Best takeout Restaurants in Ottawa : 98 Picks for 2026

Vietnamese•Ottawa•value

La Nhau Viet Kitchen & Bar - 30+ years of Pho

Let's clear the air first: the "30+ years of Pho" tagline is a stretch.

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Burgers•Barrhaven•value

Smash Daddy - Barrhaven

Barrhaven doesn't usually top anyone's burger pilgrimage list, which is exactly why Smash Daddy's arrival at 90 Bill Leathem Dr feels like a small heist.

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Japanese•Nepean•value

Gyubee Japanese Grill (Merivale)

Gyubee Japanese Grill on Merivale is not trying to be the most refined room in Ottawa, and that's precisely the point.

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9.8

Based on 8065 reviews

Global•Vanier•value

Starbite Resto

Vanier doesn't need Starbite Resto to be precious about anything, and from what research consistently turns up, it isn't.

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NOX Eatery & Public House Inc.

Sandy Hill doesn't ask much of you, and neither does NOX — but that's the whole point.

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Vietnamese•Ottawa•value

Co Oi Kitchen

Co Oi Kitchen occupies a particular lane in Ottawa's Glebe that very few restaurants bother with: Northern Vietnamese cooking, Hà Nội-rooted and deliberately restrained, in a tradition most of the city's Vietnamese spots treat as backgro…

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Altay Flame Uyghur Cuisine

Vanier doesn't ask for your approval, and neither does Altay Flame.

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Dinette Atomique

Sandy Hill runs on neighbourhood logic — people here eat close to home, and the spots they love tend to earn loyalty quietly rather than chase attention.

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Linden Pizza

Linden Pizza in Vanier is running on a kind of genuine curiosity that's harder to fake than technique — the menu reads like it was assembled by someone who actually travels and then came home and cooked what they missed.

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La Zone 23

Mexican and Algerian under one roof sounds like a bar bet somebody actually won.

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Vietnamese•Ottawa•value

BVR No. 2 Vietnamese Restaurant (Findlay Creek)

Findlay Creek doesn't lack for takeout, but BVR No.

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Masakali Indian Cuisine

Masakali Indian Cuisine keeps showing up in the right conversations in Kanata when people want a reliable indian plan.

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Based on 12974 reviews

Turkish•Nepean•value

Agha Turkish Restaurant Ottawa

Agha Turkish Restaurant opened in Nepean in early 2025 and built a reputation faster than most new spots manage in their first year.

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Based on 12898 reviews

Indian•ByWard Market•value

Masakali Indian Resto Bar

On Clarence Street in the thick of the ByWard Market, Masakali makes a case for Indian food that isn't shy about its bar program.

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Based on 6058 reviews

Indian•Nepean•value

Sundari's Kitchen

Sundari's Kitchen in Nepean operates with the kind of focus that most restaurants are too nervous to commit to: it is a South Indian specialist, full stop, built around the dosa tradition of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka rather than the gener…

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Based on 3739 reviews

Indian•Downtown•value

Masakali Indian Cuisine

Masakali Indian Cuisine is a indian restaurant in Downtown in Ottawa that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. If Unable to extract menu items is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Based on 2164 reviews

Indian•Ottawa•value

Kalinga Indian Cuisine

Kalinga Indian Cuisine is not operating in the tikka masala comfort zone that passes for Indian food in most Ottawa strip malls.

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Based on 1729 reviews

Middle Eastern•Nepean•value

Phynicia Restaurant

Phynicia isn't chasing trends or rebranding itself as Middle Eastern-inspired anything.

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Based on 1548 reviews

Middle Eastern•Downtown•value

Shawarma AL MOUNA

Shawarma Al Mouna is a downtown Ottawa counter where the logic is refreshingly simple: one operator, one focused menu of Middle Eastern staples, and a room that seats maybe a dozen people before it gets loud.

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Based on 1310 reviews

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Japanese•Barrhaven•value

KINTON RAMEN BARRHAVEN OTTAWA

Kinton Ramen landed in Barrhaven this past October, tucking itself into a Strandherd Drive unit around the corner from the Walter Baker Sports Centre—the kind of suburban address that either becomes a weeknight habit or fades fast.

