Restaurants

The Barley Mow

Recommend:
Pequinos
Cobb Salad
Chicken Wings-Mild
Chocolate Fudge Cake
http://www.barleymow.com/

MURRAY STREET kitchen wine charcuterie

Highly recommend:
Pulled pork
#3 restaurant in Ottawa (tripadvisor)
http://www.murraystreet.ca/menu_lunch.html

Reuben's

Recommend:
Tuna Melt
http://www.reubensdeli.com/large/indexB2.html

Fratelli

Recommend:
insalate-arugula
pizze-genoa
http://fratelli.ca/

HEART AND CROWN

Experience genuine Irish hospitality and entertainment with a visit to the Heart and Crown.
Moderately recommend
IRISH STANDARDS-CHICKEN CURRY & CHIPS
http://www.irishvillage.ca/byward/menu.aspx

SUBWAY

Recommend
Subway Melt
http://world.subway.com/Countries/frmMenu.aspx?CC=CAN&LC=ENG

DQ

OREO BLIZZARD
Recommend for all cookie lovers!
http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/eats-and-treats/menu/treats/blizzard/

Vittoria Trattoria

Ranked number 9 out of 856 on Trip Advisor!
Excellent food, excellent service, excellent location.
I recommend choosing the soup of the day, as it comes as a nice surprise. I also recommend the marinara pasta, basic yet complimented by it's own unique taste!
http://market.vittoriatrattoria.com/Menus/Lunc...hMenu/tabid/3708/Default.aspx

Gabriel PIZZA

Dine-In
As an appetizer, I definitely recommend the Fried Zucchini's (18pcs) if you're willing to indulge in a little (or alot) of grease, fat, and calories. As for the main course, I would not recommend the Beef Donair Platter as I found the beef processed rather than fresh. Maybe the chicken would have be...en a better choice!
http://www.gabrielpizza.com/dine.php

DQ

I surprisingly recommend the mint oreo blizzard. I thought that the mint may ruin it, but rather it added a little something extra!
http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/eats-and-treats/menu/treats/blizzard

NEW EDINBURGH

Pub & Eatery
Again, for an appetizer, I chose the soup of the day, and again I was pleased! As for the main course, I recommend the chicken pot pie, a creamy combination of chicken breast and veggies baked in a homemade crust.
http://www.newedinburghpub.com/Menus/PubFare/tabid/3687/Default.aspx

EUROPEAN

LITTLE ITALY/PRESTON
Gasthaus LINDENHOF
268 Preston Street
**1/2
Welcome to Ottawa's only German restaurant! Lindenhof has been around for over three decades, and even though the restaurant is in a new location, its age is evident in the sombre furniture and low lighting. The atmosphere is reminiscent of a modern gasthaus; cozy and rustic yet sleek and sophisticated. Start with a complimentary green salad with rounds of pickled cucumber and carrot, a smooth garlicky dressing, and soft shreds of red cabbage. For something more substantial, tuck into a hearty dish of pickled herring fillets, still wearing their skins and twisted into loose rosette shapes. The fish is light-tasting, but what's with the winter tomato wedges for garnish? Better off with the dilled sour cream and a blush-coloured apple relish that also arrive on the side. Mains include perfect rouladen: each one a tender, succulent strip of beef rolled around warm ground bacon and softly cooked onions and pickle, served with al dente carrots and a generous pile of sweet-tart red cabbage cooked the traditional German way, with onions, allspice, cloves, and black pepper. You can't leave without trying the best apple fritters in town! Catering and take-out also available. Stairs into restaurant. Open Sunday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Starters $5-$13, mains $17-$28.
http://www.thelindenhof.com/

SUSHI UMI ***

Only the vibrantly painted chairs - all 10 of them - remind that you that just last year, this poky little place was a Mexican restaurant. Now owned by a gracious husband-and-wife team, Sushi Umi fills a small gap in the West Wellington neighbourhood for raw fish snacks. It does a brisk takeout trade - standard party platters of sushi for the book club, say - and though it offers only the usual suspects of fish (and other stuff), the product is fresh-tasting, the rice is tangy, and the soybean wrappers are crunchy-firm. Many visit Sushi Umi for its daily hot special. Miso soup to start, then perhaps a bento box of teriyaki chicken - the glazed meat tender, not too sweet - topped with a skewer of grilled shrimp. This comes with rice, two delicate gyoza, two pieces of California roll, plus a green salad piqued with fresh ginger dressing, gallons of green tea, and a cold drink. This for $12.95. Not too shabby, that. One step. Open Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner. $11.95-$14.95. 1311 Wellington St. W.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/250/1454338/restaurant/Westboro/Sushi-Umi-Ottawa

