food & drink

A lovely bouquet of carrots, snapped by Vu Nguyen today at the Lansdowne Farmers' Market. Republished here with his permission. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/carrots.jpg) ** ** ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa Farmers Markets Guide If you liked this post, please consider subscribing to our blog via email, Twitter, Facebook or RSS. ...

A couple weeks ago Dwayne Brown posted this delicious photo on his blog: [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DBS_fishfriday.jpg) Fish Friday at the Cat. Photo by [ Dwayne Brown ](http://blog.dwaynebrown.com/2011/07/fish-friday-at-cat.html) , used by permission. It's a photo of the fish and chips at the [ Cheshire Cat Pub ](http://www. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/quart.jpg) Behold The Quart. Photo by [ Collin Guillas ](http://twitter.com/#!/urbandetail) . Got a note on the weekend from [ Colin Guillas ](http://twitter.com/#!/urbandetail) , to let me know about a new Twitter feed he's set up to track and share the price of quarts of beer at Ottawa taverns. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/natalie.jpg) New app puts Ottawa's Natalie MacLean in your pocket. Last year we featured Natalie MacLean's [ wine-matching widget ](http://ottawastart.com/cool-wine-matching-widget-from-natalie-maclean/) . She's one-upped this summer with a new mobile app: _ The Natalie MacLean Wine Picks & Pairings app lets you use your smartphone camera to snap a picture of any bottle label bar code in the liquor store. ...

** _ UPDATE: Thanks to reader comments below & via Twitter - I added a few photos & locations to this list of recently demised KFC’s. _ ** While all of the attention this week has been on the demise of the Dirty Bird in Hintonburg , let us not forget the other area KFC’s that also closed this week, and in previous years. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/423479322/) Photo by [ Steve Brandon ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/423479322/) , used by permission. Yes, this is actually happening. Not a joke, apparantly. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/349916851/) Pub Italia in Little Italy. Photo by [ Steve Brandon ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/349916851/) , used by permission. The Ontario Government announced this week that they're updating our province's liquor laws. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/spruce-tips.jpg) Spruce tips. Photo by [ Mark Lepine ](http://lockerz.com/s/102421419) , used by permission. We're in the middle of prime spruce tip picking time in Ottawa, according to [ Marc Lepine ](http://twitter. ...

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I enjoyed - and agree with - this blog post from David Scrimshaw about those hole-filled ziplock grape bags . “It used to be you’d pull a plastic bag off the roller and bag your own grapes,” writes David. “Now they’re bagged for you. ...