Meatings Barbecue - Ottawa

My guests raved about the food at our recent gathering. Especially the brisket and beans. Our order was delivered promptly, arrived hot and all of it was delicious.

We ordered a full thanksgiving dinner from Meatings and they blew us all away!! It was honestly the best thanksgiving dinner I’ve ever had. The turkey was UNREAL, the stuffing was amazing, and the veggies fantastic. Such an easy process from the minute we ordered, to delivery, to eating!! I would recommend everyone place an order for their next holiday meal. If you want to have a stress free experience and amazing food, this is the place to order! 10/10.

Meatings really came through for our wedding day with incredible food and such attentive service. The servers made sure to come to us first with the passed appetizers and saved us a few when we were busy talking. Everyone raved about how good the food was, and we were nice and full and ready to drink and party after dinner! Mat also went above and beyond and helped us cut and serve our cake which was so nice. Really appreciate everything!! Highly recommend. Also the tasting was so fun before the wedding.

Avoid Meatings if you’re looking for a wedding caterer for a smaller event! I had a bad experience in communications with Meatings to book them for my cocktail-style wedding (100 people) in 2023. They were very slow to respond to questions, and communication was very poor (required prompting multiple times, poor grammar, difficult to understand emails). I was very understanding, as wedding season is a busy one, but when they out of the blue cancelled our late night snack two months out from our wedding date, it was extremely stressful. I was sent into a scramble trying to find someone else at the last minute to fill in. I’d just like to warn future couples looking for a wedding caterer that Meatings was very unreliable and difficult to communicate with. I wonder if my event had been bigger (more money for them), that I might have been treated differently. I ended up booking another very reliable catering service and dropped Meatings altogether, because I had no idea if they would come through or not in the end.Edit: in their response, Meatings says they will call me that day to “rectify” the situation. They have not called or reached out in any way, and it’s been over a week since their response was published.

Unfortunately, Meatings is no longer open at their Canotek location. Staff at Broadhead Brewing have told me that Meatings now only has a small outlet in Richcraft Sensplex with a very limited menu, and Broadhead itself has a limited menu which does not include brisket, pulled pork or ribs. They do have some good food offerings at Broadhead, for sure, but it's not the Meatings menu that we love!Hopefully, at some point, we'll be able to get the great smoked brisket and pulled pork from Meatings again! It's the best in Ottawa. (The 4 Stars is only because we can't get their brisket and pulled pork. The food and service itself has always been 5 stars!