Citro Italian Restaurant

It’s a little over priced for what you get. The food was good. I ordered a pizza, other people got pasta and the steak. All were considered pretty good but the serving sizes were just almost not enough.
The interior is nothing special, dark, no character. The service was alright. Forgettable to be honest.
Comparing to grazie. There’s no comparison. You get better service, food (and more) at a lower price.

Excellent homemade pastas.
Service was friendly and solicitous.
Visiting from the states with a large group. Hits-​gnocchi, linguine frutti di mare; Misses-​none. Can’t wait to return.

I am only taking off one star due to the parking situation behind the premise.
When we visited the restaurant for dinner at 6:00pm on a Saturday they were 3 cars already parked in the designated parking space for Citro at the back of the building, but there was only one table occupied with patrons inside.
Other than that, the overall experience was great.
Clean tables, nice quiet, cozy ambiance. Respectful, friendly waitress. Food was served in a timely manner. We tried the spaghetti with chicken meatballs, beef ravioli and the Garlic bread w cheese as appetizer.
All were great choices!
Recommend it and will go again for good food.

Was there for dinner. Food is amazing !!! The only downside is very dirty windows… please clean et … Will back again for sure

LOVE this place :) gnocchi is great, bruschetta is great, calamari is great, everything is great! It’s quite a quaint little place but the food is perfect. Only downside is when there’s other groups it’s hard to have quiet if you go only as a group of two, but usually very quiet :) been there three times and will return!

We had my son’s confirmation luncheon at Citro today. As usually the service was great and Johnny wowed us with a spectacular meal.
This place is a family favourite of ours and we have had several large dinners there. Thank you Johnny! Can’t wait to come back:).

I always get my pizzas from Citro. The vegetarian Pulita is so good.
Everything made from scratch, fresh ingredients and always tasty
Supporting a local restaurant, which is not a chain or a mall is important to me.
So if you live in Richmond Hill Old Village; take a walk up there or use their parking just behind the restaurant!

Overview: Good Italian food, nice service, average portions
Visited Citro on a Thursday evening. Staff were very accommodating which was appreciated. Small place. Ordered the bruschetta, zucchini fritta, and zucchini and spinach soup (special) as appetizers. Both the bruschetta and zucchini fritta were very good. The fritta came with a nice tangy marinara sauce. The soup I would not order again, bit oily for my taste but the portion you get us worth the price of a soup! As a group we ordered two types of gnocchi, a pizza, and bolognese. All were good. Their espresso is also very good. Good flavour. Would come back here again should I get the itch for Italian.

We just had a lovely dinner at Citro restaurant. The gnocchi are home made and delicious. The veal shank perfect on this cold Fall night. We highly recommend you visit this neighbourhood gem.

I have said this before, Chef Johnny is arguably the most attentive to detail I have encountered in years. Having recently returned to being a vegetarian, I had spoken to him when making my reservation and he assured me that he could pretty much prepare anything to suite my taste.
Chef Johnny, DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!
Our salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and goat cheese was perfect and fresh with a house made balsamic drizzled dressing. I had order a linguini a la putanesca, one of my favorite Italian dishes and my wife had the calves liver. when compared to some other high-​end Italian restaurants we have frequented in the past, Citro is by far and away better. The ambiance and regularly changing artwork make it a wonderful place to enjoy your evening. Our meals were outstanding. It is rare to have a meal whereby you find the food is perfectly balanced and layered. Neither requiring salt nor pepper, you find yourself savoring every mouthful and wishing your dish did not end. The portions are GREAT because they are closer to Euro than American, meaning you don’t feel bloated but you do feel satiated.
We finished with espresso, tea and the house made mixed berry pie with gelato. I don’t know about you all, but I like, no LOVE, to taste my food and not have it masked in sweet or salt. This pie was unseated and allowed the berry flavors to marry with the flakey pie crust (all house made). An end to a perfect meal.
Thank you Chef Johnny!

I was surprised by this place. I caught them at a good time when I decided to drop in. It was quiet and not too busy which means there is less room for lower quality food.
I ordered the gnocchi and i had the waitress baffled. Sweet girl but she’s got to learn a lot real fast if she is going to work in an Italian restaurant. Service was fast and attentive. She did a great job, I tipped her well for her effort.
As for the Gnocchi, I always love to see freshly made gnocchi, however it was a TAD underdone, but sauce made up for it and was a great dish. However, the star here to my surprise was the vegetables you really got to taste their flavors.
I love places like this. These are places that turn into the little hidden secret of cities and I LOVE finding them. Definitely going to bring my wife here later on this month.

This is a small family owned restaurant. Johnny who is the owner, chef as well as the guy who picked up my numerous calls about my reservation was very genuine and friendly. When the restaurant was too hot and he had to jump up on a chair to fix the fan and lights — he was very kind enough to do so. We felt very welcoming.
Food wise — it is pretty good, I would strongly suggest the calamari, braised beef and the steak. Steak came out too over-​cooked and we sent it back with no problems. I ordered the seafood pasta and requested to change the tomato sauce into creamy Alfredo but got refused to. A bit disappointed there and the seafood was not up to par, shrimps were not fresh and very small like frozen ones. So don’t go for the seafood pasta.
Overall, service was quick and it is a pleasant experience but I would not go back.

