Pictures from Boston Canada Travel
If you’re traveling internationally with your iPhone, BEWARE. It’s not the phone charges that will kill you, it’s the international data roaming rates! While I was recently in Canada on business, I received the following email from AT&T. “Our current data charges based on data use of 475.83 MB since leaving the US are: $7,137.45! [...]
The Lord Elgin Hotel is an elegant centrally located hotel in the heart of downtown Ottawa. Ottawa’s Winterlude takes place literally across the street at Conferederation Park, and the National Arts Center is minutes away. The hotel is within easy walking distance of a host of restaurants on Elgin Street or nearby Byward Market. Guests [...]
While most people head for the tropics in winter, some nordics thrive on chilly fun. Since Canadians spend 8 months of the year in sub-zero temperatures, they choose to make the best of it with numerous Winter Festivals for everyone. Winterlude is Ottawa’s version, coupled with the world’s largest skating rink on the Rideau Canal [...]
Ottawa’s Byward Market reminds me very much of Boston’s Quincy Market, also known as Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Quincy Market, built in 1824-26 was a place where merchants and food vendors could sell their wares right from the dock. The first Byward Market building was constructed in 1826 from private financing by Colonel By, famous for [...]
Ottawa is setting a new trend in opening restaurants with ZenKitchen. With a completely vegan menu, no dairy, meat or animal by-products are on their very unique menu. Regional-seasonal-organic are the buzzwords for ZenKitchen, with an impressive local Ontario Wine List to boot. Why choose vegan? According to Dave Loan, Owner, he wanted a least [...]
Imagine going into a butcher shop where all the cuts are from local farms, the condiments are local, even the patés are homemade. Paddy Whelan, the owner of Murray Street chose this style of restaurant because he wanted the type of food you look for in the fridge after midnight, when looking for a snack. [...]
Steve Beckta has done it again, this time with a much more casual, fun restaurant than his first success, Beckta Dining & Wine. No more tablecloths, just a sheer red canopied ceiling to add a touch of class. The decor is modern retro with stainless steel curved Italian stools in front of an open kitchen [...]
While most New Englanders know Montreal and Quebec City as within driving distance of Boston, Ottawa, 90 minutes further southwest by car, is well worth the trip. Ottawa is Canada’s capital, and its 4th largest municipality. Because it is the capital, visitors can expect a culturally rich city for a city of its size. Ottawa [...]
Wining and Dining our Way through Ottawa By Jeanine Buckley I stared in disbelief at the work of edible art placed before me. Described as a “Deconstruction of an Andulusan Gazpacho”, not only was the presentation amazing, but the eclectic combinations surprising—lobster on watermelon? A tomato and cucumber sorbet? I sipped a puréed Gazpacho [...]