The Ottawa Bagelshop & Deli, home to wood-fired bagels in the Montreal-style, is our favorite Westboro stop for great deli and a bag of bagels, fresh from the oven. It is impossible for us to walk out of the Bagelshop…
Boiled Peanuts, Fried Pickles Biscuits & Gravy, Fried Yardbird and Chess Pie, soul food and casual style at Ottawa's Union 613. Lunch with my gal Mary, delicious food, scandalous gossip. I am greatly blessed to have gal pals who indulge me with patience as I…
On this Wino Wednesday we tell a tale of vines in the new world and Canada's newest breakout wine region, Prince Edward County. As the winter droned on into what should have been the beginnings of spring, we loaded up for an…
A darling little gem in Bloomfield, Ontario offering seasonal fare, locally sourced, East & Main Bistro is a dining experience for even the most discerning of appetites. We are not picky eaters, and when I say we I really mean me, I'm a simple girl at…
Humble Bread is the passion project of Henry Willis and Natalie Normand. Their farm based bakery, on the crest of a hill in the heart of Ontario's Prince Edward County, resides in a hip-roofed red barn over 140 years old. "The barn was in…
As the harvest moon rises and sets on this part of the world, we took a little early morning stroll through Ottawa's Byward Market for a visual tour of the fall harvest.
There's cheese, and then there's great cheese, and then there's great Canaidian cheese, band a bunch of artisnal Canuk cheese makers together and you have The Great Canadian Cheese Festival (#TGCCF) June 1 - 3, 2012 in Picton, Ontario. The single largest exhibition of Canadain artisan, farmstead and specialty cheese from coast to coast.