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Based on 1284 reviews

Vietnamese•Chinatown•value

Pho Tuan

The Somerset West Chinatown corridor has been the backbone of Ottawa's Vietnamese dining community for decades, and Pho Tuan is consistently cited as one of its most dependable addresses.

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Foodinator 干饭人

Foodinator 干饭人 — the name is Chinese slang for someone who eats with focused, unselfconscious intensity, roughly "the person who destroys their rice" — telegraphs its whole personality before you've seen the menu.

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Cumberland Pizza

There's a version of Ottawa pizza history that begins in 1973 on Cumberland Street, survives a 2022 fire that would have finished most operations, and comes out the other side with the same family still running the kitchen.

Pizza•ByWard Market•value

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Bistro Ristoro

Let me be upfront about what Bistro Ristoro actually is, because ByWard Market will happily drain your wallet on forgettable tourist-trap pasta if you blink.

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Japanese•Kanata•value

Kuma Takumi

Kanata rarely enters the conversation when Ottawa's Japanese food scene comes up, and Kuma Takumi seems content operating in that gap.

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Korean•Sandy Hill•value

In's Kitchen

Sandy Hill doesn't have a shortage of cheap eats, but In's Kitchen on Templeton occupies a specific lane that the neighbourhood hasn't exactly crowded out: Korean home cooking, family-run, operating with the quiet confidence of people wh…

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Chopp Chop Thai Street Food

Orleans doesn't collect a lot of food-media attention, and Chopp Chop Thai Street Food reads like a place that's entirely at peace with that.

Japanese•ByWard Market•value

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Japanese•Orleans•value

Nagi Sushi

Chef Moriyuki Hiroha reportedly spent thirty years at Ottawa's most established Japanese counter before opening his own intimate bar on St.

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Hikaru by TOMO

Hikaru by TOMO suits a night out in ByWard Market when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff. Panko Black Tiger Prawns and Wagyu Beef Gyoza also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Japanese•Nepean•value

Mandarin Restaurant

Let's clear one thing up: despite the "Japanese" label, the Mandarin on West Hunt Club is a full-throttle buffet in the Ontario tradition, part of a chain the Chiu family started back in 1979.

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Based on 20577 reviews

Japanese•Orleans•value

Mandarin Restaurant

Let's be honest about what Mandarin on Tenth Line Road is: an all-you-can-eat buffet where over 150 dishes fan out across soup and salad bars, a grill table, a prime rib counter, and a sushi corner, then keep going into an ice cream sund…

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Based on 11940 reviews

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Indian•Hintonburg•value

Dosa King South Indian Restaurant | Bar

Hintonburg has quietly developed into Ottawa's most compelling stretch for independent cooking, and Dosa King on Holland Ave is consistently cited as one of the anchors holding that reputation together.

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Based on 4063 reviews

Vietnamese•ByWard Market•value

Pho By Night

Twenty-six years on Dalhousie Street is the kind of tenure that functions as its own credential in a neighbourhood as restless as ByWard Market.

Pholunchtakeout

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Based on 3625 reviews

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Vietnamese•ByWard Market•value

#1 Best PHO Near Me in Ottawa🥇 - ParLê by Viet Fresh Vietnamese HALAL FOOD- Consumer Choice Award

ByWard Market has no shortage of Vietnamese spots, but ParLê by Viet Fresh at 313 Dalhousie occupies a structurally distinct position in that landscape — it is Ottawa's only halal-certified Vietnamese restaurant, which means it has opene…

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Based on 3077 reviews

Italian•Barrhaven•value

Via Cibo

Barrhaven gets overlooked by Ottawa's food press in a way that's almost a running joke, which makes Via Cibo at 3181 Greenbank Road genuinely worth flagging.

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Based on 2042 reviews

Middle Eastern•Centretown•value

Mr. Fez Shawarma (Downtown)

Mr.

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Based on 1851 reviews

Indian•Ottawa•value

SONA THE INDIAN KITCHEN

Sona The Indian Kitchen is not trying to be the fanciest subcontinental room in Ottawa — and that restraint is precisely what the research keeps surfacing.

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Based on 1514 reviews

Contemporary•Orleans•value

The Bad Alibi

The Bad Alibi opened in June 2021 when industry veterans Matt Lewis and Jason Morris built something deliberately for Orleans rather than exporting a downtown concept east when rents got uncomfortable.

