Baccara (Le)-Casino Du Lac Leamy

Absolutely phenomenal. The service is impeccable. The food id not only beautiful to look at but is just delicious. I have been here many times over the last 10 years and I can say that every single time has been perfect. It is more expensive than some other restaurant but it is well worth it. Highly recommend it for a special event of just as a treat for yourself.

Finally I am reviewing my favourite restaurant!
Just wow. I love this establishment. It is our go-​to spot for a night out or when having a little vacay across the bridge and staying at the Hilton.
I love dressing up and going here. They make you feel very special and the service is how service should be at this level of restaurants. And if you are very lucky you get a window seat.
The food, all I can say is that it is beyond comparison to most in Ottawa. I have never been there on an off night. It is always so beautifully plated and your server will explain each dish with flourish! If you appear to be a serious Foodie you just might also get an invitation for a wee visit into the main kitchen area and a conversation with Chef.
Even though I can’t drink at the moment I have, in the past, visited the wine room to choose the bottle that fits my taste and mood of the moment. I could live in there quite happily for a long time. They have such wonderful selections. And they take their wine very seriously; the Sommelier knows every wine available. They have enough of a selection to please even the fussiest of aficionados.
Back to the food. While artfully plated, the food is so much more than a pretty face. It is prepared with care and strict adherence to 5 star caliber. Everything just melts in your mouth and is a little piece of heaven with each bite. I will say though that there are some things I do not eat due to moral issues and it can be difficult to choose something on their menu if you don’t eat veal or foie gras.
On our last visit my dining partner chose the pan-​seared Palet d’or beef tenderloin with duck foie gras butter, pierogies with aged cheddar cheese, celeriac purée, caramelized shallots, accompanied with a Port wine sauce. When someones eyes roll into the back of their head, you know you have a winning dish.
I had the roasted deer tenderloin in a juniper crust, potato rösti with boar bacon, beet and amelanchier berry compote, seasonal baby vegetables, wild blackberry coulis, with venison jus. I was completely in love with this dish and would order it again and again if there wasn’t changes every time we visit.
All in all it is a place for a special time or if you want french gourmet food that completely runs roughshod over any other restaurant in the Ottawa region.

I have to give this place 5 stars; there was absolutely wonderful! The food was great, the service was great, and so was the company we were with. There were plenty of waiters, filling up the water glasses, and speaking in either French or English (I got to practice in real time!!) to answer questions or explain what the dishes were that we were served.
We were a group of 8, who celebrates the holidays with an upscale restaurant every year, which gives us the chance to try French cuisine at its finest — something we don’t do to this extent, for the whole rest of the year! This restaurant is over the top on the scale of top notch. The price range alone puts them at the top of the range. We went there expecting this.
Upsides: although the portions would definitely not feed a family of 6 until after the holidays (meaning: portions appear to be small), the food was wonderful. Expect to have a too-​large plate placed in front of you with a little dab of food in the centre of it. Seems funny and perhaps a bit odd, or more likely it’s just my uneducated palate, but I have to admit to being quite full at the end of the dinner, in spite of the too large plates offering what seemed to be small food.
What to expect: Don’t come in here if you’re in any kind of a hurry. We sat down at 7:00pm, and didn’t finish licking the last desert spoon until 11:00pm. Apparently this is normal.
Extra special: Since our party was a reasonable size, and we of course ordered a wide variety of foods, our meals would take some time to prepare to perfection. So, they brought us a sample of pâté on a cracker of some sort. It was not huge, by any means (about the size of a thumb-​nail), but they did not charge us for it.
Finally, this is not an every day kind of restaurant. In a typical comparisons with normal every-​day restaurants that I frequent, I would probably give this place a 4.5 stars. I am not likely to go back because of the forbidding prices, but this experience was really good. This restaurant would be a good place to propose marriage, or another life event, but the prices put it a little out of the ordinary, at least for me.

We have been to Baccara several times, always for special occasions. I give it 4 stars, but it should be 3 ½ only. On April 6^th we went for our 46^th Anniversary, and I hate to say it but — something was off! We sat for 35 minutes before our waiter came to the table. Then waited another 20 for our wine. Then the food while good, wasn’t outstanding like it usually was. I found the vegetables very ordinary, boiled with too much butter, parsnips? We were there from 7 – 11:30. Long night of sitting,

Alright ladies and gentlemen, the old saying you get what you pay for its true. now I’ve only been to Baccara once, and it was amazing. Not only was the food and atmosphere great, the staff were top notch. Now a couple such as my fiancé and I aren’t the usual crowd in a place as pricey as Baccara. I have to say it seems the staff went the extra steps to make us feel welcome.
Steak Tar-​tar was great
The Sommelier had great suggestions for wine
I felt like king for 2 hours
If you don’t have money to blow don’t go there, but if you get lucky at the black jack tables in the Casino, a great place to have a quality meal with the special some-​one!