Sat outside overlooking the street. A bit nippy but the pasta was so good we didn't mind. Our service lagged a bit as the restaurant grew busier, and we didn't receive an item, but it still was an enjoyable and nice way to end our trip. read more

We have eaten here three times in the past three weeks and have enjoyed every meal. The Shrimp Scampi is fabulous, along with the pizza and espresso martini's. Bread is served with your meal and is fresh and good. read more

Went for a bday. Drinks were amazing, esp the espresso martini. Our meals were outstanding and the service was attentive and friendly

Great service even though the place was PACKED, we sat at the bar and the staff were amazing to chat with and super kind! The pizza was perfect and my drink was amazing. read more

The Twisted Pig - Espresso Martini - Italian Near Me - St. Catharines, Ontario

Wonderful spot with outdoor, dog friendly seating. Great pastas! Pizza oven gave a wonderful vibe to the experience! Great service. read more

The Twisted Pig - Spaghetti and meatballs, marscapone gnocchi dish and Riesling! - Italian Near Me - St. Catharines, Ontario

Food was good. Would have been 4 star but service was spotty. Drinks ordered at same time had to request 2 of them again as they didn't come at same time. Had to request one of them 3 times before it finally came. Asked for butter for bread and needed several requests to get it. Server never acknowledged she never got but it was someone learning tables. One main course had to be returned as it wasn't right. Nice ambience. Parking horrendous. Will try somewhere else next time! read more

One of the best pasta dishes I've ever tried!!! Great service and cozy atmosphere!! They also have really good pizza read more

The Twisted Pig - Bucatini Pesto - Italian Near Me - St. Catharines, Ontario

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Had a great family meal at the Twisted Pig lastnight. We celebrated a birthday for my young niece. The wait staff were super nice and very accommodating. The food was delicious. Everyone pigged out on the free bread and dip. We started with mussels in wine. The mussels were nice and big and the sauce was awesome. Our party ordered a bunch of stuff. Pizza done in a wood fired oven. And pasta vodka that was excellent. Oh did I mention they have Fairweather Beer? Oh ya! The staff even sang Happy Birthday when they brought my niece a chocolate tort. Would highly recommend a visit. read more

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Ventured here to get away from the amusement park midway of Niagara Falls to eat real food. We started with the Honey Garlic Brussels and they were magnificent. I'll be copy-catting that maple dijon aioli and working it into our home kitchen rotation. I had the Spaghetti and Meatballs and Thing 2 (the vegetarian) tried the LEMON Basil Risotto- emphasis on the Lemon. Service was good, the complimentary bread basket was soft and the Big Head Big Read was smooth. Low ceilings and dim yellow lighting to round off the Italian ambiance. Pictures of food get boring- check out the floor instead. *chefs kiss* read more

The Twisted Pig - a close up of a wooden floor - Italian Near Me - St. Catharines, Ontario

Food was fantastic! Had two caesar salads--delicious, especially with the bacon added. The vodka sauce with added homemade sausage--perfect. Spaghetti and meatballs also great! This was a recommendation to us as we are from out of town--great spot! read more

This place was so good. The staff is so nice & accommodating. The food was AMAZING, my cosmo was great and our waitress Amanda was the sweetest. Very attentive and so kind. I wish I had taken pictures of the food, but at least I got this cute picture of the ice cream with a cute piggy cookie. This place was worth the drive away from the Falls! read more

The Twisted Pig - Vanilla ice cream with a cute piggy cookie. - Italian Near Me - St. Catharines, Ontario

