La Cantina Restaurant & Pizzeria
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Hours
Sun
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Tue
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Wed
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Thu
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Fri
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Sat
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Ratings and reviews
4.0
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Service
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CUISINES
Italian, Pizza
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
Meals
Lunch, Dinner, After-hours
features
Is this an Italian restaurant?
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CUISINES
Italian, Pizza
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
Meals
Lunch, Dinner, After-hours
FEATURES
Delivery, Takeout, Reservations, Seating, Highchairs Available, Wheelchair Accessible, Serves Alcohol, Full Bar, Accepts Credit Cards, Table Service
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4.0
355 reviews
Excellent
148
Very good
114
Average
40
Poor
27
Terrible
26
Gill808
Tasmania478 contributions
July 2021 • none
La Cantina is our go-to restaurant for the best, moderately priced, Italian cuisine in Launceston. Their drinks menu in particular presents great value and we could not fault the quality of the garlic pizza entree and pastas we ate. The seats are very comfortable, tables well spaced with white cloths, and ambience good - although the decor seems more Spanish than Italian. The background (Italian tenor) music was also a tad loud in our view. Staff are very pleasant and attentive, but mostly quite young and thus not able to add any appreciable knowledge about the dishes.
Written 16 July 2021
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mitchy_11
Sydney86 contributions
Mar 2021 • none
Average food, young and friendly wait staff with limited knowledge of what they serve but all understandable. Lower priced wines that are perfectly ok for the food and setting. All in all, if you are wanting some Italian cuisine at the moderate price point, this works.
Written 24 March 2021
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Bill E
Brisbane Region126 contributions
Feb 2021 • none
On our 2nd night in Launceston, we visited La Cantina by accident rather than design. My wife and I both had pizzas, and we agreed that they were the most “loaded” pizzas we had ever tried. Both pizzas were very tasty, with thin crusts, but they were too much for us to finish in spite of our best efforts.
On our first visit I had been debating whether to have pizza or the Veal Scallopini and so with absolute confidence we visited La Cantina again the evening before we left Launceston. I ordered Veal Scallopini, but then our helpful waitress protested that I still would not have tried their home-made pasta. At her suggestion, I had a “child’s serve” of Rigatoni as an entrée and Veal Scallopini for my main course. As expected, both were taste delights !!
If you are looking for a Traditional Italian restaurant (complete with white tablecloths) with great food and friendly helpful service, then La Cantina is the place for you in Launceston !!
Written 15 February 2021
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paul_pru_skittles
Singapore408 contributions
Jan 2020 • none
ate an early dinner here one evening while staying in Launceston - great service, lovely food and reasonable prices. lots of street parking nearby. we started with the small garlic pizza to share and then had the Tasmanian trout and veg (Pru) and the veal special - in a creamy mushroom sauce, with prawns and selected vegetables. would eat here again! too full to try their desserts..........
Written 9 February 2020
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Aussiechick18
New South Wales44 contributions
Mar 2021 • none
We enjoyed our meal at La Cantina tonight. We had to wait an hour for our meal but well worth the wait. We were booked for 7pm. The pasta was on special of the day and extra hot and tasty. Whilst I had the veal dish (15) with mushrooms, parsley, garlic in creamy sauce with fresh veggies carrots, zucchini and small potatoes. Another family arrived and I said the food is worth waiting for. The lady who was a local said she usually arrives early around 5.30 but had to work later and usually it’s only a 10 minute wait for meals.
Written 23 March 2021
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Mixedtraveller
Hobart850 contributions
Aug 2020 • none
Fantastic food and service. We have never been before and thought we would try it. It was very busy. The service was great and the food was delicious. 2 pizzas and the veal with mushrooms was delicious. Salad lovely and fresh too. The service supervisor was extra helpful as our child was a bit sick and she paid extra attention to get him fed and drinks quickly and Check on how he was. Very good all round and will definitely return!
Written 15 August 2020
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S G
Adelaide21 contributions
Dec 2021 • couples
The most disappointing restaurant in Tasmania.
We were visited only once by a waitress who took our order, and never came back in the hour and a half we were at the restaurant, too bad if we wanted another drink, which we did.
We were dished up a salad with cherry tomatoes that looked like prunes and very bitter lettuce. Having tasted just one lettuce leaf the rest of the salad remained untouched. It was eventually taken away, without a comment, who takes a full salad bowl away without questions?
And to top it off we were charged for large pizzas, yet only ordered small, I challenged the bill, but the junior staff member on the till refused to adjust it, despite the fact it was the waitress’s error!! I was not going to make a scene, it’s stressful enough in these covid times.
Please find somewhere else to dine, where you get fresh food and charged correctly and you dont get deceptively billed. Launceston has some great establishments with fresh food and attentive staff, who listen and bill honestly, hit one-of those, and give this place a wide birth.