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Based on 1456 reviews

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Pizza•Hintonburg•value

Heartbreakers Pizza - Parkdale Ave

Heartbreakers Pizza on Parkdale Ave in Hintonburg is doing something Ottawa's pizza scene has been quietly short on: New York-style pies made with genuine conviction by a family operation that seems to care about what goes in the dough a…

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Based on 1156 reviews

Pizza•Little Italy•value

Farinella Rochester

Little Italy in Ottawa isn't exactly starving for pizza, but Farinella Rochester has carved out a specific lane and seems committed to staying in it: Roman-style pies, no apologies, at a price point low enough to make you second-guess th…

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Based on 1125 reviews

Middle Eastern•Ottawa•value

El Mazaj

El Mazaj is doing something Ottawa's Middle Eastern dining scene genuinely needs: no-frills, wallet-friendly cooking that respects the source material.

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Based on 1114 reviews

Indian•Downtown•value

Deccan Delights

Downtown Ottawa's South Indian representation has a new centre of gravity, and it is pointedly not trying to be everything to everyone.

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Based on 1049 reviews

Italian•Orleans•value

Cucina da Vito

Orleans rarely pulls food writers across the city, which makes Cucina da Vito one of Ottawa's more quietly consequential restaurants.

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La French Canteen Barrhaven

Barrhaven doesn't get enough credit for knowing what it wants, and La French Canteen on Fallowfield Road seems to know exactly what it is: a gourmet burger and sandwich shop that reportedly smashed a Parisian brasserie aesthetic into a N…

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Merivale Station Restaurant

Merivale Station is not trying to impress anyone, and by all accounts that's the whole point.

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Thai•Little Italy•value

Wandee Thai Cuisine

Wandee Thai Cuisine operates out of Little Italy with the kind of low-key confidence that doesn't require much advertising — the room fills on its own.

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Japanese•Downtown•value

Sushi-ro

What Sushiro is doing in downtown Ottawa is worth understanding before you go: a deliberately small room, a short menu built around homemade sauces, and a kitchen that has decided restraint is the most coherent thing it can offer.

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Steele's Restaurant

Steele's on Merivale Road in Nepean is the kind of diner that stopped trying to impress anyone several decades ago and has been better off for it ever since.

Vietnamese•Downtown•value

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Phở việt Noodle

Ph Vit Noodle occupies the old Maniac Chicken space on Wellington Street West, and by most accounts it has settled into that address with the kind of unpretentious confidence a neighborhood actually needs.

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French•Sandy Hill•value

Signatures Restaurant

Let's clear up the most common misconception about Signatures before you dismiss it: this is not a student kitchen.

Contemporary•Orleans•value

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Honey Drip

Honey Drip is a sensible contemporary call in Orleans in Ottawa when you want something that usually lands well. Honeydrip Special and Avocado Paradise also give you a decent sense of the menu.

Japanese Ramen•ByWard Market•value

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Sansotei Ramen

Sansotei built its Ottawa reputation at the Elgin Street original, establishing itself as the city's consensus answer for serious ramen before expanding into ByWard Market.

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9.2

Based on 1575 reviews

Japanese•Little Italy•value

Kuidaore

Preston Street has plenty of restaurants pitching themselves as destinations, but Kuidaore occupies a more specific and more interesting lane: a genuine izakaya in the middle of Ottawa's Little Italy.

Sushidinnertakeout

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9.2

Based on 1422 reviews

Pür & Simple

Barrhaven is not where Ottawa food conversations typically start, which is precisely why Pür & Simple gets to matter more out there.

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9.2

Based on 1258 reviews

Japanese•Ottawa•value

J:unique kitchen

There is a particular kind of editorial confidence in a restaurant that holds a tight room on Cooper Street, takes no reservations, and closes on Mondays.

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State & Main

Let's be honest about what State & Main is: a Recipe Unlimited chain doing the downtown-cocktail-bar routine out in a Barrhaven strip on Strandherd Dr.

Middle Eastern•Kanata•value

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Tirweka

What Tirweka is doing in a Kanata strip mall deserves more attention than the exterior would ever suggest.

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Thai•Centretown•value

Sweet Basil Restaurant 🌿

Sweet Basil is doing something the Thai spots on Bank Street mostly aren't: cooking for the neighbourhood rather than performing for it.

