Pizarro's — Restaurant in Ottawa

Not really impressed, this place condones abuse to women. Read all for details Took a while for the server to join us. And took everyones drink order except mine. Food took fairly long to arrive. Fettuccine Alfredo was missing alot of seasoning. (The fried zucchini was delicious though)

Now this is what im really not happy about. While we we're eating there was an older gentleman and his wife sitting next to us. You can here them very clearly that he's treating her terribly and being very abusive. No one was acknowledging her and the situation. So we did. It got very heated fast and the abusive husband tried to fight my sister and my aunt after they stood up for the woman. As they were leaving and calming down he pushed her! HE PUSHED HER! In front of everyone. We do not tolerate violence nor abuse on woman so we took actions to let him know it was not alright. As the older man was going to fight with my aunt i stepped in telling him he would not lay a finger on her. As we were stepping outside to escalate the situation the servers stopped me and told me "he's just an old man" "he's just used of the old ways". I couldnt believe it. They knew that this man was being abusive and they were letting it happen.

Im not returning there, and im not letting anyone I care about going to this place because that. I give chances to restaurants but I draw the line at abuse to women, and not helping someone in a...

I had been to Pizarro's about 15 years ago, and it was great! This time was a major disappointment. When we arrived for a 7PM reservation, the place was packed! The restaurant is crowded to fit the most possible tables in. The noise levels were deafening. There was no possible way of carrying on a pleasant dinner conversation. Our food took over an hour and ten minutes to come. Luckily the elderly crowd thinned out by then, and the noise level became acceptable. Another major disappointment was that although homemade pizza was on the menu, they hadn't fired up the pizza oven that day. The staff were too busy to notice that we waited over an hour. When the food came, it was a major disappointment. I ordered the combo plate with chicken parmigiana, lasagna, cannelloni and manicotti. When the plate first came it looked okay, but the sauce covered up the miniscule portions of pasta. The lasagna was ordinary. Both the cannelloni and manicotti were miniscule tubes. The parmigiana was less than the size of a playing card. All this for over $30 for the plate. The pasta was homemade but there was no flavour zing to the sauce. The entire bill came to slightly over $100 for small portions. The homemade pasta is the only reason that I am giving it two stars instead of one. The food on the plate is not worthy of the price for it, and when it comes to the food, it is pretty pedestrian. The sauces do not burst...

Just slightly off a main road, easy to miss, yet fantastic restaurant that I’m sure has been here for a while, I found it through random restaurant searching in my area. It can easily get lost among all the other “Italian” restaurants if you search that. This place however, should not be overlooked. Every single one of the pasta dishes are homemade pasta. They also had a great variety of pastas on the menu. They additionally had specials, usually 2 on the menu as well. They also brought fresh bread that looked homemade as well, cannot say if in house but still homemade, and this is what they ended up doing their garlic bread on as well.

They had manicotti, rigatoni, fettuccine, lasagna, penne, tortellini, ravioli, cannolis, and of course spaghetti. Those are all the pastas I remember and there is even more, and again all homemade pasta. I got the sample plate while my S.O got the special of the night which was a ravioli stuffed with spinach and something else, covered in a sauce. I got the sample plate with chicken parm, lasagna, and manacotti and one other tube pasta dish. We also had the tiramisu for dessert and yes it seemed to be made traditionally with lady fingers and espresso. Overall if anyone is looking for a pasta meal in Ottawa, this would be my number one...