Ottawa chef Raghav Chaudhary of Aiana, shown at the 2024 Canadian Culinary Championship, is one of 13 chefs taking part in the Ottawa Citizen's 2025 best restaurants event on Oct. 6. (Credit: Ashley ...

So what if local food lovers can’t claim smoked meat or bagels as their own? The list of dishes that we can be proud of is a long one. Plenty of Ottawa restaurants and food vendors have must-order ...

There are some cities you return to because they keep calling you back. For me, Ottawa has always been one of those places. I first visited as a teenager on a school trip, and years later, the smell ...

Black Tartan Kitchen in Carleton Place made the OpenTable list of the Top 100 Restaurants in Canada, an annual selection ...

Masanori Arai was 19 years old when he picked up the magazine that would inspire him to move to the other side of the world and then spend the rest of his life in Ottawa. It was 1979. Arai was in a ...

OTTAWA — Cancun Mexican Restaurant in Ottawa has been serving authentic Mexican food since September 2019, filling a need for the food in Putnam County. Juan Delgado and Sergio Delapoz both own Cancun ...

On Elgin Street, Kyoto Yakitori serves skewers of grilled meat, while Takumi BBQ is a grill-it-yourself Chinese eatery on Merivale Road. Yannick LaSalle, who has worked at Les Fougères for more than a ...

When it comes to running a successful restaurant, there’s no secret ingredient behind it but, rather, a recipe that’s deceptively simple, like homemade whipped cream. You need more than just a love of ...

Erin Gamelin started scouring the internet for a cost-effective version of the outdoor dining pods she’d seen photos of online when stricter public health measures shut down indoor dining in Ontario’s ...

Food writer Heidi Klotz is bullish on the restaurant scene in Ottawa. Klotz, who writes for Ottawa Magazine and Edible Ottawa, has lived in the city for 21 years. She said over that time the city's ...