Ottawa Foodies

Tempted by the ramen bowl (hard boiled egg floating in a bowl of soup? count me in!) I dragged the boyfriend down here for a taste.
I had the ramen, and he had one of the teriyaki dishes. The food was great, and the service was amazing.
My main praise, and what surprised me most, was the salad dressing. It was considerably lighter and less creamy than any other ginger dressing I've tried. It was amazing! Like the difference between coleslaw with the traditional vinaigrette and the gross mayo version that's so common. I can't wait to go back sometime and get a bento box.

I've been there once, tempted by the delicious-looking sample platter picture posted here. While the pricing was decent, the food was bland and monotone. Definitely will not be back.

Definitely above average. The food is delicious, the ambiance is pleasant, the service is great and the pricing is decent. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who enjoys Thai food in a heartbeat. Perfect type of place to take a date.

I've been here a few times. The food is solid and very consistent. It's a very small place, but I've never had to wait for a seat. Great service, as well.

As a follow up->
I didn't even realize that I was making it an annual event to say Dunn's is the sh!ts. Anyhow, it is.

I am normally not this basic when it comes to reviewing the food, service, or atmosphere at a restaurant, but Dunn's SUCKS. Period. If you want to know why, go waste your money.

Had dinner at BT last Friday. Each time I dine there, my stomach is always very pleased.

We managed to get a cozy table with no reservations around 8 pm. The server was nice. The drinks weren’t that great but the food was delish!

I tried to order the Thaifu Vegetable Bowl but was told that they had run out of tofu. So I opted for the Butternut Squash Agnolotti. The presentation was beautiful. The quantity was more than I needed. The taste was rich, creamy and just melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

My friend ordered the Chicken and Tiger Shrimp Jambalaya. As the menu says, it was spicy! She said the dish was very good.

Nothing better on a hot summer day then to suck the juices out of a seals eyeball.

we love Chez Lucien.I have been to this pup since they open but still i'd like to call the name "Gerry's place"
Food is amazing and you can feel healthy. Big picture of James Joyce i adore him. Great atmosphere and nice server.

My husband and i had a lunch today.
We heard about Petit Bill's has a reputation but food was disappointed.
I started with beets salad that it wasn't reasonable price, yellow beet was over over cooked and i paid $14.
We studied at Le cordon bleu, many friends recommended and they likes Lobster poutine.
It was soggy fries with broken sauce. I could taste any of Mascapone flavors. It was pretty gross.
I believe that ratings can be very deceptive.
But waitress was nice otherwise pricey and nothing special.

The double Vera Burger. Man these burgers are incredible. Tons of seasoning inside. I guess it's a sort of steak spice mixed into the meat. Service was slower than fast food but still faster than a sit down sort of place.

This place is right next to Wallack's in Bell's Corners. In the same store as the "butchery" where the have great stuff as well. I got some new york steaks there the other night. They must have been 1.5 inches thick.

here is the steamed rice noodle with BBQ pork. side of hot sauce. I can't get enough of this stuff. i think maybe it's a love it or hate it sort of thing.

I was at Thyme & Again this morning and saw that they carry Art-Is-In Bread now on Monday's-which is great!!!!

On a side note, I also saw that they carry Gluten Free bread (I Think it's multigrain)- I believe Thyme & Again bakes it on site.
They seem to be coming out with more and more Gluten Free items, especially in the baked good section. Most baked goods that are gluten free don't really taste good- but I have a friend who is Celiac and loves every gluten free item that comes out of Thyme & Again- never a bad experience!

No, the slicer is not broken. Your experience was typical. For an unknown, ill-advised reason, Dunn's serves smoked meat in thick chewy chunks. The flavour is there, I found it good juicyness wise, but for some reason thin-sliced just isn't part of the deal. Too bad, cause otherwise I'd show up more often. The take out deal isn't a bad price for the amount you get. They do have super cheap passable breakfast.

Well, finally crossed this one off after eyeing it for some time. Service was excellent, amuse bouche was quite enjoyable as well, which included excellent olives, bread and a free-form type of salami rillette.

Had the Confit Pigs Cheek App, Gnocchi and Duck Confit. Unfortunately, Confit Octopus was sold out which was a slight bummer, but the other dishes were excellent and quickly made me forget the missing cephalopod. Presentation is a strong point and there are a lot of complimentary flavours going on in each plate. A lot of Asian flavours were present in the dishes and on the menu generally which was a bit surprising to me.

The other pasta dishes looked excellent as well, I have a feeling that this place might be doing some of the most interesting pasta dishes in Ottawa.

Top it off with a bite of desert on the house and I can say that the Murray Street restaurants (including THE Murray Street Restaurant) are 4/4 in my books. I won't put them in any order of course!

These are the open-ended and meaty egg rolls, similar to what you might find at Welcome Back or Golden Palace, albeit a little smaller. I think they were $1.35 each.

We've had take out from here a few times, mostly because they're in our 'hood. I never remember it being particularly great but tonight's craving for fake Chinese food meet with unusually poor results. Here's what we had:

* Egg Rolls (very good)
* Mushroom Chow Mein (not really terrible, but there was an unusual astringency that seemed to come from the mushrooms)
* Wong's Palace Fried Rice - the usual soy sauce rice with a few chunks of beef, chicken, and shrimp.
* Butterfly Shrimp - although they smelled like pure heaven in the car on the way home, these turned out to be a failure of epic proportions. $13.95 gets you 8 giant elongated chicken balls, each containing a smallish, butterflied, and very overcooked shrimp and a piece of bacon. Not crispy bacon, but bacon that was placed raw alongside the shrimp prior to being dipped in batter. The bacon is undercooked and the shrimp is overcooked, and the whole lot is blanketed in a thick bready chicken-ball batter.
* Steamed Rice (complimentary) - entirely unnecessary given our fried rice order, and entirely unwanted given its mushy blandness.

That said, I won't rule out dropping in once in a while for an egg roll or two!

Had the smoked meat sandwich platter. The meat was generous and piled high as it should, but came in thick slimy slabs, not dry cured and thinly sliced. Did they break the deli slicer and couldn't afford a replacement? The rye bread was stale and definitely not Rideau Bakery quality, and the chintzy quarter of a dill pickle on my plate was soft and bland, without any hint of crunch that a proper Kosher dill should. I won't be going back.

As Jagash mentioned, The Piggy Market is now the exclusive distributor of Art-is-in's Beau's Sourdough bread.

The loaves are 12 inches in diameter, and use 1 liter of Beau's per loaf. It's pretty crazy. We picked a quarter loaf (selling for $7.50!) at The Piggy Market on Saturday, and enjoyed it with raclette.

It's airier than most sourdoughs, and wasn't really conducive to sandwiches or much other than dipping into oil, or eating as an open faced sandwich with a knife and fork.

However, it had a very rich flavour to it. If I could eat that much bread without the help of nine friends, I'd buy it more often.

I find that her unique flavours are really quite good, but we both the dark chocolate chevre last night, and we weren't thrilled.

It tasted like normal chocolate ice cream, and wasn't particularly tangy in its goat's cheese. I'm not sure why (maybe it's the goat's milk?) but this one also seems to be more like ice milk in texture. It didn't taste like dark chocolate either.

Peanut butter salted caramel and roasted marshmallow are unique, and I think that's what makes them such great sellers.

But to be honest, neither this nor the French Vanilla was anything to write home about.