Restaurant E18hteen

e18hteen has been one of my favourite restaurants. I loved the ambiance, and the location of the restaurant was perfect whenever we had visitors from out of town. The seafood here was always very fresh. All dishes were super nicely presented. We ate the seafood and meat with minimal sauces so we still tasted the sweet and fresh taste. The desserts lack wow factors and were mediocre.

Took my girlfriend to restaurant e18hteen for her birthday. Staff was very friendly extremely knowledgeable with what wines to pair with the food we ordered. Presentation and amount of food was perfect. Meal was cooked to desired tenderness. Atmosphere was trendy and cozy. It was AMAZING!! A must dine in if you are visiting the Ottawa downtown core.

Amazing food. I was really impressed with the steak. The steak itself is already juicy and well seasoned, but the sauce just elevates it to another level. You can taste the attention to detail made by the chef. I am blown away that a restaurant in Ottawa has such quality food. I will definitely come back again.

Phenomenal fine dining experience - arguably one of the best in Ottawa!! these guys are the masters of their craft in every shape and form - the service was top notch, I believe our main server's name was Jason, and he was an absolute beauty... Checked up on us regularly and made for great conversation/gave us lots of great suggestions & info, while also giving us lots of room to enjoy ourselves and the food... which was out of this world!!! The Foie gras had lots of interesting taste/texture combinations with the various sauces/chocolate crumbles it was served with. HUGE portions of duck/steak cooked to perfection for our main courses - steak was on the saltier side but delicious nonetheless. We really appreciated the fine attention to detail, both for the food and the service we received - they noticed we were taking photos of the engagement rings we had just picked up at the mall, and gave us a celebratory dessert which was a very kind gesture :)) we will definitely be back!

The pre-dinner bread is great! Very fluffy! Like an orange sauce (orange something, white one, forget the name), the shrimp are very tender and very fresh. Wanna to try the Duck, but it was sold out, so ordered the Ribeye, the mushrooms were a bit salty and the fries were great. The waiter recommended a martini, unique taste, not very strong, like it! The only problem is that it's a bit slow to serve. And sorry for broken a glass.

Had a lovely dinner here with friends. The service was definitely great👍🏻 I loved my well done steak was perfectly cooked, along with the peppercorn sauce, mashed potatoes and Caesar salad. The appetizer we had octopus and lobster poutine, the fries were very crispy. I really like the Gelato, they are not too sweet and raspberry flavour was sour, which is my favourite.

For that price range I had very high expectations! I mean if you pay 200$ per person, you just assume it will be great. There are some points why I am giving them 3 stars: 1. Staff - we used to have very different experience for that class of restaurants. Staff at e18hteen wasnt really “interested” in serving tables. For examples, once we received all 3 starters they explained just one of them and then left. I was waiting for them to come back and to explain the rest.. or why would you explain just one of them? Are others not that special? 2. Food - food was good, but for every dish I had tried a better version somewhere else. (And cheaper!) so I expected octopus to be much better from what I had somewhere else because it costs 3 time more… and it wasnt.