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Presdelicious 2019
Presdelicious is back! 🇮🇹🍴🍷 From March 1st – 10th Hot on the heels of two successful summertime appearances, Presdelicious can’t wait for warm weather as it returns this winter from March 1 – 10, 2019. Some call it a food festival, others refer to it as a showcase of deliciousness. However you choose to describe it, […]
Gift Guide: Support local with these gifts for cooks and foodies
Ten tasty and useful gifts for the foodies on your list, all available locally.
Chef’s Plate brings the groceries (and the recipes) to you
Chef’s Plate, a food delivery service originating in Toronto, brings together farm-fresh ingredients and simple recipes to create delicious meals at home.
Anne DesBrisay’s Ottawa Cooks is a “celebration of the Ottawa culinary scene”
Ottawa Cooks has been a long time coming – not only because it is the 7th book in Figure One Publishing’s “Canada Cooks” series, but also because the culinary scene in Ottawa is only now reaching its full potential.
Meals on Wheels: Community helping community
Elliot is one of almost 500 Meals on Wheels volunteers who collectively donate around 2,000 hours of their time and deliver over 10,000 hot and frozen meals each month in Ottawa.
Your fall guide to Ottawa’s farmers’ markets
Fall is upon us and, believe it or not, so is prime time for farmers’ markets.
Veggie Drop brings organic food to your door
Veggie Drop will bring vegetables and other treats right to your door.
Foodie Friday: Sustainable eating gets a pulse
Three years ago, the United Nations declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. To celebrate this initiative, the Canadian Agriculture and Food Museum has paired with Pulse Canada to showcase the versatile, healthful, yet oft-overlooked food group with Pulses: The Ideal Partner, an interactive travelling exhibition. Thursday, May 5 marked the Pulse Feast, where guests […]
Join us for #Grow613 Day
The region we live in is incredible for food—we can find local vegetables, eggs, fruit, honey, grains, microgreens and so much more practically in our backyards. The local farmers and growers that provide Ottawa with all of this fresh, local produce is a very long list. When you add in the food makers—those chefs and […]
Foodie Friday: Shared commercial kitchen finally opens its doors
It took nearly two years but the Cauldron Kitchen is finally open for business. Ottawa’s first, ultra-flexible, totally shared commercial kitchen, targeted at Ottawa’s budding small-time foodie businesses in need of a place to prepare their goodies without violating health and safety laws, opened its doors last month. “What we discovered is that building a kitchen from […]
What’s on your plate? Local food for thought about eating as a community
Alison Larabie Chase blogs about cooking and restaurants at This Dessert Life when she’s not herding cats, working in association communications, or traveling the world. A community cooking night. An apple festival. No less than three events involving local craft breweries. In case you hadn’t noticed, Support Local 2015 is focused primarily on facilitating discussions […]
Foodie Friday: eCelery brings the world to your doorstep (and your plate)
Ottawa is a city rich in cultural diversity. If you need proof, look no further than the end of your fork. You want Thai? We’ve got Thai. You want Greek? Done. German? Indian? Japanese? There’s no limit. There is however the tricky question of finding authentic cuisine. One of the best ways to introduce yourself […]
Lots O’ Tacos at Taco Fest
Whoever first said “you can’t have too much of a good thing” might very well have been talking about tacos. I can’t say for certain but what is for sure is that if you’re a taco fan there’s a festival just for you. At the second annual Ottawa Taco Fest you can taste tacos from the city’s most […]
Foodie Friday: Honey Town’s savory dishes take the cake
As someone who lives in Chinatown and loves to eat, I noticed with interest when I saw that a new restaurant was opening at the corner of Somerset and Arthur. Honey Town takes up the western end of the plaza that also houses Possible Worlds, the store and workshop space opened by Spins and Needles, […]
Brew Brahs chat with Beau’s Brewery chef Bruce Wood
Jordan Duff is a regular contributor over at BrewBrahs, where they talk about everything beer. You can also find them on Twitter. If you’re a beer drinker in Ottawa – heck, in Ontario – then you’ve sampled a Beau’s brew. They’ve been creating craft suds since before it was cool, way back in 2006. With dozens of breweries now […]
