Weekly update for May 1

1 May 2024

•  Red Apron is opening the patio this Thursday May 2. This year’s patio lunch menu features Lobster and Shrimp Rolls between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm, Wednesdays through Saturdays. 410 Gladstone Ave.
•  Whiprsnapr will mark May the 4th Star Wars Day with four – yes, four – special new beers, a pizza pop-up, and movies screening all day. Noon to 9:00 pm at 14 Bexley Pl Unit 106 K2H 8W2.
•  The Mother’s Day brunch at Metcalfe Hotel’s Cocotte Bistro has two courses plus these tantalizing extras: a Breakfast Buffet of Québec and Ontario cheeses and pastries, and a Sweet Table. $53 per person.
•  Impress your Mother Figure by cooking her a seven course feast at home, complete with cocktail and wine. The NeXT Mother’s Day Dinner @ Home also comes with a video explaining how to prepare everything for the woman of the hour. $89 per person. Available May 11 or 12.
•  The movement to boycott Loblaw’s stores for the month of May in protest of high grocery prices begins today.
•  Terrasse du Square in Chelsea opens today. The Terrasse has a weekly market, film nights, and food includeing Korean, Mexican, Vietnamese and other dishes, mocktails and cocktails, soft-swirl ice cream and irresistible maple doughnuts.
•  After his former restaurant was evicted during COVID from a government building in Gatineau, Mohamad El Merhabik has launched a new shawarma café in Wellington West, Shawarma Al Mouna.
•  Amanda Armstrong in Apt 613 is loving vegan resto St Elsewhere in Chinatown. News to us is St Elsewhere is the new project of the owners of Thr33’s Co. Snack Bar. Ah – we just got the TV show references.
•  Faces magazine profiles the SFR Distillery and Lounge near the Kanata Costco, which has opened a cute and relaxing lounge next to the distillery.
•  Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip thinks Ng’s Cuisine in Nepean has some of the best chinese food in Ottawa. The old school, plastic-covered table vibe matched the old school price of $55 for dim sum.