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29 January 2025
❤️ Hintonburg Public House is keeping it low key on Friday February 14 with the regular menu brunch offering, along with a few surprises. Reservations are recommended.
❤️ Here’s a list of the eating and drinking details of the Love and Delight Getaway Package at Moulin Wakefield Mill: Chocolate-covered strawberries, sparking wine in your room, a three-course Discover Meal at La Muse Restaurant and a gourmet breakfast for two. You’ll be staying one night in a Heritage standard room. The package costs $445 for two people and is available on Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout February.
And in other news
▪️Alas, Pearson Street Smash Burgers ’N Melts has had to delay its opening.
▪️It’s Ice Cream for Breakfast Day this Saturday. The Merry Dairy is covering all bases with delivery to your door, in-store dining (at 102 Fairmont St), and takeaway.
▪️Join North America’s Best Annual Celebration of National Gastronomy as 10 of Canada’s best chefs – including Ottawa’s own Lizardo Becerra of Raphaël Peruvian Cuisine – showcase their culinary prowess at the Canadian Culinary Championship. On Friday night, the chefs will battle it out in the Mystery Wine Competition. However, on Saturday the tension will really mount as the competitors will cook up a storm in the Black Box Competition at Collège La Cité and the Grand Finale Competition at Rogers Centre Ottawa. A portion of proceeds supports music education, sports opportunities and healthy food for Canadian youth through MusiCounts, Spirit North, Ottawa Network for Education (ONFE) and BGC Ottawa (formerly Boys and Girls Club).
▪️Meal Prep Ottawa is donating a portion of each sale of its DIXON Breakfast Burrito to CHEO. The $11.49 burrito, created by fitness expert Samuel Dixon, contains ‘tender pulled chicken, thick sliced bacon, roasted sweet potatoes, sautéed peppers and onions, fluffy scrambled eggs, cheddar, and yogurt chipotle crema’.
▪️Tourism Ottawa has put together a list of the Capital’s healthy eating options. Vegan and vegetarian: The Green Door, St. Elsewhere, Pure Kitchen, Astoria Bistro Botanique in Gatineau, Peace-Garden Vegetarian, and Govinda’s. Gluten Free: Wolf Down, La Dolce Vita, Fairouz Café, Thali, Little Jo Berry’s, and Strawberry Blonde. Mocktails: Union 613, Riviera, El Camino, Starling, Manor Lounge, The Belmont, and Thr33’s Co. Snack Bar. Healthy bites: Mad Radish, Paradise Poké, Freshii, Green Rebel, PI·RHO Grill, Chickpeas, and Juice Dudez.
▪️Of course as always, Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen is going in a different direction. He’s enjoying the cookies, cakes, and tarts created by Kokoro Bakeshop to celebrate the Year of the Snake.
▪️In Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia loved the comfort food of Greek Souvlaki House on Rivergate Way.