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Noodle House 79

Let's get one thing straight: Noodle House 79 is not doing "global" in the way that word usually signals trouble — a laminated menu sprawling across three continents, committed to nothing.

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Ethiopian•Vanier•value

Habesha Restaurant

Vanier doesn't do performance dining, and Habesha fits the neighbourhood like it was built for it.

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Indian•Centretown•value

Second Wife the Indian restaurant( parking available)

Here is what Second Wife gets right that half of Ottawa's Indian restaurants fumble: it removes every excuse not to show up.

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Thai•Centretown•value

Thai Lanna Cuisine

Thai Lanna Cuisine is doing something quietly radical on the Centretown grid: it's serving northern Thai cooking — the kind rooted in Chiang Mai rather than Bangkok — at a price point that makes you wonder if the block got skipped during…

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Steakhouse•Orleans•value

Delicious Steak House

Orleans isn't exactly overrun with rooms that take beef seriously, which goes a long way toward explaining why Delicious Steakhouse has been pulling regulars back to St-Joseph Boulevard without apparently needing to try very hard.

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Based on 1507 reviews

Japanese Omakase•South Ottawa•value

Shinka Sushi Bar

Shinka Sushi Bar occupies a quiet corner of South Ottawa, and that address is genuinely part of the story.

Sushidinnertakeout

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Based on 1298 reviews

Middle Eastern•Centretown•value

SemSem

SemSem is doing something Centretown badly needed: serving Middle Eastern food that reads like a family's actual cooking rather than a diplomatically softened version of it.

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Based on 1284 reviews

Japanese•Ottawa•value

Sapporo Sushi Ottawa

Sapporo Sushi Ottawa on Carling Avenue carries a family legacy that traces back to North Toronto in 1995, when Young Ham built a quiet reputation for precise, unfussy Japanese cooking over thirteen-plus years.

Sushidinnertakeout

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Based on 1226 reviews

Thai•Downtown•value

Siam Bistro

Siam Bistro has been on the downtown Ottawa map, which makes it older than most of the Thai restaurants in this city combined.

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Based on 1129 reviews

Pizza•Downtown•value

Tennessy Willems

Tennessy Willems is the kind of place that makes you wonder why more people don't just go build the thing they want.

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Based on 1021 reviews

Vietnamese•Centretown•value

Pho Thu Do Restaurant

Thirty years of pho tradition is not a marketing line — it's a specific kind of pressure, and Pho Thu Do on Somerset Street West appears to be carrying it seriously.

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WOW SIP VANIER

Vanier doesn't spend much time worrying about what the rest of Ottawa thinks, and Wow Sip fits right into that attitude.

Middle Eastern•Centretown•value

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Jericho

Jericho carries a biography that shapes everything about how it operates.

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Fontenelle Diner

There are diners that perform nostalgia and diners that simply never stopped living it.

South Indian•East Ottawa•value

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Coconut Lagoon

Chef Joe Thottungal's Coconut Lagoon sits on St.

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8.8

Based on 2184 reviews

Thai•Ottawa•value

Khao Thai Restaurant

Khao Thai has been running on Murray Street, which in Ottawa restaurant years is practically geological time.

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8.8

Based on 1464 reviews

Japanese•Centretown•value

Izakaya Shingen

Izakaya Shingen on Bank Street is doing something Ottawa's dining scene genuinely needs: a room built around the ritual of sharing rather than the performance of dining.

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Japanese•Centretown•value

Hanabi Japanese Cuisine

Bank Street has no shortage of Japanese restaurants content to coast on teriyaki combos and safe maki, which is precisely why Hanabi at 434 Bank Street draws the kind of attention it does in Centretown.

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Piper Arms Barrhaven

Barrhaven doesn't get a lot of love from the downtown crowd, and Piper Arms seems perfectly indifferent to that dynamic.

Thai Street•Centretown•value

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Khao Street Food

Ottawa is a city where genuinely good Thai food at a reasonable price demands more effort than it should, which makes Khao Street Food's presence on Centretown's cheap eats map more consequential than its modest footprint implies.

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Pizza•Centretown•value

Johnny Farina

Johnny Farina has been running on Elgin Street — a family operation inside a former movie theatre, and the space makes that history legible.

