Address: 775 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, ON Hours: 11:00am – 9:00pm daily Website: https://thenoodlehouseottawa.wordpress.com/ Xiao long bao, Chinese soup dumplings, have become a bit of a culinary white whale for me. Discussed frequently on food shows, blogs, and the interwebs in general, these dumplings remained elusive while I was living on the east coast. With my move up to Ottawa […]
Address: 184 Main St, Ottawa Hours: 11am – 8pm (Mon – Sat); 11:30am – 7:30pm (Sun) Website: http://sulawok.com/ Now that the blog is up and running, a new dilemma has now presented itself: my wife/blog editor tends to get food cravings after proof-reading my reviews. Review a donair place? Cravings for east coast grub ensues. Chinese place we […]
Address: 1129 Baxter Road, Ottawa, ON Hours: 10:00am – 5:00pm (Sun – M), 10:00am – 7:00pm (Tu – Fri), 10:00am – 6:00pm (Sat) Website: http://www.perogi.ca/ You know what they say – when life gives you lemons, go buy perogies. Wait…that’s not how the saying goes, but when my wife and I were in the west end and looking for food […]
Address: 460 Bronson Ave, Ottawa, ON Hours: 11:30am – 8:30pm (Mon – Sat) Website: Facebook only Located on the corner of Bronson and Gladstone, I had been awaiting the opening of Africa Slow Food after seeing signs about their charcoal-grilled chicken, and African and Caribbean food. Making the walk up the street on a cold winter evening, it was only upon […]
Address: 1448 Prince of Wales Dr, Ottawa, ON Hours: 11:00am – 3:00pm (M); 11:00am – 7:00pm (Tue-Sat); 11:00am – 4:00pm (Sun) Website: http://infomeryenda.wixsite.com/kainpo Green factor: Compostable and recyclable containers; garbage and recycling bins only Tucked away in the commercial expanse and generic, concrete apartment buildings that populate the corner of Prince of Wales and Meadowlands, lies a food truck. […]
Address: 25 Hamilton Ave N, Ottawa, ON Hours: 11:00am – 3:00pm, 5:00pm – 9:00pm (M-Sat); Sunday the same but opens at noon Website: Yeah, but it’s way out of date. Check their Facebook for quasi-accurate information. Green factor: Styrofoam containers In this day and age of technological hocus pocus, it’s rare to see a food truck vendor that isn’t actively on […]
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: 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: 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 […]