Does the professional restaurant critic matter?
In reaction to the Ottawa Citizen parting company with my weekly column of twenty years, Restaurateur Stephen Beckta (Beckta, Play) and blogger Don Chow (foodiePrints) were interviewed on CBC Radio’s All in a Day program, about the future of the [read more]
Take Away Lunch at Juniper
Weekly Lunch Pick published in OttawaMagazine.com, March 5, 2012 Juniper Kitchen / Wine Bar Take-Out Lunch I began with dessert. No one was looking – it was just me, at my desk, alone with my Juniper Take Out Lunch, in [read more]
Ottawa’s Brilliant Backyard
For the summer issue of Taste & Travel, a wintry tale of a cold capital… and of its edible bounty. UPDATE: you will note that the restaurant Sweetgrass, referenced below, has closed. Chef Warren Sutherland is now at the SmoQue [read more]
Lunch in Kingston
Has Chez Piggy been done to death? Probably. Some of the done-ing by me over the years. I’ve noshed at a good many Kingston restaurants, and written about some of them – Olivea, Casa Domenico, Aqua Terra by Clark come [read more]
Best Bites of 2011
My annual year-end column that re-chews my favourite dishes of the year begins with a monstrous hunk of expensive meat at a glam new downtown steakhouse and ends with an almond cake at a new creperie in a little Valley [read more]