We were looking for a place to dine in the Niagara area. Pier was not open so it was time to try another place. The Twisted Pig is not far from Port Dalhousie. The restaurant has some indoor dining available, but much for the restaurant is under construction. Patio is available from the first floor (ground) and the top floor (you must request for it, because they default give you ground. Washrooms are located on the top floor so fair warning, if you're visiting with people who have accessibility issues, this might be a challenge. And as you take the stairs to the washroom you're welcomed by a magnificent chandelier. Washrooms are clean. We order the gnocchi, it was a bit soggy. The pesto pizza, it was good. We also ordered the margarita and the octopus and sausage. The octopus and sausage had very few bite size sausages and potatoes cooked just right. The octopus was one tentacle. It didnt have much content and was mostly a tomato sauce. Bit disappointing on presentation. And it was not very shareable. The table is served with a some bread and olive oil/balsamic vinegar. The overall experience was okay. With four dishes shared, at $100 it was priced okay. But I've also had some better italian places, but this place is not bad for what it tries to achieve which is causal dine italian. Still going to my Vittoria Trattoria in Ottawa for the real italian stuff. :) read more

My favourite restaurant in the Port Dalhousie area. Food is excellent, service is usually very good, but the lighting could be better. Bit pricey depending on what you get, but regardless you are guaranteed a good meal and a pleasant time here. read more

Very good restaurant. The owner is there all the time and hires great staff. Service is fantastic and their pizza is the best in St. Catharines in my opinion. Great wine list. Impressed. read more

Food was good, but service not so much. Our server set my drink down in the space between two tables. Half of it spilled on the table. And she charged us for it! Table was sticky all night. For being a nice place with $15 drinks... I was surprised the bartender and some service staff were in hoodies and toques. The food was alright, they brought out a desert for my mom's birthday but didn't ask... so it wasn't something she liked anyways. The music switched to some loud club dance music near the end of our meal (a girl from another table started dancing) which was definitely weird. Not really a spot for a nice family dinner celebrating something. read more

A-ma-zing Italian food!! We ordered the prosciutto burrata pizza and the mushroom truffle rigatoni and they were both top notch! Fast, friendly service with a nice and cozy ambiance! Will definitely be coming back! read more

Delicious food. Mussels were great. Pasta with wild mushrooms was chock full of porcinis, and the pasta was perfectly al dente. Excellent, friendly service. Nice patio. read more

Excellent menu, beautiful space and very friendly staff. Would recommend to anyone visiting Niagara.

My review includes both pros and cons regarding our meals. The pros were that the presentation of my spaghetti and meatballs dish was done very well. The meatballs were barely warm, but I gave them a forgivable free pass because I didn't want to take it back while they reheated the meatballs. The sauce however was on the above warm side which compensated for the room temperature meatballs. Both the sauce and the meatballs were very tasty and had great colour. But both were over-salted, not slightly but way over the top, unbearably so! That's the con part of the review. I despise the type of character that complains only to get a free meal, but I don't mind offering this restaurant personal feedback so they can use this experience, and chalk it up towards quality control. Let it be known, I have a high tolerance for salt and probably use too much on my meals. My wife gently expressed to our waitress the same sentiment because her meal was also overly salty, but she dismissed our salty experience saying she never finds the meals here to be too salty. That was disrespectful on her part and we felt it bluntly invalidated our concern. We took that with a grain of salt (pun intended) because she wasn't even aware she was doing it -- I still left an 18% tip. PS. I really think chefs should under-salt their dishes and leave the finished seasoning up to the paying customers -- they after all are the one's eating the dish. read more

While visiting Canada we stopped at twisted pig and it has a great location and looks very nice. The food took a long time and the service was decent. The pizza was probably the thinnest, floppiest and soggiest pizza I have ever had. Would not recommend the pizza. The other people I went with enjoyed their meals and would definitely recommend. read more

Discovered this place as we are new to the area. Patio was busy and I ordered takeout to bring home. I ordered the watermelon feta salad, twisted gnocchi 2.0 and the rigatoni funghi. The food was great, although for the price, would have expected a slightly bigger portion. The watermelon feta salad tasted great and we loved the rigatoni. To my surprise, the gnocchi was massive, compared to the ones you buy at the grocery store. I think the gnocchi was a bit too big, and would have preferred them to be about half the size. Either way, the food was great and hope to get a chance to dine in when things continue to open up. read more

