Cafe L’Entree, National Gallery of Canada
There is a woeful gap in the growing gastronomy of this great Capital City of ours. The missed-opportunity sort of gap and one I long to see filled. I refer to the dearth of a decent dining room in any [read more]
“spin” Kitchen and Bar
The restaurant that used to look down on Parliament Hill from 29 floors up, called Merlot (and way back when, La Ronde), has been rechristened Summit, now a “revolving event space” available for private functions. The business of daily dining [read more]
Grill Forty One
The Lord Elgin Hotel unveiled its redesigned dining room last September. Grill Forty One is named in honour of the year the hotel was built. In all those 70 years I have never eaten a meal at the Lord Elgin. [read more]
Sunset Dinner Train
Entire families show up to greet us. They wave from their backyards. Kids race from front porches. Kayakers put down their paddles and raise hands in salute. A woman sitting alone at a picnic bench with a bottle of wine [read more]
Issac’s 64 Hundred
Issac’s former home was in a Kanata mini mall. As of last December, it is housed in a suburban mansion in a new Stittsville subdivision. Renamed Issac’s 64 Hundred, this impressive structure is more than just a restaurant. The heart [read more]
Café du Musée
Le Café du Musée has one of the finest views of any restaurant in the region. Gaze out its rounded wall of windows and you feast on the city – from the red roof of the Ottawa New Edinburgh Club [read more]
West End Station Bistro
UPDATE: WESB HAS CLOSED Bells Corners, forgive me, is not a hot bed of gastronomy. So when an upscale restaurant lasts as long in a corner as littered with fast food outlets as The West End Station Bistro has, [read more]
