Reviews for Nova Ristorante in Scarborough, ON

Nova Ristorante is simply a large, restaurant-style seating area beside a Pizza Nova take-out location. The food will offend... Italians. It is a mockery of Italian cuisine. The Mediterranean Salad had such potential, but it was completely covered indressing. It was disgusting. The 'chef' doesn't understand that dressing is used to augment flavours, not douse them. The saladwas practically a soup. I suggest that salad dressing be provided in a container beside the salad so that patrons can add it asdesired. The Veal Parmigiana was disappointing. The veal was overcooked (crispy in places), and the cheese wasn't meltedproperly onto the veal because it would not stay on the veal while cutting the veal with a knife. The spaghetti was lame. Thecheesecake was good. There was nothing delicate or sophisticated about this meal. It was horrible fast-food. I regrettedchoosing to eat at this restaurant as soon as I saw the salad. The prices are very high, and the food is very bad. It is amystery why anyone would return to Nova Ristorante. I still feel nauseous from eating the food, about six-hours later. I regreteating at Nova Ristorante. Read more

So we went to this place with my husband to have dinner and I would say the place looks beautiful, love the interior, calm... scenery and light. Coming to the food we ordered, we wanted to have starter "squid ring with home dip"(i forgot its acyual namefrom.the menu), it came with salad and the sad part is that half of the salad was rotten and I complained to the server (who wascalm and i assume he is new to the place too) and told him let alone in a restaurant we don't make salad adding rotten leafs inour homes, and I don't think he understood what we said and came shortly after we told him to pick the plate told us "its astarter", which we told him we know its a starter and our complain was for the rotten salad we were given. We then orderedLasagna (well done) and ravioli spinach, the ravioli wasn't impressive and was below my adjection, but i have to be honest andsay the lasagna was perfectly made! Price was okay too! Finally when we pay the pay we were told we can pay half for thestarter (I didn't wanna argue, but we weren't supposed to pay for it). I don't think i will go again, but if I wanna go again,i will only go for the lasagna. The 3 star is for the Lasagna. I could give it 0 star for the shock we experienced from thesalad. ???? Read more

This used to be a place my wife and I would go to fairly often. Food was good and the service too. However, last night... wasn’t the case. We haven’t been to the restaurant side of this place in a good while, so I guess things have changed a bitbut not really for the best. The menu had shrunken down quite a bit and you can no longer order different sized pizzas ifthat’s what you want to order and share. You can only get a small size. So we each ordered our own, mine definitely couldhave been cooked longer as the pepperoni was crisped enough and was kind of slimy. Seems like they just tried to rush it andtime it with my wife’s pizza but it didn’t turn out too well. The garlic bread was very garlicky but at least the ceasarsalad was decent. Our server was pretty slow too. Now the place was not busy at all, there was us, a table of four and then atable of two. The server seemed to be to the only one running the floor. So for a not too busy place, I can’t see why theservice was so slow. The price was a bit high too for two people to have dinner. We also order a couple of pasta dishes fromhere a previous time and the quality of that went down a bit too. The chickens was way over cooked and dry and the amount offood was less then before which felt like a jip because again it wasn’t cheap. I get times have changed and costs are bithigher, but for what we ordered, the cost was just too much. It’s unfortunate because this was a place we would go to often,even had our engagement party here too. Now, not too sure if we will return again. Read more

They have nice selection of slices on the pizza section. Staff are very helpful and knowledgeable. I highly recommend to come... and try the pizza’s and their pastas . Their dine in was impeccable and excellent service by the waiter and waitresses . Ihighly recommend their chicken parmesan and meat lasagna. Very clean and well maintained. They also have nice selection of winesand spirits. My favourite is raspberry pink blossom drink . Overall, i had a nice experience. Read more

Safi, Dewar and all the staff were wonderful. Our family had a function here and all the food was amazing. Service was excellent... and everyone raved about the food. I want to thank all the staff and Management for their hospitality. Everyone should come outand have a wonderful meal here! Read more

Usually had good pizzas and customer services. However, today I found very less cheese on my veggie pizza, even didn’t cover... the pizza properly. Read more

Ordered Veal Milanese a popular dish. It was over cooked, tough & dry. Server apologized & took the dish back to the kitchen. I... had Lasagna instead and asked if I can have arugula salad on the side for free. The server obliged and I'm glad. Read more

Went to this Restaurant for Valentines Day with my wife. The place was not very busy and we were able to get a table... immediately. They had just waitress covering the whole dine-out area. I think that is because they were not busy. We ordered aBruschetta, rigatoni Nerano pasta and Portobello Mushroom Sandwich. The service was pretty quick. The pasta was delicious. Ifound the burger to be a tad sweet. Not sure if that is how it is supposed to be. Overall, we had a decent experience and Iwould be happy to return back. Cheers! Read more