Oz Kafé
You needn’t be searching for a brain or a heart or courage to head to Oz. Simply seeking some solidly good, reasonably priced food, delivered by nice people in a fun place will set you on the right path. In [read more]
Play Food and Wine
LUNCH AT PLAY, for Ottawa Magazine, January 2012 Play is young and cheerful and fresh: precisely what lunch on a wintry day requires. Its prime mover, Stephen Beckta, is manning the coat check as we stomp through the York Street [read more]
Fraser Cafe
LUNCH AT FRASER CAFÉ, for Ottawa Magazine, January 2012 It’s been a little over two years now at its new location on Springfield Road and the Fraser Café, run by chef-brothers Simon and Ross, seems well and truly tucked into [read more]
The Urban Pear
For the first restaurant review of 2012, I visit an old place newly freed from the fetters of roadwork. The Urban Pear was not the only restaurant on Bank Street to feel the pain of months of heavy machinery occupation, [read more]
The Branch Restaurant
On a mission to find a Christmas guitar for a kid, my husband and I headed to Kemptville, and a shop called The Class Axe, complete with a vintage vault of guitars dating back to the 1800s. It was open [read more]
Farbs
I wrote about chef Michael Farber’s Beechwood Avenue restaurant a few months after it opened. My take in 2008: great food, shame about the service. I returned to Farbs twice in 2010, not for this column, but for Capital Dining, [read more]
allium
Much to celebrate this summer, but chilled air at Allium restaurant is top of list. They’ve installed an air conditioner – brand new, reportedly – and Allium, on many levels, is cooler than ever. Entering its eighth year of service [read more]
