La Bruschetta

This is a family run restaurant with staff that is very pleasant but not professional enough for the prices they charge. I had a brie salad which was very good. I had the veal special with tomato but the portion was small and the taste was only ok. My wife had the shrimp pasta special and only got two small shrimps
which was 25 dollars. the pasta was good but should had larger or a few more shrimp. I found the food to be ok but the value not great

Loved it. Still my favorite place in town.
Very short menu. Has been the same for years. Solid. Good. Authentic Italian

Great meal!
Truly authentic Italian food. We felt as if we were in Italy.
Highly recommend it.

Wonderful expertise. Great food. Pleasant and helpful staff. We will be back.

Sylvia always welcomes me with a smile and a feeling that she's anxious to please and make me a safe meal. I have a fatal food allergy and I've learned to trust her and the chef to prepare my favourite Veal Marsala with care. Roger, my server, was accommodating and friendly as usual and delivered our meal with care and concern. Thank you to all.

Best restaurant in Toronto

Simple menu but perfectly done. Pasta dishes are great. Service very attentive but also casual, not stuffy or overwhelming. I HATE when a server asks how things are when you obviously have your mouth full- that didn't happen here. Although the question was posed. And I believe if a negative comment was made it would be relayed directly.

We really enjoyed our experience at Breschetta. Our server was excellent. He was very kind, attentive and friendly. The food was delicious.

Fantastic experience. It’s been there for 40 plus years and it’s not hard to imagine why...

Ok so all the rave reviews I’ve heard are true!
Excellent food! Started off with bruschetta, caesar salad and then had the gnocchi !
What a pleasurable evening!

Mediocre. Service was fair but our server did not come around often..we had to ask for everything, nothing was offered such as more water or another drink.

We have been coming to La Bruschetta for years. Still one of our favorite restaurants in Toronto. Short Menu. Classic Italian. All made from scratch. Wonderful. Not hip, trendy, noisy. Just really good. Period.

The food is always amazing and the service is wonderful, such lovely people!

Amazing food! Authentic Italian goodness!

It’s always the best!

Family-owned restaurant with cuisine based on Umbrian recipes and Umbrian olive-oil.

it was so amazing. staff was wonderful and kind. would 100% visit again

I have a food allergy and without fail, Sylvia always sits with me and we design a safe menu based on my allergy list which she pretty well knows by heart at this point - I've been to La Bruschetta many times. I feel safe & know that my meal will adhere to my allergy list and that it will be delicious. It's my 'go to' restaurant when I want veal Marsala.

It was mediocre: nothing I would write home about or feel the need to repeat anytime soon.

They did not have a table for us despite confirming the evening before.We were told they do not deal with open table and to phone the restaurant ourselves for a table. The waiter was most unhelpful Rocco was his name .We left without an apology despite being regular customers .I use open table quite Frequently and have never had this problem before but this is the first time I have used it for La bruschetta.The whole situation spoiled our evening.

Always an excellent meal. You can’t go wrong with anything on the menu.

The food was amazing and it was able to set an impeccable mood. The earlier in the night the quieter it is. In ny recent (2018) experience, on Saturday, 6:30 is the perfect time.

We travel from Rochester, NY to go to La Bruschetta, and are never diappointed. The food is authentic homemade Italian, the owners are wonderful and have created a fantastic family atmosphere. We have come as just a couple and have brought larger groups. We love it and look forward to our next visit!

As always, excellent in all aspects. I cook, and will come here for Italian as I will usually get an idea for cooking a little bit differently at home, for the better.

Just as we remembered it from years ago...a really nice restaurant with outstanding food. I highly recommend the antipasto plate and the daily specials. We’ll be back soon.

i was unpleasantly surprised. As soon as i arrived with my party we were greeted and seated and for a long while nothing else. Completely neglected. We had no idea who was serving us and no attempts to approach us was made. Eventually what i imagine to be the owner or manager approached us with no enthusiasm and seemed more bothered to serve if anything else. no info on the menu, any special dishes, not even a hello. The food was tasty but that’s about it. A lesson in treating all clients the same way should be taught to la bruschetta! Very disappointing, i should have made my own pasta dish at home!

