☀️ High 33° Low 13° and sunny ☀️ 5:16 am 🌛 8:47 pm In Today’s Edition → Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth resigns as OCDSB trustee → Resto reviews of Thilaks and secret door Tredici, craft breweries map update →Deals of the Day on linen homewares from Cedar and Vine bedroom furniture from Silk and Snow |
WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
🍻 It's NEIPA Day and there's going to be a party at Broadhead Brewery (as well as tacos, live music and that summer fave, cornhole). 🏳️🌈 All month, Hintonburg Public House is donating 30% of sales of its Pride Punch to LetsStopAIDS. 🇮🇹 Starting at 5:00 pm today the streets of little Italy will be closed to vehicles but open to patios, pedestrians, and performers in honour of Ottawa Italian Festival. 🧺 Beechwood Market returns to New Edinburgh Park this Saturday, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Expect more than 20 vendors, live music, and a kids' play area at the dog-friendly venue. 🍻 Starting Friday, Orléans Craft Beer Festival is the place to sample a wide range of craft beer, wines, spirits, and great food. 🍝 THE OTTAWAN knows that Ottawa eaters love nothing more than secret restos hidden behind closed doors. Sofia Misenheimer in the Ottawa Citizen says that if you visit Guillotine Street Food on Clarence Street, you’ll find a bookcase. Pull it open, and you're led downstairs to the goth Italian joint Tredici, with a soundtrack by the likes of the Cure and Depeche Mode. 🥣 At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia says ‘You know it’ll be good when the food is brought out on a banana leaf’. He also says of Sri-Lankan cuisine Thilaks, at $15, ‘[f]or the size, quality, and sheer depth of flavour, it’s one of the better deals we’ve found anywhere in the city—strip mall or otherwise’. 🍸 We’ve mentioned Stolen Goods cocktail bar many times in the Dining and Drinking Update. Edible Ottawa has a new overview. 🥘 Chef Lizardo Becerra is opening his new resto, Barrio, in the old ByWard Market Pure Kitchen location, promising a ‘South American beat’. Becerra also owns Raphaël Peruvian Cuisine on Elgin Street. THE OTTAWAN is definitely looking forward to this one as we were thrilled by Becerra’s cooking at the Canadian Culinary Awards last February. Barrio is hiring, by the way. 🍺 The commenters are not very impressed with this story in the Globe and Mail: ‘This old-Ottawa pub is scoring big with a new generation of fans’. You’ll be surprised to learn that the ‘old-Ottawa’ pub is The Senate in Hintonburg, established way back in the year-of-our-Lord 2021. Don’t get us wrong, The Senate is a fine sports pub. It’s just that real old-school Ottawa pubs would be places like the Carleton Tavern, the Laff, or the Prescott to name three. 🍕The Grand Pizzeria in ByWard Market is launching location number two in the newly renovated pavillion at Westboro Beach. Opening day will be late summer or early autumn in what we expect to be a very beautiful location. We did not know previously that the same people who own the Grand also own Zak’s Diner, Metropolitain Brasserie, and Starling Restaurant. 🥙 Ottawa Tourism is apparently looking for a fight as they have published a list of ‘The best shawarma places in Ottawa’. Making the cut are: Shawarma Station, Just Eat Shawarma & Poutine, The Garlic King, Shawarma Al Mouna, Laheeb Grill & Shawarma, Shawarma Palace, Jasmine Bakery, and Shawarma Garlic & Onion. Meanwhile, at last Sunday’s Shawarma Festival, a panel comprised of Stefan Keyes from CTV, Orléans South-Navan ward councillor Catherine Kitts, food critic Mat Beausoleil, and Night Mayor Mathieu Grondin gave first place to Shawarma Palace, second place to Caspers, and third to Boustan. ☕ Orléans coffee shop Art of Bean will close June 21. 📍 Our Where to drink craft beer in Ottawa and Gatineau map has been updated: Evergreen Brewing is now known as Pistols Brewery, and we’ve added Bridge Masters Brewing in Perth, Brauwerk Hoffman in Rockland, and Simple Grain Brewery in Cumberland. That last one has truly strange and unreliable hours, so check first before your road trip.
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NUMBER - $10.8 billion
- – The predicted gap in funds to pay for aging drinking water, transportation, and solid waste infrastructure over the next ten years according to a report presented at the City’s finance and corporate services committee.
- Olivia Grandy in Capital Current
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SPORTS - ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 4 – Brockton Rox 17 last night
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Thursday, June 5 at 10:00 am Presentation - Planning, Building and Development Services Department - Transportation Master Plan – Rural Lens – Verbal Update Engineer’s Report Wilson-Cowan Municipal Drain Amendment
Rural Community-Building Grant Program – Grant Application Review Street Closure - Road Allowance between Lots 10 and 11, Concession 4, Geographic Township of Torbolton, former Township of West Carleton Referral - Municipal Support Resolution for the South March BESS Project
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🦉 Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth has resigned her position. Kaplan-Myrth says the board is ‘entrenched in internal toxicity’ and ‘driven by external forces with a goal to undo human rights and social justice work’ and that the code of conduct has been ‘weaponized’ against her. – Guy Quenneville at CBC ↪ ‘Why I resigned as a trustee from the OCDSB’ – Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth in the Ottawa Citizen
🏅 Nominations for the Order of Ottawa have opened. Up to 15 residents will received the award, which recognizes ‘those who have made significant contributions through their professional endeavours, to life in the city in any of the following areas: arts and culture, business, philanthropy, health care, education, public service, labour, communications and media, science, sports and entertainment, and other fields that benefit Ottawa’.
