food & drink

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: EatSafe Ottawa , the city’s guide to inspections of the city’s restaurants and food service businesses, is arguably the best restaurant directory online. It includes every single food venue in the city. ...

Here’s a cool wine-matching widget created by Natalie Maclean, who’s probably Ottawa’s best known wine expert. Natalie emailed us a few weeks back with details: You can search the matcher for drinks to pair with meat, pasta, seafood, vegetarian dishes, pizza, take-out, sauces, herbs, cheese or dessert; or you ...

I’ve noted before the large number of restaurant blogs in Ottawa. There are also a lot of restaurant review sites as well. I recently came across InfoGlutton , an interesting “meta-review” web site that tracks customer reviews from around the web. ...

Toronto production company Frantic Films asked if we could help spread the word about a new show they’re working on for the Food Network. Here’s the pitch: Are you about to open your first restaurant? Are you overwhelmed? Overworked? Overdrawn? ...

David Reevely on OC Transpo’s proposed food ban on OC Transpo buses: No. No, we do not want to consider a no-food policy. The very idea is patronizing and insulting. Bad enough the service is as poor as it is — now you won't be able to eat an apple or a chocolate bar during your 45-minute trip home after work or class? ...

You should read this post from the Weighty Matters blog about a suggestion to post nutritional information along with recipes printed in the Ottawa Citizen: ** ** I wrote a letter to the editor of the Citizen "demanding" that the Citizen publish nutritional information for its Food Section recipes. ...

One of our favorite local bloggers, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, asked us to send this note along to our readers. Wondering if you might be comfortable publicizing my blog post from today regarding a need for overweight children for focus groups in Ottawa on food marketing. ...

This week the City of Ottawa launched EatSafe Ottawa , an online guide to provide information about food premise inspections. Any restaurant, grocery store, cafeteria, or business that serves food to the public has to be regularly inspected by municipal officials. ...

There’s an updated list of Ottawa Food Blogs here… We recently updated our Food Guide with some new local food blogs, and can’t believe how many food blogs there are in Ottawa. Who knew Ottawa was so hungry? Here’s a list of Ottawa food blogs so far (and a couple about drinking too). ...

On his Ominvore’s Ottawa blog, Ron Eade relates this interesting story about a phone call from Costco about the Maple Leaf Foods recall ** : ** Received an alarming computer-generated voice mail message at my house yesterday, from Costco advising me that on such-and-such a date I purchased sliced pastrami that is being recalled by Maple Leaf Foods due to the listeriosis scare. ...