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Foodie Friday: Shared commercial kitchen finally opens its doors

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
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It took nearly two years but the Cauldron Kitchen is finally open for business. Ottawa’s first, ultra-flexible, totally shared commercial kitchen, targeted at Ottawa’s budding small-time foodie businesses in need of a place to prepare their goodies without violating health and safety laws, opened its doors last month. “What we discovered is that building a kitchen from scratch is not a simple feat,” says co-founder David Villarroel, who anticipated a summer 2014 grand openin ....

Ottawans offered A Taste of the Arctic next Monday

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
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While Ottawa has the largest Inuit population outside of the Arctic, many Ottawans who don’t have ties to the North have few opportunities to experience the richness and diversity of Inuit culture. Next Monday, an event offers Southerners an opportunity to sample the NAC kitchen’s take on a variety of Inuit culinary delicacies, with ingredients including arctic char, arctic berries, arctic shrimp, and muskox. There’s also a generous promotional rate being offered to ....

Dining Out: How some Meaty Sandwiches Measure Up

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
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Meat In The Middle 311 Bank St., 613-422-6328, meatinthemiddle.ca Open: Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday noon to 6 p.m., closed Sundays Meat Press Creative Charcuterie and Sandwich Shop 45 Armstrong St.,613-695-7737, meatpress.ca Open: Monday to Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., closed Sundays I have loved a good smoked meat sandwich for as long as I can remember. As Nepean-raised teenagers in the 1980s, we’d make trips to Nate’s Deli on Rideau Street for its storied smok ....

Dining Out: Asian Alley Serves Some Pho of Note in the ByWard Market

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
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Asian Alley 8 Byward Market Sq., 613-860-9889, asianalley.ca Open: Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Prices: main dishes $10.50 to $15.95 Access: no steps to front door or washrooms My dining companion took a sip from his bowl of piping hot Vietnamese soup and exclaimed, “Ah. Downtown pho.” We were eating last week at Asian Alley, a narrow eatery among the row of restaurants along ByWard Market Square, where, for starters, the f ....

Ottawa Wine & Food Festival Seeks Judges Order to Stay Alive

Date: Monday, March 7, 2016
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The Ottawa Wine & Food Festival will shut down unless a judge restrains the Ottawa Convention Centre from renting its space to other events during the first two weeks of November 2016 to the exclusion of the festival, a court heard Thursday. If there is no festival at the convention centre during that time period, as per the festival’s wishes and long tradition, “it will kill the business,” said Fraser MacKinnon Blair, one of the festival’s two lawyers. The festiv ....

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