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Eat Here
This Year
The city’s top food critic surveys the scene,
highlighting 20 must-visit restaurants
Some offer a boisterous evening at the bar, others are comfortable old timers,
innovating gracefully to keep up with new trends. Still others can only be referred
to as one of a kind, their original cuisine tied to the personality of the chef.
Ottawa is brimming with inventive chefs, endlessly experimenting with all manner
of delicious ingredients. Here, restaurant critic Anne DesBrisay selects 20 restaurants
for this year’s must-visit list

This page: Soif Le Bar à Vin de Véronique Rivest
Opposite: The Whalesbone Oyster House

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Five restaurants with individualistic spirits offer up meals that reflect
the unique personalities — and tastes — of the chefs at the helm
Atelier

Navarra

Soif

Murray Street

LITTLE ITALY

BYWARD MARKET

GATINEAU

BYWARD MARKET

I could have tucked
Atelier into the “Out
of Sight” category, because surely no other
restaurant s