Five of Ottawa’s best Happy Hours (5 à 7)
Let’s face it: sometimes work makes you want to drink.
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Eat, Drink, Spring – Ottawa Food and Wine show
Though I consider myself more of a sophisticated drinker than a sophisticated dresser; the Ottawa Wine and Food Show has always been an annual excuse to see if my vest still fits, make vest puns and to test my “How to Tie a Tie” bookmark. The event has now expanded to offer a springtime event: Eat, Drink, […]
Food & Wine Festival turns it up this year
Every year, mid-Fall, I Youtube “How to Tie a Tie” then I don my best vest and tie combo and attend the Wine & Food show at the Ottawa Conference Centre. It’s one of the city’s most epic galas that combines very well-dressed people with copious amounts of high-end food and drink. It even helped […]
Weekly News Quiz: July 15, 2013
Think you are up to date about local happenings? Test your knowledge with our local news quiz, five questions designed to test whether you’ve been paying attention. How to score: 5 out of 5: News stud! I hear The Citizen is hiring… 4 out of 5: Cheater! You work at City Hall. 3 out of […]
Your friendly guide to surviving an LCBO strike
There’s a distinct possibility that Ontarians will be waking up Friday morning to the LCBO’s first strike in its 87-year history. And given it’s the Victoria Day long weekend, the timing of the looming labour stoppage — unless you’re among the 95 percent of LCBO employees who’ve voted in favour of a strike mandate — […]
Weekly News Review: Ottawa Olympics update, Monopolatte, River’s sewer problem and more!
You might criticize him for skipping out on city council’s last meeting, but I think it’s kind of cool that Rideau-Vanier Councillor Mathieu Fleury is in London, volunteering for the 2012 Olympics. He’s there as an outfitter for the Canadian olympic team, something he did in 2010 in Vancouver as well as in Guadalajara, Mexico […]
Play – It’s getting better…
I was going to title this review “not so fun” since my first experience at Play was just that. I went with a group of friends on the first Friday the restaurant was open. Everything was wrong but the food. There were 5 red wines available by the glass – how one can offer 5 […]
HOT Wine Buy at the LCBO
Often times folks scoff at how much wine costs us here at the LCBO – when south of the border you are paying about half for exactly the same product. This week however, the LCBO is offering a crazy deal on what I think is a decent wine. Yellow Jersey wines, a Merlot, Pinot Noir, […]
