wine

Charmed by Champagne? Prefer Prosecco? Don’t miss natureTASTES at the Canadian Museum of Nature! Experience the unique pairing of a museum scientist and sommelier Debbie Trenholm from Savvy Company leading an evening of sparkling wit and wines. Taste traditional, contemporary, and experimental sparkling wines and explore how the natural environment can impact flavour and wine production. ...

Veggies. Photo by Lydia Bociurkiw. When we started this list in 2009, there were around 20 active food blogs included in our listing. By 2011 that number mushroomed to 60 active blogs, but now the food blog trend has subsided. ...

For this year’s list, please see: What’s open and closed in Ottawa on Easter Weekend 2017

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“331”] [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/jvlphoto/14289976726) PHOTO: Can there ever be too much wine? by Justin Van Leeuwen, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group[/caption]  Ontario has allowed restaurants to offer “bring your own wine” (BYOW) service for nearly ten years now, but there aren’t too many Ottawa restaurants that allow it (or promote it). ...

Come December 4, 2014 Lansdowne will see a new addition to the Park. Sort of like your living room with the addition of people serving you, LOCAL Public Eatery will be opening in the Glebe. Offering up straightforward classics, rotating taps and a laid back atmosphere LOCAL is a lot like a home away from home. ...

After a smashing welcome to The Glebe this summer {segue} at 749 Bank Street is moving forward and giving itself a face-lift. Ottawa restaurateur Ion Aimers, along with partners Chef Rich Wilson & Sommelier Lindsay Gordon took over the amazing central Glebe location in June, and opened without a hiccup in the old Fratelli's on Bank. ...

_ Today’s guest blog comes from Ottawa wine expert Natalie Maclean . If you’re into wine, you should check out Natalie’s web site for lots of wine resources, like this wine-matching widget that we featured earlier this year. _ ...

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 ...