Kitchesippi Beer kicks off the 2024 Patio season with a Beer Garden Launch Party with live music, fresh beer, and special Sangria. Food trucks Ad Mare and Le’s Fusion Kitchen will serve up seafood, Vietnamese, and Thai treats.
altgrocery.ca is a nation-wide list of independent, local grocery stores when you want to shop outside of the Big Five supermarkets. The Ottawa list is pretty good, and there’s a form you can complete to tell them about grocery options in your neighbourhood.
The Knifewear Spring Garage Sale is on until May 20. Visit the Bank St. store for the latest in Japanese knives.
Animated Coffee is closing after 10 years. All stock on the website is on sale, including coffee, brewing gear, and merch.
Meatings’ Customer Appreciation Pig Roast (Friday May 17 from 1:30 am to 2:00 pm) is also a nod to their supplier, Lavergne Western Beef. The event is at Lavergne’s headquarters, 3971 Navan Road in Navan.
National Caesar Day is tomorrow (Thursday May 16) but Moose McGuires Hunt Club has been celebrating all week with special cocktails. Receive a free Smirnoff bucket had or sunglasses with every Ceasar purchase. 3320 McCarthy Road, K1V 0X3
🍕 Colonnade Pizza: ‘Cheese, plus nostalgia, were the best things going for our three Colonnade pizzas.’
🍕 KS On the Keys: ‘What was great, though, was KS’s coconut cream pie.’
🍕 Pizza Nerds: ‘The pizzeria strives for quality, variety and imagination with 16 pies at an appealing price point.’
🍕 Tangerine Pizza: Describing the ‘Tangerine Pizza’, ‘All of its ingredients, and especially the zesty tomato sauce, sang.’
🍕 Tennessy Willems: ‘The wild boar pizza was a genius-level savoury-sweet-herby mix of local wild boar sausage, caramelized apple, sage pesto and two-year-old cheddar that should have a day named after it at City Hall.’
Meanwhile, Vittorio’s Pizza House in Sandy Hill was recognized as one of the top 20 deep-dish pizzas in the world at the World Pizza Expo in Las Vegas. Chef/owner Vittorio Colaiacovo says he added pizza to his reptoire – one year ago – after his bed and breakfast business struggled after COVID.