- Enjoy 1984 prices when Ottawa Bagel Shop celebrates 40 years in business on Saturday April 27. Early risers will benefit most, because the throwback pricing will only last from 7:00 am to 10:00 am, but other fun is planned for the entire day. 1321 Wellington St. W
- Aventure Outaouaisâs new Wakefield Food Tour will visit four of the charming villageâs best eateries (Nikosi Bistro Pub, Ixim CafĂŠ Bistro, La Muse, and La Confiserie Wakefield) on Thursday evenings from June 6 through September 26. As always, the ticket price includes pick up and drop off from locations in Ottawa and Gatineau. $107.50 per person plus taxes.
- In Arnprior, Wesâ Chips and Cold Bear Brewery have a tasty collab that could win you a sweet prize. Bring a box of Wesâ Chips into the brewery anytime in the month of April, then order a beer, wine, or cider to wash it down, and youâll be entered into a giveaway to win Cold Bear or Wesâ Chips gift cards and merch.
- Sample five whiskies from The Isles (specifically Mull, Islay, Jura, Skye, and Orkney) at Deacon Brodiesâs tasting event on Sunday April 14.
- Oysters are $1.50 at the Soca Kitchen on Wednesdays from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (or until the oysters run out).
- No, itâs not too early to plan your Motherâs Day event. Saunders Farm is holding a classic Motherâs Day Tea with details like âMomosasâ made with the farmâs own cider, finger sandwiches, and bakery treats, plus your maternal figure will receive a two cup tea pot and box of English Breakfast tea to take home. There are two seatings to choose from, and after you eat, all the Farmâs fun activities will be available to help the kids burn off the house-made pop tarts.
- Tea will also be pouring at Billings Estate National Historic Site. Once youâve had your fill of three tiers of finger sandwiches and scones, head into the museum to take in the Steeped in Traditions: Ottawa Tea Cultures and Rituals exhibit (included in your Motherâs Day Tea ticket). Reservations for the Tea opened today.
- To celebrate the declaration of Ottawa as âThe Shawarma Capital of Canadaâ, Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip invited the ideaâs creator, OrlĂŠans West-Innes ward councillor Laura Dudas, to eat at one of her favourite spots: Cedar Valley Lebanese Restaurant. Dudas said that there are more shawarma restaurants in Ottawa than Tim Hortonâs.
- Meanwhile down the road, Toronto has mixed opinions. Streets of Toronto countered with their five best Hogtown shawarma joints, whereas BlogTO admits Ottawa may deserve the title and Toronto is actually the Jamaican Patty capital of Canada.
- Zachary Resnick at Apartment 613 talks to the founders of a new locally distilled gin, Recipe Number 7 from Clawfoot Stills.
- In the Ottawa Business Journal, Sarah MacFarlane asks 21 questions of Coconut Lagoon and Thali chef/owner Joe Thottungal. Says Thottungal, âOttawa is the best place to introduce unique cuisines and our well-diversified community will embrace the new experienceâ.
- After 36 years in Vanier, Mandarin Ogilvie will be closing June 3.
- Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen tries out the Filipino fare at Sanduk. Hum enjoyed his meal, despite the menuâs description of some items being âexoticâ or âbizarreâ.
- Le Cordon Bleu (the Paris one, not Ottawa)-trained chef Catherine Donovan has opened a new restaurant in Pembroke, FN Foods, that she describes as âjunk food without the junkâ. Featured on the menu are mac and cheese, baked beans, jerk chicken, Philly cheesesteak, hot dogs, and spaghetti.
- Former food editor of the Ottawa Citizen, Kathleen Walker, has died. As the food critic from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, she wrote under the pseudonym Elizabeth Elmsley. During her tenure, she contracted Hepatitis A from one restaurant and, always fearless, wrote âToo often, we settle for a standard of mediocrity that wouldnât be tolerated in any country that cared about what it put in its stomachâ. Walker was 77.
|