Nominations will be accepted until September 3 on the Order webpage. – City of Ottawa
💸 Capital ward councillor Shawn Menard wants a referendum over Lansdowne 2.0. Menard suggests having the referendum during the 2026 civic election. As it is right now, the City will tender bids for building a new north stand for the stadium and replacing the arena with a smaller one. The City has not asked for nor received quotes on how much it would cost to renovate the existing stadium and arena. – Kate Porter at CBC
🚨 An Ottawa Police Service constable has been demoted from First Class to Second Class for 14 months as punishment for being convicted of drunk driving. Under the Police Service Act, Constable Serge Fortin was dinged for ‘one count of being convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code’ and ‘undermining the public trust’. Fortin was stopped at an Ontario Provincial Police checkpoint in 2024. – Ottawa Citizen |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘Would a Bank Street subway be a good idea?’ 65% Yes 21% No 12% Now we’re just making up O Train routes? Count me out. 1% I have a better idea
Reader, the 1% did not tell us what the better ideas would be.
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✳️ Means change from previous edition WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ✳️ Italian Week Ottawa officially opens with the flag raising at City Hall (9:00 am - 9:30 am) Songs from the Shed's noontime concerts are back for another summer. Experience special activities as the Canadian Museum of Nature marks both World Environment Day and Ocean Week Canada. Today only, your regular admission will include the chance to paint an ocean mural with Ojibwe-Ukrainian artist Stephanie Banij, test water samples, play some trivia, program a mini robot, and explore ocean careers. Volleyball Nations League - Women continues at TD Place Arena. Local musician Curtis Jones launches his new album Homemade at Art House, with guests PHASEZ and Adam Fortais. Everyone is welcome to the Women’s Monthly comedy show at Yuk Yuk's. Visionary Canadian Alternative-Pop Artist, Elena Erin plays The Rainbow Bistroin support of her second album Roaring 20s. de Montigny Contemporary Gallery and Katya Berezovskaia present After Hours, a new quarterly event for young art collectors. Saunders Farm gets into the night market scene with not one but two evenings of shopping, eating, and live entertainment. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7893 Bleeks Road. 🚗 Road Trip: The Notes for Nature II concert at Almonte Town Hall will support the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust. Images Unlimited gallery presents a screening of Donnie Darko. Do some shopping at Urban Art Collective's Hintonburg Night Market ByTowne Cinema: Algiers, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Friendship Mayfair Theatre: Black Bag, A Nice Indian Boy, The Rules of Attraction
Gigs Comedy Night. Pour Boy Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs. Bronson Centre Days on Parade, Salmon Ella, Desert Island Big Band. House of TARG Open Mic. Stray Dog Brewing Co.
FRIDAY From the Accordion Show at 6:00 pm to the DJ ALAMUSIC set from 9:30 to 10:30 pm, there's entertainment for the entire family on the Italian Week Ottawa stage. 301 Preston St. Ottawa's new choir Bold Voices presents Music Down in My Soul, a program of pieces by Black composers. 🆓 Shop for unique items by Métis, Inuit, and First Nations makers at the Summer Indigenous Art Market. National Arts Centre from 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Manotick's Dickinson Days are filled with food, parades, live music, and fireworks. 🏳️🌈 The theme of this year's Youth Pride Prom is Enchanted Fairytale. The ByTowne Cinema's screening of Chicago is preceded by fabulous burlesque from Frisqué Femme Productions. Guitars and Gasoline Festival celebrates motorsports and music with a 100% Canadian line up including Blue Rodeo, Josh Ross, Theory of a Deadman, and more. Tent sites, yurts for glamping, and RV spots are all available. In Volleyball Nations League - Women's, Dominican Republic faces Netherlands at 4:00 pm, and Serbia takes on Japan at 7:30 pm. ByTowne Cinema: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Secret Mall Apartment, Chicago with Frisqué Femme Burleseque Mayfair Theatre: One to One: John & Yoko, Friendship, American Psycho Gigs AnjChito. Night Oat Café Afro Jazz (Vol 2). First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa Uncle Strut. LIVE on Elgin Backseat Dragon. Rainbow Bistro Nature Pleads Revenge, Concessions, Bury The Past, The Jenova Projekt, Under the Influence. Dominion Tavern
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The 2025 Perth Kilt Run is a mere 17 days away. Make sure your kilt is back from the dry cleaners in time to take part in what is, after nearly 10 years, still a Guiness World Record smashing event. You'll find more than just beer at Carlton Place's Beer Fest on Friday June 27. Food, games, live music, and a craft market will all be waiting at CP Market Pavilion and parking lot (7 Beckwith Street) from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm (last call at 10:15). Ottawa On Tap Beerfest in Bells Corners will feature your favourite breweries from across Ottawa as well as a few from out of town. Saturday July 5 from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
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