One woman is managing the room all on her lonely and she’s working bloody hard. Granted, it’s not a big room – 44 seats by my count – but every one of them is occupied and our hearts sink at [read more]
Nectar Fine Teas
A digital timer arrives with tea. It’s the only jarring ingredient at a Nectar lunch. But once it dings – three minutes, forty three and a half seconds later (give or take) – indicating that the ideal steeping time for that particular brew has been met and you then dutifully remove the pouch of leaves from the edge of the white pot and place the soggy brown bulge on the waiting saucer (which is then scurried away), there remains not a thing about lunch at Nectar to ruffle a feather.
Ottawa’s Brilliant Backyard!
Now as a flipbook – very cool – the wintry tale I penned on Ottawa’s bountiful backyard, for the summer issue of the brilliant, now one-year-old Canadian magazine Taste & Travel, an Ottawa-based, internationally focused publication created for those who love [read more]
Carleton Grill, Sheraton Ottawa
I’ve felt crummy for a bunch of years about mangling Frédéric Filliodeau’s name in my first Capital Dining guidebook. For one, I called him Philipe. Very rude. And – as if rechristening him wasn’t enough – I dropped an l [read more]
Lunch at Canvas
WEEKLY LUNCH PICK: Canvas for Ottawa Magazine, March 19, 2012 It had been my plan to eat Vietnamese for this weekly lunch report. But after navigating the crusty banks of blackening snow in Chinatown, finding a spot to park, then [read more]
