Mamma Teresa
| Monday | 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
| Tuesday | 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
| Thursday | 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
| Friday | 4:30 pm - 10:30 pm |
| Saturday | 4:30 pm - 10:30 pm |
| Sunday | 4:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
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Rating on Google*10 Best Centretown/Downtown, Ottawa Restaurants
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Super bonne bouffe surtout l'antipasto Casalinga suivi du ravioli ou le spaghetti bolognaiseView more
Hate italian, but my friend really liked it so I would definitely recommend.View more
Unfortunately they only have a soave white house wine. I prefer a pinot grigio.View more
I loved this place as if I have been to Italy again. Big portions, high quality italian cuisine for the price. Available parking at the back. Recommend you pick your drinks from wine menu, cocktails was average.View more
Everything was phenomenal! The food was some of the best Italian food in Ottawa, our food & drinks came minutes after we ordered! Our server Max was exceptional, very quick to check up on us at all stages of our meal. We will be back very soon!View more
Always a treat dining here, food is great as is the service & atmosphere. Book ahead & it is on the pricey sideView more
We had the most wonderful time on an extremely busy night. We were told the place was full of reservations, but luckily, we're seated. What a wonderful experience with cocktails to start & wine with our meals. The food was very delicious (only thing was it wasnt that hot at all) but the restaurant was extremely busy. The server was so very friendly & attentive even with a full restaurant.View more
Absolutely top notch service. Took care of my kids, took care of my family. Easy enough to say we have a new staple when visiting Ottawa. 10-15 minute walk from our place in the glebe. Can't wait to bring my parents. Great pricing. So full.View more
Terrible food. Great service in a historical house.View more
Food & service was okay. I'm not sure if the pasta is made in-house. Pastas were okay. Honestly, for 00 flour made with eggs (hopefully with eggs), & a sauce, the price of dishes seemed quite high. I found the dishes to be too salty. Lots of customers working in the government dine here on weekdays, so that's the atmosphere you'll get. Our server was okay: neither friendly nor cold, he just did his job. Desserts were not that special.View more
The food was terrible. I had the bruschetta, minestrone soup, veal parmigiana with spaghetti & mamma's cake & all of these were bad (even the spaghetti which I didn't know spaghetti could be bad). The service, however, was superb! I find that getting good service in Ottawa is very difficult but it was excellent at mamma teresa.View more
Lovely restaurant with very high quality Italian food!!View more
Very lovely, quiet & elegant restaurant. Perfect place for my 12 year anniversary with my wife, highly recommend the food! I ordered the Linguine Ginliano, they're very lucky I didn't pick up the plate to lick it! Excellent service, the price is very well deserved for the quality given!View more
Mamma Teresa is a beautiful Italian restaurant with a great atmosphere! It's certainly a nice place to enjoy a memorable evening! It wasn't our first time here & once again, we had a delicious meal. We were so grateful to be served by a waiter who has many years of experience at this location. Thank you, Saverino, for the excellent service!!View more
I had a high expectations. The place is great. The food.... I can make it better at home. Besides I was very disappointed that they have no none alcoholic ofer. At all.. it's very expensive. For what they get to offer. I brought my partner for his birthday. I would never come backView more
Excellent Italian food & superb service. Always a superior go to in OttawaView more
Recommended by a dear friend whose tastes I trust(ed) implicitly, it would seem that this Ottawa institution seems to have seen a marked dive in most every quantifiable way since his days stomping around the 613. The restaurant presents nicely both outside & in (for the most part), quite clearly tugging at our collective nostalgic heartstrings, throwing it back to simpler times (& that goes for the food as well). We were tended to by two servers whom could not've been more different in their warmth/personality, one being a younger gentleman with slicked back hair & a ponytail, who was not the most pleasant fellow I've encountered (shocking at such an establishment, tbh), the other being a young Ukrainian girl who was just a ray of sunshine; super warm, friendly, & attentive. I cannot really knock the service though, even with his unpleasant demeanour, they both performed sufficiently well. I really did enjoy the atmosphere inside, which is a real throwback, though one question which kept relentlessly running through my mind was "did all these famous politicians, celebrities, etc. really use THIS bathroom?"- it is in dire need of updating, friends. Onto the food... it is plainly evident that this place is mostly catering to a faithful old Anglo clientele whose palates simply don't expect all that much culinary excitement, whether it be from depth of flavour (or, rather, lack-thereof, as everything was criminally under-seasoned) , the cook (everything being an overcooked, mushy, mess), & so on. The Caesar salad was just a sad, bland, mess. The gnocchi are literally just tasteless calorie pillows in an equally tasteless tomato sauce- the saddest dish of the evening. Chicken cutlet with bolognese... cutlet, a soggy, flavourless, disaster, & on the bolognese: I appreciate kitchens are all about expediting things, but it simply lacks the depth of flavour of a bolo that's been cooked down for 5+ hours & left to sit overnight, & then reheated (my tip to the restaurant... a widely known "secret", that bolo is always (much) better the next day). Happy to offer a free further breakdown on bolognese-creation. The best dish, relatively speaking, was the lasagna (which, ironically, our unpleasant waiter advised against (while promoting the totally lacklustre gnocchi)), but yeah, that's just relatively speaking- no need to elaborate; totally forgettable. All in, about $190 for this sad, over-cooked, soggy, flavourless, pile of what is a poor excuse for Italian/Italian-American fare- I feel cheated & upset; total waste of money. Again, very obvious who their target demographic is, & with that, it makes sense this place is still around (& seemingly thriving)- riding on the coattails of yesterday's successes... a yesterday when there simply must not've been a better game in town for Italian.View more
This was the most fun I’ve had at any restaurant. The atmosphere was incredibly charming & cozy. Service from John was first class, he was an absolute delight. The manager came by a few times to makes sure we were taken care of. Everything we ordered was super amazing, we had the mussels, bruschetta & Prosciutto di Parma, & a bottle of Dom Pérignon to start, we ordered lasagna, filet mignon & shrimp, carbonara & risotto for dinner, & the mama Teresa cake, lemon sorbet, tiramisu & tarfuto for dessert, all spectacular! I highly recommend this place to eat any time. There is something here for everyone even kids. I can not wait to return for another wonderful evening. Thank you so much!!View more