THROUGHOUT THE CITY
The WORKS
Gourmet Burger Bistro
Six Ottawa Locations
Orleans - Manor Park - Glebe - Westboro - Hunt Club - Kanata

The WORKS is Ottawa's favourite place to dine...no doubt!! The little Gourmet Burger Bistro has been named "Best Burger" in Ottawa 8 years in a row, yes I said EIGHT years!! With over 68 wild & crazy Burger toppings, and 7 sensational Burger Patty choices from Ground Beef, Certified Organic Beef and Ground Turkey; to health conscious Fresh Chicken Breast, Veggie Burger, Fresh Portobello Mushroom Cap and the Fresh Low-Fat Domestic Free-Range Elk...WOW that's selection!!

How about those world famous Tower-O-Rings that have kept Ottawa coming back for years...and Shake, Shake, Shake! That's right! We serve over 50 different classic shakes including a Peanut Butter-Oreo-Caramel blast that you will never forget! The WORKS is Ottawa's only real neighbourhood Burger joint.

http://www.worksburger.com/

HOT SPOT

Southern Comfort
Welcome to Jean Albert's. (Don't you dare pronounce it the French way - those are English names!) Already known in Hallville, out Osgoode way, for its southern hospitality, this restaurant has recently grown up and moved to Ottawa. Co-owner LeRoy Walden wants to acquaint this town with victuals he recalls his grandmother in Georgia cooking for the whole congregation. So at Jean Albert's, you'll find deep-fried chicken (crisp and light), sweet pulled pork, meaty, beef chili, corn pancakes (called sweet water cornbread), collard greens, sweet potato pie, and buttermilk pie. One or another of those dishes just has to make you feel good. For LeRoy intends you to leave all worries behind you, there at the threshold. Thank goodness we can count on the other owner, LeRoy's wife, Jennifer Walden. Someone has to be organized, keep things on the straight and narrow. Upstairs, there's music. On the third Friday of every month, dress up vintage-style and dance at the Cotton Club Lounge. Time to just relax, honeychild, and loosen your tie. Why here's Ethel Waters now, singing "Oh Daddy." Best get ready to rumba! Jean Albert's, 495 Somerset St. W.
http://ottawafoodies.com/vendor/1530

JAPANESE

KIKO SUSHI
***
Visiting Kiko is like stepping inside a dream. Your maitre d' is wearing sunglasses in a softly lit room. A white sculpture wall swirls up to your left, sparkling lights swinging above. A bamboo fence separates the dining room into two spaces, one draped with a crisp crimson kimono, the other open to the bar, which is adorned simply with a basket of fresh mangoes. Most of the food is out of a dream too. Wild salmon sashimi nestled against a mound of angel-haired daikon. A pile of panko-crusted vegetables: slender asparagus, a whole hot mushroom, a sickle of acorn squash, and delicate onion rings. Skewers of tender yakitori chicken basted with sweet tare are ambrosial with a bottle of ice-cold Kirin Ichiban for sipping. Poached spinach leaves sit in a pool of light, lemony soy sauce. Spicy agedashi tofu and a bowl of grilled chicken with egg and onion are comforting but plain, bringing you back down to earth. But the "freestyle rolls" are named by a flight of fantasy- Crunch and Munch, Sakura Spider, Rapture Roll - and all are fresh and balanced. The Kracken roll is an epic sonnet: a whole stuffed squid, sliced into rings, purple tentacles proffered alongside the body. After all this, tempura-fried ice cream and crepes stuffed with mango and strawberries seem a tad boring, but both are well prepared. To drink, order Asahi (dry Japanese beer) or share a bottle of silky chilled sake. The servers are equipped with an excellent sense of humour and a love for the menu, although they sometimes forget to bring out this or that. A small suggestion: invest in fancier chopsticks. It seems a crime to use such common utensils here. Wheelchair accessible. Lunch Monday to Saturday (11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.), dinner Monday to Saturday (5 p.m. to 11 p.m.), Sunday (4:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.). Appetizers $1.95-$11.95, sushi/sashimi $4.95 and up, rolls/mains $4.95-$19.95). 349B Preston St.
http://www.kikosushibar.com/