Looks like this restaurant has fallen by the...
Looks like this restaurant has fallen by the wayside since they received the Best Italian Resaurant in Ottawa award in 2002. The most recent reviews are not good. We were celebrating an anniversary with a wekkend in Ottawa and were recommended this restaurant. I had reserved a table and when we arrived were shown to the worst table in the place, by the bar behind the waiter station. The place was busy -- very busy and noisy also, especially at the bar as this was the main 'road' for waiters to deliver food and drinks to the other diners. My wife is vegetarian and this restaurant was recommended by someone who is also vegerarian but there was almost no veggie selections on the menu, 2 to be exact, a gnocchi and a linguine primavera. We asked if some dish could be cooked that was vegerarian but not an oil based sauceand a penne primavera was delivered in a cream sauce which was tasteless and had almost no vegetables. My veal parmiggiano was large but again relatively tasteless. The waiter was rushed and gave us very little attention except to deliver 2 Sambucca's at the end of the evening, I suspect to enhance his tip. I did complain about the table but was not moved - the Maitre'd was busy giving other tables to his 'regulars' maybe? but no consideration for out-of-towners.