Wednesday March 27, 2024
Weekly update for Mar 29
- Insomnia Cookies might open this year in Ottawa. Cross your fingers.
- Biagio’s is still taking bookings for Easter dinner on Sunday, which features a choice of lamb, ham, or veal cannelloni mains. Reservations are available between 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm.
- All Saints is taking Brunch bookings for Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
- True Loaf Bread Company is open every day 7:00 am to 1:00 pm until end of business Saturday (March 30). After that, the bread company is closed for an Easter break until Wednesday April 3, reopening Thursday April 4. Hot Cross Buns will be available for purchase until April 13.
- If you love your whisky, check out the Scotch Talk at the Lounge on the last Wednesday of every month.
- Spend $25 or more at the Aurelius Easter event and receive a free 60ml bottle of Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar. The sale runs today through April 1.
- Biemond Upper Canada Creamery raises its own cows to make its own organic dairy products. If you can’t visit the farm, which is located in Iroquois ON, you can buy their cheese, cream top milk, and yogurt from the Beechwood Market Farm Store (online or in person Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm). 1805 Gaspe Ave in Manor Park.
- Jordan Pizzuti in Ottawa Life praises his neighbourhood coffee shop, Wise Town Cafe on Elgin Street, with all the subtlety of someone who is definitely not in any way angling for a free refill.
- Jade Monaghan and Ali Tejpar in Apartment 613’s Foodie Friday love Kathā’s modern take on Indian cuisine but view the cocktail menu as a standout.
- Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip has broken his years-long momo-less streak with the opening of Indo-Nepalese restaurant Everest Cuisine on Carling.
- Great minds think alike, because Peter Hum at the Ottawa Citizen also ate at Everest Cuisine where he fought his friends over the the chicken morsels in the Everest Sekuwa set.
- Hum has four suggestions for after-sundown Iftar dinners during Ramadan: Karahi Point, Khokha Eatery, Royal Rooster Shawarma, and Yemen Gate.
Ten Toes coffee's Somerset St. location combines coffee, wine, and laundry.
Laid-off employees of Stella Luna in Wellington West say they are still waiting for their severance and tip money.
- In this Q & A of CEO of the Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation, David Gourlay, the Ottawa Business Journal reveals that Gourlay loves the Barbie strawberry milkshakes at Zak’s Diner although he tries to pin that on his daughter.
