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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.

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Our favourite restaurant listings
Ottawa Food Blogs
More local restaurant info
Catering
Farmers Markets & Organic Food
Restaurants
Bakeries, Cakes, Sweets
Specialty Foods & Services
Grocery Stores
Drinks (wine, beer, liquor)

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

365 Days of Ottawa Food
After The Harvest
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
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 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

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
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
Ottawa XPress reviews
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 (new!)

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
Add your listing: Basic listings on this Web site are free to all food-related businesses. Please click here to suggest a site to our editors.

Bakeries, Cakes, Sweets

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

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 Foods
Wow Mom - Homemade... To Go (Facebook page)
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Grocery Stores

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
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