Being a Manhattanite, it’s sometimes easy to forget how spoiled we are when comes to good restaurants. But since I am visiting family at Markham, I had to adjust my expectation. I would give Citro a 3.5 star:
Pro:
+ we had three dessert dishes, all pretty good (Tiramisu tasteful but a bit too soft, poached pear with gelato-​good pear but gelato was actually not very impressive)
+ the short rib was the best – good taste and tenderness, the gnocchi has good taste but a bit too soft, seafood linguine was good, lobster Ravioli was a bit big and salty
+ the espresso was good
Con:
— the appetizers were pretty week (spinach broccoli cream soup, crab cake, and cucumber tomato salad)
— no signature bread?!
— ambiance was pretty minimum though comfortable… I wouldn’t count against it
— the wait service was a bit underwhelmed.
Overall, I liked the experience. It’s a wall in hole place, but I like to help a restaurant with good food to succeed, especially when it’s in a place where we don’t expect decent Italian place.

Walked into this restaurant with high expectation especially after reading all the good reviews about it from Unilocal.But sadly, I was pretty disappointed not only about the quality of the food but also the dining atmosphere and the experience.
Ordered spinach soup and seafood soup for appetizer. The spinach soup was watery and the taste was not up to par. The seafood soup was a little bit better than the spinach soup but the soup is mostly consist of over cooked seafood chunks.
I was expecting the atmosphere of this restaurant to be a little bit more up scale with the price like this. Very disappointed with their table setting and décor. Tables look like those typical lunch room tables. They should at least consider using table cloths to cover them up. The waiter was polite and well dressed in uniform, however he messed up our order and gave us a different pasta.
I will not recommend this place and will not come again.

(3.5 stars) upon entering this cozy restaurant, I knew we were in for a treat. They are a bit short-​staffed, so the service was quite slow. Be wary of this especially on weekends. However, the food met my expectations. I got the grilled calamari and lamb sausage farafaelle, which were both delicious. the halved olives were my favourite part of the pasta, as they were not too sour. Aside from slow service, the food quality was above par. Would come again on a less busy occasion.

This is my favorite restaurant! Don’t judge it by its small size! It’s cozy and the servers are always fantastic! The room is always clean and I love the open concept! You can see the chef cooking your meal and it always arrives at your table hot and freshly done.
Their pastas are always a great texture, not to hard and definitely not mushy. And their sauces are the best I’ve ever tasted short of actually visiting Italy. If you want delicious Italian food that can still surprise your taste buds, this is the place to go!
My personal favorite dish is the penne vodka! Well priced, great portion sizes and just so delicious!!! And after dinner, you can take a stroll down the main street :)

Okay, so the party of roughly 14 probably contributed to the long waiting time, but my friends and I were collectively ready to pass out when our food was finally served.
I ordered the dinner special of strozzapretti with turkey ragu. It was actually an elongated and chewy type of hand-​rolled pasta — and I loved the texture. The pasta sauce, however, was underwhelming. could be from a canned product for all I know. The turkey was sparse but with the parmesan cheese the dish tasted okay overall.
I tried my friend’s linguine with seafood in red wine sauce — it was a little too sour for my taste so I actually liked my own dish better. My other friend’s risotto was made with lots of ‘shrooms and while the mushroom taste was VERY strong, the risotto was done deliciously. If I ever return to the area, that would probably be my dish to order.
Also, there’s a cake cutting fee of $ 2/​person if you ever go there for someone’s birthday: P

I wasn’t terribly blown away by this place. Came to celebrate a friend’s dinner with a large group of 15+ people. The restaurant is pretty small and there is limited parking space behind the restaurant so you may need to park in the lot across the street. I ordered off the special menu and got the strozzapreti (a twisty kind of pasta) with turkey ragu and spinach ($ 16). The dish was okay overall, but nothing amazing. I liked the texture of the pasta, which was a little bit firm/​al dente. The sauce just tasted like regular tomato sauce though and there wasn’t really that much turkey.
We experienced some difficulty when it came to splitting our bill, since the waitress at first said we had to keep everything on one bill. Afterwards she wrote up a bill for a few of us who wanted to leave early, but miscalculated a few things and overcharged us. The bill was just written by hand and was kind of unclear, so make sure you check for any human errors.
We brought a birthday cake and the staff was kind enough to help us cut and serve it. However, keep in mind that they do charge a cake cutting fee which is $ 2 and based on the number of people sitting at the table/​number of slices cut.

We went to this restaurant because we were in the area and there were raving Unilocal reviews.
BIG MISTAKE
This restaurant won’t last much longer — we were the only ones in the restaurant during dinner; which I now understand why.
Appetizers — I ordered the caprese salad which was $ 14. Way too overpriced for slices of hot house tomatoes and store bought stale mozzarella. Nothing about this was appetizing. My father ordered the mushroom soup and enjoyed it.
Mains — he has the liver which he said was ok. The meat was tougher than it should have been and the gravy was way too salty. I had the chicken piccata which was rubbery (had to work quite hard to cut it) and again was covered in a salty flavorless sauce. The main dishes were not worth their $ 24 and $ 22 price tags.
Stay away if you are in the area. You are better to go to one of the big box restaurants down the street.

Gem in the rough!
Amazing butternut squash soup!
Veggie pizza & pene a la vodka with bacon is to die for!
You definitely have to visit!
They even have their own hot sauce! Ask for it for sure!!!