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Based on 2739 reviews

Burgers•Orleans•value

Occo Kitchen

Orleans rarely comes up when people start debating where to eat in Ottawa, and Occo Kitchen seems to be quietly benefiting from that oversight.

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Based on 1951 reviews

Breakfast•Sandy Hill•value

Father & Sons Restaurant

Father & Sons on Osgoode Street has been operating in Sandy Hill, which means it was feeding University of Ottawa students before most of them were born.

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Based on 1827 reviews

Vietnamese•Centretown•value

New Pho Bo Ga La

New Pho Bo Ga La has been an anchor on Somerset Street West for over fifteen years, and the room makes no effort to pretend otherwise.

Pholunchtakeout

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Based on 1759 reviews

Mexican•Nepean•value

Casa México Merivale

Casa México Merivale isn't chasing ambition — it's chasing relevance, and on a stretch of Merivale Road where strip-mall dining trends toward the forgettable, that's the shrewder play.

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Based on 1382 reviews

Greenfield's Public House

Barrhaven gets dismissed as Ottawa's culinary afterthought — chain restaurants, strip-mall sushi, nowhere to actually eat late — and Greenfields Public House seems to exist specifically to make that reputation awkward.

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Based on 1342 reviews

Global•Vanier•value

The Soca Kitchen

Vanier has been quietly eating better than the rest of Ottawa for years, and The Soca Kitchen on Beechwood is a legitimate reason why.

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American•Orleans•value

Chuck’s Roadhouse

Chuck's Roadhouse in Orleans isn't reaching for anything it can't grab — and that's the whole point.

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No Forks Given

No Forks Given is a hand-food concept on Somerset East in Sandy Hill, and the name is genuinely descriptive rather than cute.

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Thai•Centretown•value

Social Thai

Social Thai on Bank Street is doing something quietly contrarian in a city that has plenty of Thai spots content to coast on familiarity.

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The Bridge Public House

The Bridge Public House operates on a logic most Ottawa restaurants have quietly abandoned: that a good burger, a cold drink, a dog at your feet, and river light on the water is actually enough.

Pizza•ByWard Market•value

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The Grand Pizzeria and Bar

The Grand Pizzeria and Bar has one of the more interesting origin stories in Ottawa dining — and the building at 74 George St earns that claim before a single pizza comes out of the oven.

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8.4

Based on 4188 reviews

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French•Orleans•value

St. Martha's Brasserie d'Orléans

Orleans is the part of Ottawa that restaurant conversation tends to skip over — the suburb people drive through, not to.

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Working Title Kitchen

Working Title Kitchen operates out of a century-old Anglican church in Sandy Hill, and the room is apparently smart enough not to oversell that fact.

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Pizza•Centretown•value

Al'deewan (Manak'eesh) Bakery (OTTAWA)

Al'deewan (Manak'eesh) Bakery (OTTAWA) is an easy pizza option in Centretown in Ottawa to suggest without needing a long explanation. Manakeesh and Lebanese Mini Pies also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Ramen•Sandy Hill•value

Taki Ramen

Taki Ramen is a sensible ramen call in Sandy Hill in Ottawa when you want something that usually lands well. Gyoza and Edamame also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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4.8

Based on 1749 reviews

Turkish•Ottawa•value

A La Istanbul Turkish Cuisine

A La Istanbul Turkish Cuisine is an easy turkish option in Ottawa to suggest without needing a long explanation. Sigara Böreği and Grilled Jumbo Shrimp also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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4.7

Based on 1736 reviews

Thai•Ottawa•value

Champa Thai Cuisine

Champa Thai Cuisine is an easy thai option in Ottawa to suggest without needing a long explanation. Deep Fried Shrimp Spring Rolls and Chicken Satay also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Pakistani•Ottawa•value

New Desi Zaiqa Restaurant

New Desi Zaiqa Restaurant is an easy pakistani option in Ottawa to suggest without needing a long explanation. Chicken Samosa and Bun Kebab also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Indian•Centretown•value

Turmeric South Indian Restaurant | Bar

Turmeric South Indian Restaurant | Bar is an easy indian option in Centretown in Ottawa to suggest without needing a long explanation. Paneer Pakora and Chicken 65 also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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4.5

Based on 244 reviews