Alcohol in Ottawa 2011 – Ottawa Insight

Beer royalty rules across the river

On a quiet residential street in Aylmer, Que. – fifteen minutes from Ottawa’s Island Park Bridge – the Beer King

For decades, people have tried to have alcohol delivered to their doorsteps. Many remember the old times when taxi drivers

Nothing says summer like kicking back on a patio, sipping a drink and enjoying the Sun. In fact, marketing studies

For Ottawa’s craft brewers, making beer is more often a labour of love than a cash cow. With high capital

On a day in mid-December, someone walked into The Beer Store with a load of empty returnables, unaware their everyday

When Caprese Ristorante Italiano, Ottawa’s first completely gluten-free restaurant, opened last year, Chef Lino Marchi had a hard time finding

John* is a 28-year-old bartender working in Ottawa, Ontario. He has worked for six years in the industry in two

In Ontario, when you want to buy a bottle of wine for your dinner party, you only have one option.

In a residential area just past the South Keys shopping center in Ottawa’s south end, is a quaint, two storey,

It’s crawling through the city of Ottawa, and spreading at an alarming rate. The pub crawl—a half-day drinking event where