Pocopazzo

Love this place! We have a young family and cannot usually get out to eat. We do take-​out here once a week and it has yet to disappoint! Highly recommend this place.

Delicious food! I felt like I was back in Italy with the authentic cuisine. The staff are always pleasant, and we have taken to having work celebrations there as they handle our large party with patience. Definitely a bit pricey, but totally worth it for a fun or romantic dinner!

My husband and I showed up here on a Saturday night, I’d been once before and remembered the food was good. We were able to get a table but there were only a couple free-​so next I will make sure we reserve. It is a cute place, nice ambiance, great for a date night.
The food was terrific! We shared an artichoke appetizer, amazing bread, and pasta that wouldn’t quit-​read big portions, we had leftovers.
If it weren’t for the service this place would be 5 star-​but the service was lack luster. Took 15 minutes just to get in a drink order. If they get a handle on the service they’d turn tables much quicker. It seemed the whole place had tables of people who looked frustrated and tired of waiting.
I take –2 stars, it was bad. The food however was ahhhmazing! And perhaps now I will opt for take out?!

I can only comment on a few dishes as I always seem to order the same thing. and I order it because it’s so good. Their lunch special of manicotti and salad is always very good. Service is personable and quick. It’s a very reliable place to go to.

So I finally went here and dined-​in recently (instead of just getting delivery).
The place is nicely decorated and small and cozy, but also very noisy. The tables are not that close together, and you can’t really hear people’s conversations, it’s just really loud in there (maybe due to the high ceilings).
The service is friendly and competent. Waters were re-​filled without prompting.
The presentation of the food is much nicer when you eat in compared to delivery (where everything is just slopped into a container). I had the Cannelloni ($ 19). The plate had 3 cannelloni on it. They were rolled really skinny, but were stuffed with ground meat. The menu said there was spinach in it, but I actually didn’t see or taste any. The cannelloni were covered in a meaty tomato sauce and melted cheese. The dish was delicious and I quite enjoyed it. The sauce had a lot of meat in it and they were generous with the cheese.
My husband had the Gnocchi Sorrentina ($ 19). I stole a gnocchi from his plate. It was nothing remarkable. It was in a tomato sauce without meat and covered in melted cheese. The portion was generous. My husband liked it, but I found it rather boring.
My father-​in-​law had the Salmone Alla Griglia ($ 24). I talk about this in my previous review. Again I didn’t taste it, so other than the mention of the price, I have nothing to add from my previous review about this dish, except the presentation was really nice at the restaurant (the dill sauce was in a little bowl on the side) and vegetables were nicely arranged), as opposed to in delivery when the sauce was everywhere and the vegetables, potatoes and salmon where all over the place.
The complimentary bread was fresh and warm. It was a little doughy and yeasty, but still good enough to soak up the delicious tomato sauce.
Our dine-​in experience was better than our delivery experiences.
Just a note: as of the writing of this review, the prices on their website are lower than the prices in the actual restaurant by a few dollars.

This is our go-​to place for special occassions. Start with homemade bread and olive oil, great calamari and fresh pasta. Agreed that it is not cheap, but a quaint place with great atmosphere considering the strip-​mall location. Highly recommended for a fantastic meal!

This restaurant is a strong 3 star choice, in my opinion. They do have two locations — the other one is on March Road but I’ve never been there.
My husband and I decided to go to this local restaurant for the pasta to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It’s not a fancy-​dress restaurant, it’s about average. The prices are on the higher side, but the décor is not so upscale to compensate for the prices. It’s small things, such as dim lighting; the crowded tables, and the chairs aren’t that comfy. It was hard to talk to my husband without feeling like the people at the next tables were listening; certainly we could overhear people around us at the other tables! Don’t look for an intimate meal here, which is unfortunate!
On the upside, service was good if not overly attentive (there were 3 or 4 servers, and the place was quite full, including the patio out front). the food was very tasty and the plates were quite full! Good things about the menu: «Angela’s favourites» — this is the Chef’s wife, who has listed her favourite items throughout the menu. I believe she is right! I ordered a soup that was divine, and the main course was very good. Not so good: I wish the menu items weren’t listed only in Italian! After asking about the name of the dish, I had something called «Gemelli con Manzo» (Gemelli turns out to be some kind of pasta). This was delicious, and very well laid out on the plate. My husband seemed to enjoy his meal too. And this is one place that offers you starter-​bread with dipping oil which was very tasty.

My husband and I have been here twice. Cute restaurant but probably the most poorly prepared and presented pasta we have ever had. Glad the second time was a gift certificate because we wouldn’t have wanted to have paid for this lackluster food.

Nice restaurant, albeit in a strip mall. This being said though, nice ambiance, not too many tables.
Food was excellent. Their pesto sauce is very good! Would have preferred pine nuts over walnuts in sauce, but that might personal taste. Veal Marsala was also ordered at my table and it looked great, wish I could have tried it.
No problem recommending this restaurant to someone. Service was very good, but nothing to write about.

I’ve been pretty consistent with rating poor service in my reviews. This is the first place that I’ve received poor service and rated it more than 2 stars. Please read on…
We arrived at Pocopazzo around 11:45 am for lunch. We sat down to wait for the rest of our party and let our server know that we were waiting on others. We were the only table at the restaurant. When our group arrived we decided to go outside and our server helped setup a table outside. It took the server a good 15 – 20 minutes to get us water and some cutlery. This should have raised a flag as we were the only table at the retaurant.
I want to avoid going into every detail but the server turned out extremely slow, got 3 out of 5 orders wrong, the manager came out to find out what we ordered and apologize as the server was new. One of the lunches were brought out. We waited another 20+ minutes for our meals. The fifth person with us ordered the same thing as the person who had their meal brought out and got his meal a good 10 minutes after everyone else. Our bill was incorrect due to our incorrect order. The update was still incorrect. It took another 20 minutes to sort out the bill.
When the orders were incorrect the owner came out to offer us free drinks and we turned it down as we weren’t really interested but really appreciated the offer. THANK YOU to the owner of Pocopazzo for being the first restaurant in Ottawa to offer me a comp when the restaurant messes up!!! This is the first experience in 6 years I’ve had in Ottawa were I’ve been offered a comp due to horrible service or an incorrect order and its happened to me quite a bit.
I’ve been to many restaurants out of town and been comped for less than what happened at Pocopazzo. Again I’ve rarely accepted anything it’s just the gesture that is awesome. This is the first time it’s happened to me in Ottawa.
Apart from the bad service experience I have to say the pasta dish I had was really good. The pasta was well cooked and the pasta was nice, the gorgonzola sauce was creamy and delicious but not overly thick and the chicken was cooked well. If I come back and the food is just as good Pocopazzo would definitely get 4 stars out of me.