out the bill. I watched the waiter return to the bar and count the bills and when he was finished, looked up at our table with a sour look on his face, and proceeded to toss the billfold aside on the bar in an annoyed manner. Considering we paid $300.00 for dinner, his reaction made us very uncomfortable. When we got up to leave, we passed by our waiter and the owner/manager and neither of them acknowledged us, said thank you for coming or hope to see you again or anything. They were not busy with other staff/patrons.All in all, although we really enjoyed our food, I even told the waiter that this was the best meal I 've had eating out in a very long time, the unwelcoming attitude and energy of the restaurant made us all agree that we would never return to La Strada. Unfortunate.

By far Ottawa's best Italian restaurant. We usually have the wings, zucchini, lamb and Diablo pasta. Can't say enough about how good that lamb is! Service is top notch, owner is there almost every time we go and the standards are just HIGH. Our go to.