Category Guides – food and drink

The best girls night restaurants in Ottawa with a room worth showing up for and enough energy that the evening builds on its own.

The most visually compelling girly restaurants where the room is as much a reason to go as the food, the cocktail menu is treated seriously, the setting makes you want to...

The best girly brunch spots worth getting dressed for and that have a serious cocktail menu...

Paris-inspired dining rooms with tableside pastry towers, floral rooftop terraces in Little Italy, cobblestone courtyards hidden behind...

From the Château Laurier's canal-view buffet to rooftop terraces above the ByWard Market, a waterfront pavilion at Dow's Lake...

A menu worth getting excited about and an atmosphere that feels like an occasion rather than just a meal...

A restored banking hall with vaulted marble ceilings, a Château Laurier terrace overlooking the canal, a wine room on Somerset that changes its menu every week...

The best Ottawa restaurants with a view, ranging from upscale hotel terraces above the Rideau Canal to cheap NCC-operated riverside spots...

Ottawa's romantic brunch options range from hidden courtyard patios that feel genuinely removed from the city to waterfront tables and quiet neighbourhood bistros...

The most beautiful Ottawa restaurants, from dramatic downtown interiors to waterfront patios, hidden courtyard draped in greenery, and Instagram-worthy spaces...