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Preston Street

Preston Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 4N2, Canada
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Ranked #30 of 103 attractions in Ottawa
Type: Landmarks/ Points of Interest, Neighbourhoods
Description: The "Little Italy" section of Ottawa including a nice selection of restaurants.
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Gatineau, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 24 April 2013

If you are looking for a street with a wide variety of restaurents you can't do better than Prestion. It also has a remarkable hardware store where you can make great discoveries. Service is generally good everywhere. I really enjoy Il Primo restaurent. I am becoming a regular there.

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See 6 more reviews by Diane B for Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 January 2013

Too many over sauced quasi Italian recipes in the restaurants and not at all cheap - but nothing in Ottawa is. There are some good restaurants but haven't found one recently.

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Ottawa, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 13 January 2013

This is just a great walk. The street has been refurbished and there are so many great coffee shops and places to buy cheese like Luciano foods that it makes your spin. Luciano foods has hams hanging and wonderful Italian breads as well as cheeses etc...like stepping into Italy. Preston street is very vibrant, alive and a lot of fun

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See 30 more reviews by Karine427 for Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 29 December 2012

great lots of cute restaurants nice walks by dows lake italian food yum yum parking is a little tricky at times especially in the winter - - good luck

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Ottawa, Canada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 29 November 2012

we live near here but the 5* event is the ferrari festival in june - free, up close experiences with ferraris, audis, alfa romeos, etc etc. i am not big into cars but really enjoy this festival - great fun.

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See 3 more reviews by starmoras for Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 October 2012

Great neighbourhood for all kinds of things. Cafes to hi-end restaurants, and the best Italian coffee and pastries and gelattos. here ared so many restaurants we like to visit here, i could not list them all.

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Ottawa, Canada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 October 2012

Alot of people know about Preston Street and viva italia and my sister and I went to a great restaurant there that my father visited before and I believe this was among the first times I ate mussels and it was quite good.

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See 14 more reviews by Treena L for Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 14 October 2012

It's out of the way, for us, so we've only been there 3 times since we discovered it a few years ago. But the food service and wine menu are all simply excellent! You cannot go wrong with this cozy restaurant with the fresh pasta!

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See 9 more reviews by Everywhere_Man_YOW for Ottawa
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 September 2012

Other than StoneFace Dolly's, there's not much interesting about Preston Street although the potential is there.

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See 26 more reviews by PlateIt for Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 August 2012

Italian street with quite a few Italian restaurants where the food is really good. It is a nice walk to check out the shops and stores.

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