Dumpling Bliss at 111 Cooper St (1stEleven Residence) is now open with an ample menu of dumplings plus faves like wontons, braised beef, and crispy fried chicken.
I Heart Beer & Taco Festival Tour lands at the EY Centre Friday night and Saturday March 1. Take note: Saturday night is nearly sold out.
La Vida Local Food + Wine Tours has announced its summer 2025 programming and wine loveres will be spoilt for choice. Choose from the East Ottawa Wine Tour, the West Carleton Wine, Spirits & Cider Tour, and the Ottawa Cider Tour.
(Limited) tickets are on sale for this year’s Le Cordon Bleu Student Soirée, where you’ll sample canapés produced by intermediate cuisine students. Friday March 14.
Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip has found a Mediterranean-style seafood restaurant that has no menu. Patrons rock up to the counter, choose their fish, and it’s cooked then and there. Charnalia says of Rayan Poissonnerie & Restaurant in Orléans, the calamari was ‘nothing short of perfection’.
Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen interviews SuzyQ doughnut founder and owner Susan Hamer about her successful 13 year-old business. Harmer began her career selling doughnuts to her fellow Canada Post workers.
This Saturday, the first 100 people at each SuzyQ shop – 1015 Wellington St W., 2015 Robertson Road, and 1721 St Laurent Boulevard – will receive a free doughnut. Note that they all open at 8:00 am.
The Ottawa Citizen team put an OTTAWAN-worthy question in the paper’s questionaire to local provincial election candidates: What’s your favourite restaurant and why?
(There are 11 ridings and four candidates each, so we’re not going to print the list. Click through to read the answers. Yes, they were asked about transit, health care and housing, too.)