Riverside Pizzeria Ottawa — Restaurant in Ottawa

Tasty pizza and poutine.

Food: 4.0 / 5 Service: 4.5 / 5

I ordered a small thin crust tango special pizza (pep, mushrooms, onions, black olives, bacon). Crust was indeed thin, soft yet chewy enough on the inside, with a good crisp on the outside. It also came with a garlic dough bread ball which was a nice bite to start with.

The dips seem to be made in house based on the basic plastic container packaging. The garlic was the thin runnier type, and the southwest being the thicker mayo based dip. Both were pretty great.

As for the poutine, it had the right amount of gravy and cheese curds for the fries. Unfortunately the cheese was too melted for my liking, where you can tell it isn’t the kind of strongly curded cheese usually used in great poutines. The fries were also mushy and broke easily when pried with the fork. But the overall taste of the poutine was there, so if you don’t mind a soggy soupy poutine, which some people actually prefer, then this will do it for you!

Staff were friendly. It seemed like the employee that originally packed my order forgot to include the dips, which was noticed and brought up by another employee as they were about to bring it to me in the front, so props to them for...

I update my review. I wanted to give one last chance and it was really their last. Their pizza is bathed in oil until it arrives home, the dough underneath the pizza has a wet dough texture... really not pleasant to eat. I also ordered a small poutine and the container is barely filled, nothing to do with the previous owners. The new owners seem to want to cut the quality of their product in order to have more profits. Really disappointing. It used to be a place where we ordered about once a week, but that's over.

We just ordered beef nachos but it's disappointing. The poor quantity of meat does not justify the additional $3, if we had 5 small pieces of beef it was fine. The quality of their nacho has changed too. Looks like there has been a change of ownership, we were regulars and clearly there are a few things that have changed and not for the good. We loved their pizza, we will try next time to see if the recipe has changed, hoping not otherwise we will change...

Ordered their BBQ chicken pizza and their cinnamon bites on Uber Eats.

The pizza was generous in toppings and cheese, and the toppings and cheese were good quality ingredients. The dough was also quite good. I was under the impression the BBQ sauce would be on top, but it was instead of tomato sauce. I also think it was more of a hot sauce than a BBQ sauce, but there wasn't enough sauce to really tell.

The garlic dip was alright, but it was pretty expensive for the small size, and I found it watery/runny, more like a salad dressing consistency than a dip consistency.

The cinnamon bites were really chewy, and not as sweet as I would have expected. With the Nutella, that's fine because that will balance it out, but I couldn't taste much cinnamon either. There was, however, a weird kind of chemical aftertaste to them that I can't quite put my finger on.

Overall, I think I'd order from them again, but stick to a pizza with a tomato sauce base and skip on the...