Orda Restaurant

This place is great! Atmosphere is chill and cool but the staff is also really friendly. Food is delicious my favourite is the Polo and and Lamb Soup, you can tell making the customers happy is their main priority.

This is an interesting one. Halal: servers claim it is halal but no certificate anywhere to be seen (maybe should ask) and they served alcohol. So please do your own research. Pork is not served here. See pictures for menu Food taste: Good. Whatever I ordered tasted either good or decent Price: pricey. Parking: On street or municipal paid parking Seating area: indoors & terrace. Lots of seating inside & good decor Cleanliness: 5/10. The waiters were dressed in work clothes often stained. The table where we were seated needed a better cleaning. The washroom needed heavy scrubbing to come to an acceptable level. Overall: I love uyghur food. Its something different, tasteful & the noodles are epic. But the price is a show stopper. I know covid hit restaurants hard and I can understand their recovery. But uyghur food is notoriously expensive in the GTA( Sadly). Bottomline, if I really want to eat this type of food, Orda would not be my first choice. And I would need to see the halal certificate if I am to eat there

Fantastic experience, very unique flavors. I’m not familiar with Uyghur cuisine, but I now need it in my life Sampled several dishes, every single one was great. This is a meat (beef / lamb) heavy place, I don’t typically like lamb, but here I’ll eat it every time Dumplings Ox tail Short rib Some soup Lahman traditional noodles A must try

The service was very friendly and welcoming, for me it is one of the aspects that I pay attention to. Regarding the food, I can say that everything was wonderful, the meat is very well seasoned. The decor is beautiful and very original. A restaurant I want to go back to, for sure! Very good job ?

Some Uyghur clients of mine in Waterloo highly recommended this restaurant, so one Saturday evening we drove from Kitchener to try it out. When we arrived, we were asked if we had a reservation. We didn't, but although the dining room was pretty well completely full, they made an effort to squeeze in another little table for two for us. After having made an hour-long trip just to go there, this was something we greatly appreciated! Our server recommended that we try some lamb kebabs and steamed dumplings, so we ordered those. We must confess that lamb is our least favourite meat, but the lamb on these kebabs was the tenderest and most flavourful we've ever had! We could have had a whole meal of just those kebabs and been more than satisfied! Very highly recommended! The dumplings were also good, but not as good as those kebabs! For our main dish, we ordered a large Zeera Lahman to share. This dish features the traditional Uyghur hand-pulled noodles with stir-fried lamb & beef, onions, red and green chilies, and cumin. The amount of meat in the dish far outweighs anything we've had in other Uyghur restaurants. There's a large amount of red chilies that give the dish some heat, but not too much, especially if you don't actually eat them and take them out like we did. It's a wonderfully tasty blend of savoury and spice, and it's addictive! Even when we determined that we'd had enough, we kept grabbing just one more noodle to twirl around our fork and eat. And it's more than enough for 2 people. We ended up taking half of it home to enjoy again later. The prices are higher than we've experienced in other Uyghur restaurants, but you get what you pay for. Orda had more in terms of a nice atmosphere and in the quality and quantity of the food. The service was friendly and attentive. If you're looking for good ethnic food and a great dining experience, Orda is the place to go! We will definitely be going back again. It's more than worth the 2-hour round trip to get there!

Some Uyghur clients of mine in Waterloo highly recommended this restaurant, so one Saturday evening we drove all the way from Kitchener to try it out. When we arrived, we were asked if we had a reservation. We didn't, but although the dining room was pretty well completely full, they made an effort to squeeze in another little table for two for us. After having made an hour-long trip just to go there, this was something we really appreciated! Our server recommended that we try some lamb kebabs and steamed dumplings, so we ordered those. We must confess that lamb is our least favourite meat, but the lamb on these kebabs was the tenderest and most flavourful we've ever had! We could have had a whole meal of just those kebabs and been more than satisfied! Very highly recommended! The dumplings were also good (and very well presented!), but not as good as those kebabs! For our main dish, we ordered a large Zeera Lahman to share. This dish features the traditional Uyghur hand-pulled noodles with stir-fried lamb & beef, onions, red & green chilies, and cumin. The amount of meat in the dish far outweighs anything we've had in other Uyghur restaurants. There also a large amount of red chilies that gives the dish some heat, but not too much, especially if you don't actually eat them and take them out as we did. It's a wonderfully tasty blend of savoury and spice, and it's addictive! Even when we determined that we'd had enough, we kept grabbing just one more noodle to twirl around our fork and eat. And it's more than enough for 2 people. We ended up taking half of it home with us to enjoy again later. The prices are higher than we've experienced in other Uyghur restaurants, but you get what you pay for. Orda has more in terms of a nice atmosphere and in the quality and quantity of their food. The service was friendly and attentive. Actually, it was outstanding! If you're looking for good ethnic food and a great dining experience, Orda is the place to go! We will definitely be going back again to try some of their other dishes. It's more than worth the 2-hour round trip to get there!

Portions were generous. Nicely spiced. Unique dishes eg. Lamb stir fried in naan, tasty large dumplings, quick courteous service. Beautiful decor. Clean washrooms, hand sanitizer on the table, all servers were properly masked. Pleasure to discover a new Uyghur culture. Relaxing dining experience. Glad that it was halal, got to try everything :-).

If you want to try a unique and delicious cuisine that you probably have never heard about before, look no further than Orda Restaurant, which specializes in Uyghur cuisine. This blend of Chinese and Turkic flavors made for a wonderful culinary experience in Oakville by Lakeshore. We opted to dine in but there was a large patio set up for the summer. The table came with warm bagel pieces and butter, which was a nice touch, while we were deciding what to order from the digital menu. We tried the lamb kebobs as an appetizer and were delighted at the succulent and well seasoned fall-off-the-skewer meat. We would have ordered more but had to save room for the braised beef short ribs and hand pulled noodles that came with the Zeera Lahman dish. Portion sizes were enough for a family of 4 but we were quite happy to take home the delicious leftovers. Our server Nigara was phenomenal, helping us with the menu options and even providing us with a complimentary jug of yogurt drink (similar to an Indian sweet lassi) after apologizing for the kitchen being backed up. A special shout out to Richard as well who took care of us during dinner.