Best Bites of 2010 – My year on a fork
Herewith, dear readers, my year-end column plump with memories of happy bites from the year-that-was. This year’s wrap-up launches with a Korean restaurant in Little Italy and closes with a solid “10” in a restaurant called e18hteen.I rechew them here [...]
Gold Medal Plates 2010
The venue for the 2010 Ottawa-Gatineau Gold Medal Plates was the National Arts Centre. The ten competing chefs were spread around its upper balcony, offering the 500 milling guests everything from lingcod with fenugreek curry to yuba-wrapped macadamia curd. There [...]
The best bites of 2009
Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that the hottest restaurant to open in the past 12 months wasn’t some million-dollar ByWard Market behemoth but rather a petite venture with hefty ambition, found, if you’re crafty (there is no sign), [...]
The next decade’s trendsetters
Ottawa is not a pace-setter. Beg your pardon if that offends, but in terms of innovation in the restaurant landscape we tend to be forever a few steps behind the usual suspects — Toronto, Vancouver, New York. They’re bigger, they’re [...]
Hail to the Veterans!
It’s only natural to pay attention to new restaurants. I suppose that’s because novelty is such good fun — unless, of course, yours is the kind of novelty that doesn’t quite catch on. As I flip through thick binders of [...]
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