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Ottawa Food & Restaurant Guide

Ottawa loves to eat out. We've got a restaurant to represent just about every nationality - from African to Vietnamese. Whether you're looking for fine dining or take-out, you'll find lots of delicious choices in the city.

Our favourite restaurant listings

• The Restaurant Thing
  This directory lists nearly 400 local restaurants. You can search the restaurants by area, price or type of food. This directory is created entirely by food fans like you: each restaurant is rated and reviewed by customers. There are no snobby food critics here at all — and you can help out by adding your review today. If you don't see your favourite eatery listed, you can log in and add the information to the listings.
• OttawaFoodies
  "A community of dedicated food enthusiasts sharing our knowledge of Ottawa restaurants, shops and individual menu items." Anyone can participate and contribute.
  
• @restowatch
  An automated Twitter feed that re-posts food safety violations, based on the City of Ottawa's inspections of local restaurants and food service providers.

Ottawa Food Blogs (and drink blogs too)

• 365 Days of Ottawa Food
• After The Harvest
• Baking in the Burg
• Barrhaven Bites
• cheapeats ottawa blog
• Chu On This
• City Bites (from Ottawa Magazine)
• Culinarily Inclined
• Daily Struggles of the Domestic Un-Goddess
• Eat Dance Live
• Eaten Up
• Equal Opportuniy Kitchen
• Eva's Food World
• the family table
• foodiePrints
• Gluten-Free Ghetto
• Heartful Mouthful
• I Adore Food
• If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On
• It Ain't Meat Babe
• Je Suis Alimentageuse
• Kathy Eats
• Kitchen Karate
• the lemon kitchen
• Lord of the Wings
  Reviews of Ottawa's best wings
• Mary Mary Culinary
• Meats, Roots and Leaves
• Mike Likes Burgers
• My Macaroni Pie
• Nooschi
• Nose to Tail
• Omnivore's Ottawa by Ottawa Citizen food writer Ron Eade
• The 613 Locavore
• The Food Method
• The Ottawa Breakfast Club
• The Pestoblog
• PopTarts and Bacon
• Rachelle Eats Food
• Sheltered Girl Meets World
• Stuffed Ottawa
• thewineway
• Pizza Ottawa
• Vanilla Bean Cafe
• Warm Vanilla Sugar
• Whisk
• Wine Out Loud
• Related: List of Ottawa restaurants in Twitter and list of Ottawa foodbloggers on Twitter

More Local Restaurant Info

• 24 hour restaurants (list of restaurants that are open 24 hours a day in Ottawa)
• Bon Appetit Ottawa
  Sample food and drink from over sixty restaurants, hoteliers and caterers, along with and dozens of wineries and breweries.
• Capital Dining
  by Anne DesBrisbay.
  Ottawa’s top restaurant critic and the author of the Citizen’s popular “Dining Out” column, Anne DesBrisay recommends over 150 restaurants in the National Capital Region. This is the second edition of Capital Dining—new and updated for 2008.
  From fine dining to the best of bistro fare, Thai cooking to French cuisine… this delectable guide is your passport to Capital Dining
  See also: CapitalDining.ca
  
• cheapeats ottawa (ottawa's guide to good inexpensive restaurants)
• Eat In Ottawa (photos of local restaurant food)
• EatSafe Ottawa
  Any restaurant, grocery store, cafeteria, or business that serves food to the public has to be regularly inspected by municipal officials. This web site lists the results of the latest inspection for every one of these food businesses. Read more...
• eatinottawa.com
• FoodMODE Magazine
• Food Trucks
  A list of the electic collection of new food trucks coming to Ottawa in 2013
• Fyood Ottawa
• Menu Ottawa (web site for ordering delivery online)
• OttawaFood
  You'll find over 1,200 local restaurants listed in this comprehensive guide. It's a "new kid on the block", which means that it's growing all the time. Restaurants can add a basic listing for free, or pay up for a featured listing.
• Ottawa Restaurants @ Restaurant.ca
  Who has the best chicken wings or dim sing in town? This nifty little directory lets you vote on various aspects of the restaurant, ranking their specialty on a scale of 1 to 10. Most listings Include a map so you can find where you're going
• Patios in Ottawa, from Let's Go Ottawa
• Pizza Ottawa
• Restaurants in Ottawa via YellowPages.ca.
• Savour Ottawa
• Specials Today
  lists food & drink specials at local bars & restaurants

