La Roma

430 Preston St, Ottawa - K1S 4N4
180 reviews
Italian
(613) 234-8244

The food was outstanding. Service was wonderful! Prices are reasonable. Highly recommended!!

I found the pasta could have been cooked a little more. Was not quite al dente.

Great service from the wait staff and chef himself.

My new favorite restaurant!!! Staff was fantastic,

The starters were all very bland and we didn’t want to finish them. The pasta main courses were good apart from the chicken which was very disappointing. The beers were flat and warm when initially brought to the table. Other than that the service was good but expensive for we received.

Very warm atmosphere, with excellent and interesting food.

Server was great, my dish was very good, seafood. The three others said “good” but not amazing, just good. Veal gravy had an unwelcome sweetness to it. But very nice service and overall good dinner

We had a great experience. The food was delicious and the service was great. The zucchini fritters were amazing, with a very nice and creamy sauce. The fazzoletti were to die for. Homemade pasta, stuffed with ricotta and spinach, and with parmigiano and mozzarella cheese with a tomato sauce. The cannolis were simply a taste of heaven, and the tiramisu was good too. Overall, the food was very very good. However, the ambiance and atmosphere were not to our liking. It was extremely loud inside, to the point you had to shout to hear the person across the table. It was also very very cold inside, colder than outside. In addition to that, our original outside table was not covered and it started raining, so we had to move in. The bathrooms were not very nice either. It was very cold and they smelled like urine.

We passed by this place during the Italian festival, and they were kind enough to fit us in as walk ins. They had a modified menu for the Italian festival. We had the ceaser salad, zucchini fries and calamari for starters and they were all very good. When it came to mains our server got things mixed up, so there was a bit of a delay but even the dishes weren’t as good. The pesto cream pasta was pretty oily and to be honest couldn’t taste the cream it was mainly pesto! Our server after the mix up not sure why she was upset never offered us parmesan chess we had to ask for it and we felt wasn’t as nice! We had to ask another waiter to pass us some salt and pepper! Pizza was ok.

Maybe my husband and I went when they were working short or having an off day in the kitchen. We waited 40 minutes for our appetizer, which was tasty enough. Another 45 minutes later and our main dishes arrive - cold. My pasta was raw and stuck together like glue (at least there’s no question that it’s fresh pasta). Mentioned it to the waitress, she offered no solution and no compensation on the bill. Was very disappointed. I have never waited that long for very average food, especially at that price. I hope it was just a bad day but we won’t be going back unfortunately.