There are now more restaurants in Ottawa than before the pandemic, but optimism might be subsiding as customers tighten their wallets in a high-inflation, high-interest economic environment.
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After 16 years in business, La Porto A Casa, a much-loved Italian restaurant in Barrhaven, will shut March 20 following a year of enduring the pandemic’s hard knocks.
“If the past year had not happened, I would not be writing this,” co-owner Caroline Rossi wrote in the restaurant’s farewell message, posted Wednesday on Facebook.
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“The past year has definitely taken its toll on us and so with our lease coming up for renewal, we decided that we just need a break,” she wrote. The post does not say what Rossi and her husband Ozzie, La Porto A Casa’s chef and co-owner, plan for the future.