Address: 200 Wilbrod St, Ottawa ON Hours: 11:00am – 3:00pm (M-Th), 11:00am – 7:00pm (F), 1:30pm – 6:30pm, (Sat), closed Sundays. Also on Street Food App. Website: https://www.nachocartel.com/ Green factor: Metal trays for dining in, not sure about take-out. Garbage and recycling bins, no compost. Coming from Halifax, where there’s not a lot of good options for Mexican or […]
Address: 1169 Bank St, Ottawa, ON Hours: 5:00pm – midnight (Wed – Thu); 5:00 – 1am (Fri – Sat); 10:00am – 3:00pm (Sun); closed (Mon – Tue) Website: http://www.belmontottawa.com/ Looking to have a bite before a show at the Mayfair, The Belmont popped into my mind as both a convenient location and a place that my wife and I had been […]
Address: Place de la Bourse 3, 1000 Brusells, Belgium Website: https://www.mcdonalds.be Michelin stars: 0 After a day of tourist-ing, beer, and waffles, my wife and I were primed for what all lame, North American tourists should do while abroad: try out the local McDonald’s to see what’s different there. The closest one to us in Brussels’ old city was just minutes away from […]
Address: 5 Rue Montalembert, 75007 Paris, France Website: https://www.joel-robuchon.com/ Michelin stars: 2 On a previous vacation, I had eaten at the Las Vegas L’Atelier location after Michelin had pulled out of Vegas (grrr…), so it seemed fitting that I dine at the two-starred Paris operation for our high-end dining experience in France. L’Atelier’s modus operandi is an open kitchen surrounded by […]
Address: 103 Fourth Ave, Ottawa, ON Hours: 9:30am – 7pm (M, W-Th); closed Tues; 9:30am – 7pm (F-Sa); 10am – 6pm (Sun) Website: www.tamiscafe.ca As with many things in life, when you have your established paths and businesses that you frequent, it’s easy for the rest to pass you by in the blur of your peripheral vision while you go about […]
Address: Corner of Preston and Louisa in Little Italy Hours: 9:00 – 4:00pm (Mon – Fri) Website: mrpanino.ca Green factor: Recycling available. Styrofoam containers and plastic utensils. When it comes to food trucks, there’s varying degrees of how easy it is to discover them. Some have an active presence across all the big social media platforms, plus up-to-date schedules […]
Address: 610 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa Hours: 12:00pm – 9:00pm (Tue-Fri); 12:00pm – 4:00pm (Sat); closed Sunday – Monday Website: No website, Facebook only Wanting to go out for dinner, but being motivationally restricted by a flash freeze and freezing rain, I remembered that Table 85 was just a block away from our apartment. I’d read good things about this […]
Address: 1217 Walkley Rd, Ottawa, ON Hours: 11:00 – 7:00pm (Mon-Sat); closed Sunday (hours from their infrequently updated Facebook) Website: No, sir Green factor: Recycling for bottles. Styrofoam containers. When you’re a mobile food vendor, you have to use all the available tools at your disposal to make your (literally) small business as visible as possible. Mexigo Cabana puts their best digital […]
Address: 62 Sparks St, Ottawa ON Hours: Lunch: 11:30am – 2:30pm (Mon-Fri); Dinner: 5:00pm – 10:00pm (Mon-Wed), 5:00pm – 11:00pm (Th-Sat), 5:00pm – 9:00pm (Sun) Website: http://www.dineriviera.com/ My small-town side really shows when it comes to places like Riviera. Back in my hometown, you only need a reservation when you have a large group – and even then it’s […]
Address: 538 Rochester St, Ottawa, ON (behind the Morning Owl) Hours: 11:00am – 2:00pm (M-F, during the warm months) Website: Nada Green factor: No composting or recycling. Recyclable/re-useable containers. After hearing tales of delicious lunches at the dumpling truck my sister was mildly addicted to, she shot me a message last summer to meet up for lunch and finally […]