Bistro Ristoro

Discover Bistro Ristoro IN OTTAWA'S BYWARD MARKET

When Lidija and Vlado came to Canada three years ago, they planned to open a Mediterranean restaurant that would be unique, authentic, and refreshing. They have succeeded!

“We new we wanted to be somewhere central. When we found this space in Ottawa's ByWard Market, we already had an idea for the style, the food, even for the drinks, including the wine,” says Lidija. Of course, getting a restaurant up and running was no easy job. It was a lot of hard work. “It took us a while to prepare this place,” says Lidija. “It was completely different before we renovated!” After eight months of remodeling, the restaurant opened for business.

Bistro Ristoro’s menu offers a wide variety of food and drink. “We serve Eastern and Western Mediterranean food” says Vlado, meaning Italian, French, Greek, and Balkan food. These culinary traditions inspire the menu at the bistro and are all well represented. One of their signatures is their pizza dough. It is made fresh daily according to a century-old recipe, and the pizzas are fired in a brick pizza oven visible at the back of the restaurant. Vlado and Lidija believe their dough is something special, and their customers do too.

“The people coming to our restaurant realize the difference between our pizza and other pizza offered here in the market,” Vlado says proudly with a smile. “All things are made from scratch in our restaurant. We don’t use anything frozen, artificial or semiprepared. Everything is prepared by our hands,” he promises.

Come by in the summer months and enjoy a meal or glass of wine and an appetizer on the patio n