Ottawa Foodies

amazing bagels, great chocolate selection and decent prices. you can get a lb of Callebaut dark chocolate (voted best baking chocolate by Cook's Illustrated) for $8.50 here, rather than $12 at Truffle Treasures. there's also a fair selection of cheeses, flavored oils, and teas. some of their more interesting offers were summer and winter truffles (the mushroom) and seasonal macarons from Art-is-in bakery. this is a much-needed store in this city!

A great place to eat! All sorts of low-brow and high-brow foods. Gourmet deli selections with olives, pickles, solomon-gundy (pickled herring) and more. Excellent selection of chocolates, teas, coffees, and of course their bagels! The owner Vince is also extremely friendly, and treats his employees exceptionally well (my brother-in-law used to work here)

Two words: Dufflet's Pastries.

When I need a fix, this is where I go. This shop carries Dufflet's from Toronto. There is one dessert in particular, which is a chocolate creation that looks like it has a chocolate rose on top of it made out of some of fondant, gilded in gold. Remove the flower and microwave the iced chocolate cake/brownie thing underneath for 30 seconds. The icing melts into the cake and it turns into this gooey, delicious mess. It sounds disgusting, I know. But suspend your disbelieve and try it.

Oh, and the bagels here are decent too.

I have to agree about your comments on the bagelshop. I think they make the best bagels in town, beating out Kettleman's. They also sell fine cheeses like Le Riopelle de l'Isle, etc. They ALSO sell Art-is-in breads which are fantastic. The only other bread that rivals Art-is-in breads were from Fred's Bread in Kingston, but I haven't been there in years... anyway, the cheese, tea, chocolate, oil, vinegar, baked goods, make this place my special spot for picking up weekly treats.

I love this establishment. Watching it grow over the years one had to worry that that their mainstay of traditionally cooked bagels would suffer. I was wrong.

I can spend hours in this place.

I see that the Bagel Shop is now advertising their connection to St-Viateur in Montreal. Can't get a much better pedigree (with apologies to Fairmount supporters). What I like about the Bagel Shop is that they obviously have a pretty high turnover, so I almost always end up getting fresh, hot bagels when I go there to purchase them (or perhaps I'm just lucky).

If you have never tried an authentic Montreal-style bagel this is the place to do it. Easily rivals Kettleman's. They sell them at my local Loblaw's in their massive Kosher section (College Square)

Authentic Montreal style bagels. The owner's Brother in Law runs one of the bagel shops in Montreal, and that's where he learned to make them. Real wood oven bagels ... mmmmmm! Wide selection to choose from.

This place sells Le Riopelle de l'Isle, Le Douanier, La Sauvagine, etc. all those Quebec cheeses that taste so darned good. They also sell a good variety of their own cream cheese spreads for bagels.

A toasted montreal-style bagel of your choice (I always go with whole wheat) with bacon, eggs, lettuce tomato and mayo. Actually that combination is called "The Eggcellent". There are about 20 combos of bagel subs on the menu including things like smoked meat, salmon and more. I just deleted my previous review and am reposting with a photo this time. Check the forums for another yummy shot.

Yum! I have these a couple of times a month and have been for years.

Tried some from the Market a few years ago; bought some at Ottawa Bagel, Wellington Street - EXCELLENT. Tried some from Nicastro's, Wellington. Back to OttBag: other 2 were like thin sour cream; OttBag's was thick, creamy, not especially sour, ingredients were cream, bacterial culture (like Two Fat Ladies used to say: all you need are bugs and cows).
I suspect the product on the shelf at OttBag was farm-direct even if probably pasteurized and not (re-)created later from cream, buttermilk/yoghurt and 24 hours to brew.