This was our first visit to the restaurant and we find the service good. We were served with Italian bread and Bruschetta as a starter, followed by the Caesar Salad which is a generous serving goos for two. We drove quite a distance to come to this place. Overall the place is decent, the food is good but I don't think we'll be back to this place due to the driving distance.

This is not the same place we have visited in the past when we went to Toronto. It used to be excellent, with a great crowd, professional waitstaff, and stunning food. I remember coming in to find the half of the people in the restaurant were speaking Italian; the food was bound to be authentic!

Apparently the same family still owns the place, but it's not the same. The food was good, but not great. The service was abysmal. Getting seated was almost an afterthought by the folks there, and although our waitress was very personable and very nice, she never looked up when she walked through the dining room. We literally had to wave down someone when we needed help. This happened repeatedly throughout the evening.

It was telling that there were only a few people in the restaurant. This was on a Saturday night. In the past, if we were there on a weekend night, the place was slammed. No more.

I guess I can see why. We have now crossed this place off our list of places we like to go when we are in Toronto, and we've been going back to this place for a lot of years. Too bad, this place used to be a treat.

Extremely accommodating with the menu, and meals were fantastic.

Very good authentic Italian food, loved it as always which is not often enough

Always delicious! Much attention is paid to my allergies & I am so appreciative to have a neighbourhood restaurant that prepares safe food for me.

We have only ever had fantastic meals at La Bruschetta! Excellent Italian dishes cooked with confidence and served with pride.

Good. A slightly aged and worn neighborhood italian restaurant with a family owner feeling. The mushroom pasta was perfect, great sauce and lots of mushrooms. A little shy about garlic. The lamb-stuffed rigitoni was rich and filling. Fine salad and good light dressing. Didn't like the radio (!) for background music and talk. Really? Also, we were at first seated directly under the speaker even though there were many other tables. After we were moved, the two servers were dedicated and efficient. Pleasant but not memorable. The owner sat at the bar in the back all night looking at receipts and the calculator. She never once looked at the customers and had a frown on her face every time we looked her way. She sat briefly and had a few laughs in a booth with what looked to be a group of her friends. OK if you are in the neighborhood, otherwise not worth a trip.

Delicious food and excellent service. Our waiter was very welcoming. We enjoyed our dinner.

Worst service ever! Rude staff and mediocre food...I would never go back.

Very good pasta dishes and meat dishes. No chicken dishes.

The service is very slow, the food is average, nothing to rave about. We will not be going back.
At the end it took over 15 minutes to pay the bill.

Food is awesome here. Wines are good but pricey. There should be a couple of options in the 30 to 40 dollar range. Otherwise excellent little restaurant.

Nice quite experience. The service friendly and warm.

We visited for the the first time for a Birthday celebration. It happened to be during Summerlicious. It was extremely busy! Despite reservations many people with reservations had to wait quite a while for a table. With limited space, pepople were crowded around the front of the restaurant and around our table. We were seated at our table and Summerlicious menus were on the table. Our Server vanished. We waited quite some time for a Server to return. Given our lack of greeting and how busy they were, we assumed the Summerlicious menu was only available. Our order was taken. Our Sever tried to run away, but we asked for a drinks menu. Our Server suggested a bottle of wine, and we never saw a menu. The food flew at us in different courses. It was delicious! After our dessert flew at us, we realized no drinks would be offered here either. We apologized to our Birthday guest, asked for the bill which took a long time, and had coffee and liqueur elsewhere. We noticed that the regular clientele were treated VERY differently! Menus were given to them and the Servers seemed quite attentive. We were ignored, which sadly tainted our experience. The food was very good, but our impression was that this is strictly a local establishment.