Written 29 December 2021
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Peter S
Launceston25 contributions
Apr 2021 • family
Second time to this restaurant and it didn't disappoint. The service was great and the food delicious, nice cozy atmosphere made you instantly feel so relaxed.
Highly recommend this for those who love Italian cuisine 🙂🙂
Written 26 April 2021
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john s
20 contributions
Oct 2022 • couples
La Cantina was recommended by friends. We took a chance, arrived without a booking, quite busy but the waitress kindly fitted us in. She took our order of a small herb pizza and for mains a ravioli and a spaghetti bolognese.
The herb pizza arrived soon after as did our drinks. We then had a lengthy wait for our mains which arrived with an apology for the wait.
The food was excellent, both our dishes served hot and were delicious.
We had wanted desert but no one looked like coming near us, so for at least 10 minutes my wife tried to flag down two waitresses as they moved around the room clearing and resetting tables. In the end we gave up. I paid the bill telling the young lady we would have liked desert but as table setting was an obvious priority over customers we would not be returning. A shame about the service as the food was so good.
Written 5 October 2022
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Jenny E
29 contributions
Aug 2020 • friends
Sunday night dinner for four was delicious. Veal scallopine with mushrooms was fresh, tasty and satisfying. Steak dish was perfectly cooked. Meat lovers pizza was tasty and fresh. Chicken with scampi was great. Service was good. This restaurant never fails to deliver good food at a reasonable price.
Written 11 August 2020
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Bill C
Sydney86 contributions
Mar 2021 • none
An excellent Italian restaurant and if you don’t book ahead of time then be prepared not to be able to get a table. The service was some of the best we have had anywhere, even to the point of the waitresses asking if we were ready for the order for our mains to be sent to the kitchen after we had finished our starters. The quality of the food was very good and the cost was quite reasonable based on Tasmanian prices that we had experienced in a number of other restaurants. We would certainly go back if we were in Launceston again in the future.
Written 11 April 2021
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Glenn R
Canberra19 contributions
July 2021 • none
Launceston is a funny place to try and work out busy restaurant times, whether bookings are required etc so on Sunday night we had guests in town and thought Italian might be nice. La Cantina was open so we booked a table for 4 and off we went. A review is about being perfectly honest so I must say service at the beginning was not great and we had to gain staffs attention twice for menus and service but that was where the negatives end. We ordered the garlic bread pizza for entree and then 2 of us felt like a good old fashion Fettuccine Carbonara and the other 2 opted for the Rigatoni con Gamberi. The garlic pizza hit the spot like a well thrown dart and once finished, the pasta followed a short time later. This is where the OMG (Oh My God) factor came in. The first mouthful of homemade Carbonara left me speechless and wondering how I had not eaten this delight in so long. I was then offered a fork full of the Rigatoni and wanted to decline, based on the heavenly happenings on my tastebuds but tried it. Good move, the perfect blend of garlic, white wine and prawns was probably even more delicious if that was possible. Meals were a perfect size and we followed it up with desert, I could have been a pig and ordered one of everything but we all tried something different and all were as good as each other. This is the 2nd time we have tried La Cantina since moving to Launceston in April and based on both experiences, will do so many more times to come. I need to add that once the initial service issue was overcome, the staff were beautiful and friendly, knowledgeable and prompt and we had a wonderful experience.
Written 11 July 2021
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bhtripadv
Melbourne183 contributions
Feb 2021 • none
On Sunday night at 7.30 we were lucky to get a table, they needed to re-set for us as someone had just left. Very happy with the food, service and prices. As we walked to our table I saw garlic prawns being served to another guest and did not really need to look a the menu after that. Do order the garlic pizza starter, excellent. Their house wine is Italian and great value.
Written 28 February 2021
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rodelle2018
Perth15 contributions
Dec 2022 • none
We thought we’d give this place a go. Quite high prices but reviews of food looked positive, and we are always happy to pay for quality. We had seen that it was byo with $6 corkage per bottle, so we brought our own bottle of red. When the waitress came to the table I said we had our own bottle, she said the corkage was $10 per bottle. I politely pointed out on the menu where it stated $6 corkage. The waitress said she’d need to check this with the chef as the price had recently increased. The waitress returned and said the chef said we had to pay $10, and she passed us another menu. We were really disappointed with the Chef’s poor customer service and lack of goodwill. It wasn’t about the money for us, it was the principle. We were not going to spend our money in a place where the chef clearly did not value the customers. We left the restaurant and went down the road to Osteria’s Italian. The service was excellent, food delicious and at least 25% cheaper! We now thank the Chef at La Cantina for allowing us to leave because of a $4 difference in corkage.
Written 29 December 2022
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Margaret C
3 contributions
Feb 2023 • none
The food was mediocre. We asked for a little bit of chilli flakes to put on our food and was told that we would be charged $2 for it. $2 is not much when you are spending $150 for 2 for dinner but really is it worth charging $2. I don’t think so.
Written 11 February 2023
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