SKATE! The Rideau Canal RUN! through Byward Market so that you can DRINK! the beverage of your choice at The Aulde Dubliner/Pour House $20.00 per person (entrance fee includes first beverage of the night) Raise $100 in pledges for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and race for free! There is no pre-registration for the Carleton Cup! Please join us at the Aulde Dubliner to hand in your pledges, register and to receive your race #. ITINERARY FOR JANUARY 29th: 5:00PM – 6:30PM Registration in the Aulde Dubliner/Pour House 62 William St.... | Continue reading article

Kichesippi Beer continues its expansion in the Ottawa beer market concluding the purchase of Scotch Irish Brewing Co. This in itself is a simple asset transaction. Two thirds of Scotch Irish were owned by Heritage owners Ron Moir and Donna Warner while the other third was owned by Heritage Head Brewmaster, Ancil Hartman. Hartman remains as Head Brewmaster for Kichesippi. For new owners, Paul and Kelly Meek, it only made sense to consolidate the brands under Kichesippi. Meek commented that Scotch Irish is quite popular in Toronto and Kichesippi plans on... | Continue reading article

The National Arts Centre and some of Ottawa’s most popular chefs will host Canada’s top culinary stars at the First Annual Canadian Celebrity Chefs event on January 24, 2011. . The event – hosted by Kevin Brauch, star of The Thirsty Traveller on Food Network Canada –will showcase the best talent and cuisine coming from Canadian chefs and feature demonstrations, discussions and food and wine tastings that highlight the importance of modern Canadian cuisine. . Top Celebrity Chefs from across Canada will come together to match their culinary spirit with... | Continue reading article

Lately, I’ve been following the tweets and Facebook updates from the folks out at Beau’s with mild trepidation. You see, on Wednesday, the award-winning eastern Ontario brewery announced the release of its limited edition “Bogfather” beer. They’ve only committed to releasing 1,000 bottles of the latest edition in their Wild Oats series, and when I checked in this morning, they were down to 800. By my calculations, that only gives me a week or so to get out to Vankleek Hill before it’s all gone! How potentially tragic. While you... | Continue reading article

Post by Jared Davidson. Sun Cafe is located at 410 Bank Street, and is open everyday from 7am to 10pm. I’m afraid of coffee shops. I live in terror of that moment of truth when the barista kindly smiles at me and asks what I want. I never know. I want coffee, presumably, but as I look at the drink list behind the counter, its endless possibilities cloud my tiny mind and I realize just how unprepared I was to undertake the enormous responsibility of ordering a drink. I don’t... | Continue reading article

As Ottawa receives its first snow of the season, our thoughts here at Apartment613 are turning from cold beer and patios to hot chocolate and fireplaces. A group of brave volunteers expect to give everyone’s favourite winter drink the full double blind taste test treatment some point soon at the Apartment613 Science laboratories. However, we first needed to know which of the hundreds of national capital coffee shops, cafes and chocolatiers were deserving of inclusion in our scientific experiment. That’s where Twitter comes in. We asked the Ottawa twittosphere where... | Continue reading article

UPDATE: Sparks St. Trailblazer! Official store hours newly posted are 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.! And it’s open weekends from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wow. PMO staffers are now able to get a cup of organic coffee instead of Conservative staple Tim Hortons in their own backyard. Bridgehead opened a new location on Monday on Sparks and Metcalfe. The new store is open from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 9 p.m.! For those looking for the populist brew, Tim Hortons will re-open at the former Shoppers Drug Mart a... | Continue reading article

Apartment613 has a long history with beer…in many ways, we actually credit beer with this blog’s creation. We’re also huge fans of Beau’s Brewery in Vankleek Hill – we had a great time at their Oktoberfest party and we broke the news last summer when they released their IPA. It seems that things are only going up for Beau’s as they expanded into the Toronto market recently and have now announced their much anticipated four-packs are available at the LCBO. Honestly, it wasn’t a huge burden to have to finish... | Continue reading article

Ottawa might not be known as a foodie capital, but there is no doubt that there is something of a food culture living below the surface of our city. A world-class culinary school and top-notch restaurants certainly help, but the lifeblood of any foodie community (and we hope any community really) is its bloggers – an area where Ottawa is excelling! The institution of Food Blogging has really taken off – I’ve followed about ten new ones since watching Julie and Julia alone. In my Google Reader list there are... | Continue reading article

Last week, we were thrilled to announce A Valentine’s Day TEA-ser, our upcoming fundraiser with Ottawa’s premier burlesque group, the Sexual Overtones. The event had everything – tea, crumpets, adhesive nipple patches – that is, everything except for a location. This Tuesday, our original venue decided to break their contract with us only 12 days before the event. While we have yet to receive an official explanation, we suspect it may have been canceled because of the ‘age 19+’ nature of the show. This is really quite unfortunate. The Overtones... | Continue reading article