Ottawa Foodies

The Butcher (Kyle) and The owner (Brian) came into our chef class at Algonquin. Kyle is the coolest guy and he is so knowledgeable about meat, its inspiring how passionate he is about his job. They brought in a huge pig cut in half and they talked about the different cuts and let students help out with cutting it. It was so gross but so cool! I haven't been to their shop yet but I plan to soon. I think its great to have local, skilled, knowledgeable people working in this city and its up to us to support them to keep this trade around!

I don't get down to Aubrey's nearly enough.

Kudos to Brian, Kyle, et. al.

LOL! Captain Caper - if you need tips on making your own duck confit I can help you out anytime - much cheaper!

Went in to Aubrey's the other day to check out their Duck Confit. It turned out to be $18 per vacuum packed leg.

When the one of the staff asked, "Can I help you ?", I responded with "I just bought a 649 ticket and came in to dream."

The entire staff, and the two customers, all laughed.

I don't like eggnog... except this one. I don't know if its the nog-to-egg ratio but man is it good.

I didn't know about the bottle deposit... to bad, I could have saved up the bottles and brought them back to exchange for another eggnog.

Personally, its by far and away the best eggnog I've ever had. I've never made homemade eggnog nor have I had ever had homemade eggnog so I can't say how it compares to others.

I would like to add a comment in light of zymurgist's comments on the deposit.

With regards to the deposit. I have bought the eggnog lots over the years and what I was always told, by Aubrey's owner (Brian if I remember correctly) was that Cochrane dairy had a deposit on the bottles to ensure they got them back as they have ran into shortages in the past. They now use plastic bottles but up until Christmas 2006 (I think it was then), they used old fashioned glass milk bottles. At that time, I believe the deposit was $3 per bottle.

I am a semi-regular at Aubreys - meaning I buy almost all of my good quality meat there (say 15-20 visits per year), and it would strike me as odd for them to do what zymurgist recounted. I am not doubting at all that someone said that, I am just curious if it was one of their core employees or a new or temporary one. It would be very out of character for them in my experience. .

Cheers

I bought some of this when I was down buying my thanksgiving turkey this year. Yup, it's really good, but I cannot say it was significantly better than anything else I've ever had. Then again maybe I'm just not an eggnog feinschmecker. One thing I really didn't like was there is a $1 deposit on the container. The guy told me straight up that it's just a ploy to get me back into the store to return it. Pretty crappy if you ask me. And it didn't get me back, it just got me upset about the whole thing.