Category: Food & Drink
Harvey & Vern’s Lime Soda flavour at Brown’s #supportlocalstittsville
Brown’s Independent on Stittsville Main Street has about 50 cases of the new Harvey & Vern’s Lime Soda. When I went in on Saturday it was right at the front…
PHOTOS: Creative cakes raise over $2,400 for Stittsville Public School
This fundraiser really takes the cake. This year’s annual Cakewalk at Stittsville Public School raised $2,455 and featured 286 cakes. Parents donate the cakes (both home-made and store-bought), and then…
Farmers’ Markets in nearby Kanata and Carp open this weekend
The weekly farmers’ markets in Kanata and Carp both open for the season this Saturday, May 9. The Carp Farmers’ Market is located at the Carp Fairgrounds, about 10km from the Carp…
Harvey and Vern’s introduces new Lime Soda flavour
Harvey and Vern’s, a Stittsville-owned Ottawa soft drink manufacturer, unveiled their fourth flavour today: Lime Soda. It’s available at a limited number of locations until May 10, including the Cheshire…
Upscale fish tacos and poutine on the menu at new Kanata restaurant
(Above: Franchise owner Aaron Gillingham in front of the new Joey’s Urban Kanata on Hazeldean Road. Photo via Facebook.) A new restaurant specializing in fish tacos and poutine opens next…
Cabotto’s hosts Opera Night on April 30
(Above: Vince Pucci and his son Perry outside of Cabotto’s on Hazeldean Road.) Cabotto’s restaurant is hosting their first “Night at the Opera” on Thursday, April 30 featuring Ottawa tenor Alain Paquette. “We’ve…
PHOTOS: Meet Al Caughey, Stittsville’s maple syrup “sapelier”
(Above: Stittsville resident Al Caughey tastes his tree sap as he boils it down in his back yard.) Al Caughey calls him self a “sapelier”, not a sommelier. The Conductor Street…
Gluten-free cookie maker bakes up expansion plan
Joanna Zappia, the owner of Stittsville-based bakery Dolci, has big plans to expand her gluten-free cookie business. She’s launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to help fund the expansion.
UPDATE: Stolen toboggan from Cheshire Cat has been located
From the Cheshire Cat Facebook page: We would like to notify everyone that we have heard from the thieves that stole the toboggan. They have also donated $100 in the…
Stittsville’s One Eight Bakery gets called for icing
We saw these treats posted on Twitter earlier this week and had to find out more. They were made by Caitlin McMahon at One Eight Bakery, a new venture based in…
Thieves slide away with stolen toboggan from Cheshire Cat Pub
UPDATE APRIL 15: It’s been located… Posted today on the Cheshire Cat Pub Facebook page: On March 28 – Earth Day around 9:24pm – The “Steamwhistle” toboggan was stolen from…
Kungfu Bistro re-opens after weekend break-in
Margarita Chen from Kungfu Bistro sent along this note. They were closed on Sunday due to an overnight break-in. We are OPEN today! It’s business as usual with a lot of…
Kungfu Bistro closed Sunday due to break-in
The management at Kungfu Bistro asked us to share this update with our readers: We had a break-in last night and so to ensure the health and safety of our…
Raising the bar: Hummingbird brings a global focus to chocolate production
QUICK FACTS Hummingbird owners Erica and Drew Gilmour (above) met eachother in Afghanistan and moved to Stittsville nine years ago. The chocolate is sold at about 30 stores in…
POWER OUTAGE: Kungfu Bistro cooks up soup by flashlight for charity event
We got an email this afternoon from Margarita at Kungfu Bistro. They are trying to cook 30 litres of soup for Great Bowls of Fire, a charity event tonight to…