March 2021

  • Whalesbone – Ottawa – February 2021

    Whalesbone – Ottawa – February 2021

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    Al McFarland
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    Experience Rating  4.5/5 Our return to normal began on a cold and snowy February night with a trip to Whalesbone on Elgin Street in downtown Ottawa. This was our first in-restaurant dining experience since the Fall of 2020 and there was no way that a few inches of snow was going to stop us.…

  • Les Fougères – Chelsea – August 2020

    Les Fougères – Chelsea – August 2020

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    Al McFarland
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    Experience Rating:  4.8/5 Way back in August (seems like forever ago) we had the privilege to attend a 7-course collaboration dinner at Les Fougères restaurant hosted by two of the hottest chefs in the Ottawa Region – Yannick LaSalle and Imrun Texeira. Chef LaSalle is the resident chef at Les Fougères and was the…

  • Tales from our Backyard Garden: Part 1

    Tales from our Backyard Garden: Part 1

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    Al McFarland
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    With Spring just around the corner (despite having 2 feet of snow on the ground), I thought it would be fun to talk about backyard gardens. Last summer one of the home DIY projects that we took on was the construction of a vegetable garden. We had been wanted to do something like this for…