I really wanted to love this place. Came by for a visit with a friend. Only two tables were spoken for in the restaurant both we two people. We opted to sit at the bar for some delicious oysters and cocktails. It took 15 minutes for our cocktails to be served. The server did not know how to prepare a simple Caesar. I ordered a dozen oysters on the half shell and expressed I would only like lemon, horseradish, Tabasco and Worcestershire, the server explained they do not come that way. Until she realizes she had everything needed right in front of her on the bar then there was no problem. The oysters are listed at PEI and they were fresh and delicious. No one working seemed to know what type they were though. As a restaurant with a lovely ambiance and seeking a higher price point for cocktails and food I would think the server would have basic knowledge of cocktails, would serve you within a reasonable time and would know what kind of oysters they are serving read more

This place is great. Got seated right away. Food was great. This place is also kid friendly. Only thing holding them back from a 5 star is parking. read more

Spent the afternoon July 13th in Port Dalhousie to explore what had been accomplished in the past couple of years. Cost us $9- to park at the main parking lot near the beach - surprise as used to be free. Hope they will provide seating on the pier and some sun coverage down the road. After walking the long pier and looking at the boats, we decided to get something to eat. Rejected the first restaurant we saw as it had a very small outdoor space with no overhead covering/umbrellas - the day was hot. The outdoor patio at the Twisted Pig beckoned with several umbrellas. Entered and was greeted immediately. The server then gestured to a poster for a QR code as she was walking us out - "just scan the QR code for our menu". We are seniors and that stopped us. Not that seniors can't be tech savvy but we and most of our friends are not. I said, Wait now. I don't have data and don't know how to QR scan. Don't you have menus? She replied that they have wifi and could also provide us with an iPad. On that note, we continued to our table. Found the graphics for the menu, very difficult to read, some of it was in red which I could barely decipher. We wanted to get a couple of drinks and appetizers. They do not have appetizers. They have Insalata - knew that was salad, pizza, pasta and mains. Everything was fairly pricey. Biggest problem was whoever wrote the menu up was shooting for upscale gourmet. There were some obscure names that I had to keep asking the waitress for definition and some I just gave up on. Being lactose intolerant, I was looking for what I could eat. Took a long time to find, having to keep scrolling and the two of us trying to read it. Heard two other tables with seniors complaining about the same thing. Finally decided on the Watermelon salad for me and Caesar for my husband. Server asked what we wanted to drink and I was only offered the 8 oz option for the wine. Found out later, there was a 5 oz size. Big difference in price. 8 oz is same cost as a whole bottle at LCBO. Also, very strange that they do not have Pinot Grigio as that is a go to for many. Opted for the server's suggestion which was good but I had never heard of. The tables were nice with large adjustable umbrellas. Nice seat cushions but nothing on the back. Fortunately, I had brought a jacket so had that to cushion my back. Otherwise, would have been too uncomfortable to stay. Watermelon salad was phenomenal ! My husband kept stealing the whipped feta off of my plate. His Caesar was quite good. The skies opened just as we were finishing and everyone had to make a dash for the lobby. Wind toppled some of the umbrellas and you could hear the breaking glass. Felt sorry for the servers dashing around retrieving cushions and trying to save glasses. So conclusion: Fabulous food. Prices make this a special occasion option only. They really need to consider producing some hard copy menus. They can be laminated for easy cleaning and durability. That would greatly reduce the stress which is really not what we are looking for at a meal out. And make the descriptions in plain language so we can understand and choose easily. read more

Enjoyed the food and service. We decided to finish off with a gelato which turned out atrocious. It had a spoonful of chopped fresh garlic in it!!!. Imagine finishing good food with the taste of pungent garlic in your mouth and breath. Of course they were apologetic and removed the item from the bill which was the right business decision, but it's going to take me rest of the evening to get rid of garlic from my experience. So avoid ordering gelato in garlic flavour. read more

The food was amazing. What else can I say. Super fresh and absolutely delicious. I was beyond impressed. Staff were friendly and attentive. Was my first visit but won't be my last. Well done Twisted pig! read more