Juniper Kitchen and Wine
Next time there’s a severe thunderstorm warning, book a table at Juniper. There we were, tucked into a booth in a mostly all-window room, safe from the booms and the bolts and the odd flying branch, comforted – as only [read more]
Arc Lounge and Restaurant
Some of Ottawa’s better chefs passed through the Arc Lounge and Restaurant kitchen in its first decade. Let’s see, there was Steve Mitton (now at Murray Street), René Rodriguez (Navarra), Paul Stewart (moved to B.C.), Jean-Pierre Bourghart (Sterling in Gatineau) [read more]
Le Cafe
December, 2012 note to readers: Michael Blackie has left the National Arts Centre For as many years as I’ve been writing about Ottawa restaurants, I have found the food at the National Arts Centre’s dining room pretty so-what-ish, hobbled by [read more]
Zen Kitchen
Zen Kitchen does not have a mission statement pinned to its front door. It does not come with monastically uncomfortable tables, cafeteria-style rails or weigh scales by the cash register. It does not litter the walls with new-agey, pseudo-Buddhist, über-hippy [read more]
Must Wine and Tapas
Must is a wine bar and small plates restaurant that has tucked itself into the two-storey heritage space on William Street, where the Mexican restaurant Azteca used to be. I smelled the cleverly named Must from down the street (making [read more]
The Courtyard Restaurant
Change is a constant. The 180-year-old building at 21 George St. in the ByWard Market has seen its share of it, and I’ve come back to the 30-year-old Courtyard Restaurant because of a change in the kitchen. My last report [read more]
Molto – NOW CLOSED
It would seem Gatineau restaurants in the downtown core are as subject to the challenge of busy noons and quiet evenings as are those on the Ottawa side. The newish Molto (formerly Euro Bistro, same owner, new chef) is packed [read more]