Restaurants

• Agave Grill
• ARC Lounge.Dining
• Ben Ben Restaurant
• Blue Nile
• Buonissimo Bakery
• Canvas Resto Bar
• Charlie Chan
• Coconut Lagoon Restaurant (Indian)
• D&S Southern Comfort BBQ
  
• Elgin Street Diner
• El Meson (Spanish, Portugese)
• Feleena's Mexican Restaurant
• Genji Japanese Restaurant
• Gracie O'Malley's Irish Pub
• Hot Cup Cafe
• Inspired Edibles
• Juniper Kitchen & Wine Bar
• KARARA Indian Take-Out
• Kimicha Tea
• Kinki Restaurant (Japanese)
• Knox Fine Dining
• La Dolce Vita
• Le Michel-Ange
• Le Saint-O
• Les Fougeres
• Louisiannie's
• Louis Steak House
• Malone's Lakeside Grill
• Marble Slab Creamery
• Mekong (Chinese)
• Montana's
• Pepper Garden Bistro
• Posto Panini
• Santé Restaurant
• Shanghai Restaurant
• Shawarma Plus
• Siam Bistro
• Sukhothai Restaurant
• the branch restaurant
• The Lindenhof Restaurant
• The Pine Restaurant & Tavern
• The Urban Pear
• The Works
• Yazmin Restaurant
• Zuni Grill

Bakeries, Cakes, Sweets

• See also: Ottawa Wedding Guide / Wedding Cakes...
• Angelic Cakes
• Aux Délices Bakery
• BeaverTails Inc.

• The Candy Store
• JoJo Coco
• Ready-Made Custom Cupcakes
• Reggina Pastry
• Sweet Thingz Cakepops
• Sweet!
• Sweets (cupcakes)
• Warm Vanilla Sugar

Specialty Foods & Services & More

• All Things Food SDG Community Food Network
• Back Of The House (chefs / jobs)
• Balderson Cheese
• BelKraft (kitchen & dining products)
• Camellia Teas of Ottawa
• Dinnerworks.ca (social club)
• Dobson's Grass-Fed Beef
• Epicuria
• Equator Coffee Roasters
• Fastcooking.ca
• Francesco's Coffee Company
• The Gluten-free Guru
• Island Spiced (Jamaican hot sauces)
• Just Food
  "Working towards a just and sustainable food program in Ottawa."
• M & M Meat Shops
• National Capital Vegetarian Association
• Natural Food Pantry
• Ottawa Bagelshop and Deli
  Owner and manager Vincenzo Piazza remembers that first day of business: "When we first opened twenty years ago, the most common reaction was, 'What's a bagel?'" The shop now stands as an art gallery, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a deli, a gourmet food emporium, and more. (And the bagels are good, too!)
• Ottawa Good Food Box
  A nonprofit community-based program, bringing neighbours together to buy delicious and nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Ottawa Veg2!
• The Single Gourmet
  A social dining club for upscale singles. Members gather at top restaurants and hotels several times a month for gourmet dinners, dinner dances and exciting gala evenings.
• Simply Fresh Roastery (coffee)
• SimplyRaw Living
• SupperWorks
• Wow Mom - Homemade... To Go (Facebook page)
  

Street Food & Food Trucks

• The Ultimate Food Truck List (from the Kathy Eats food blog)
• Street Food Ottawa (Twitter)

Grocery Stores

• Bulk Barn
• The Country Grocer
• Farmboy
• Food Basics
• Loblaws
• Metro
• Online Grocer
• Produce Depot
• Sobey's
• TeleGrocer

Drinks (Wine, beer, and more)

• 13 Celcius (wine tasting events)
  
• The Beer Hunter
  A map of places in Ottawa where you can get alcohol -- including Beer Stores, LCBO, Wine Rack, and independent dealers. They'll also tell you how many retail outlets are open at any given time.
• The Beer Store
• Blue Gypsy Wines
• Capital Cellars (wine cellars)
• Excel Water Technologies Inc.
• A guide to beer in and around Ottawa
  (from Let's Go Ottawa)
• Lanark Pure County Springs
• LCBO
• Nat Decants
  Natalie MacLean is one of Ottawa's best known wine experts, and her site is full of useful info for wine connoiseurs.
• The National Capital Sommelier Guild
• Pure Brew (wine)
• Tre Amici Imports - Kasey Boudreau
• Water Filter Canada
• Wine and Food Show
• Wine Cellar Solutions

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