Salvatore Rinaldo didn’t exactly leave a trail of breadcrumbs for his sons, Tony and Sam, to follow. It’s more like a path that was coated in breadcrumbs, fried, and covered in marinara. Who wouldn’t follow that path? He was, of course, the founder of the original Salvatore’s New York Pizza (now Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria). Tony […]
The Good Food Emporium
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The Good Food Emporium closes this Friday
The Good Food Emporium closes its doors Friday after “eight years, nine months and 10 days” as a gathering place and restaurant. The space is being passed on to Sam and Tony Rinaldo—who have been sharing a kitchen with the Good Food for the past five months while cooking for their mobile businesses T-Dogs and […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Good Food Emporium Kim Stacey is overjoyed to get the news that her little Eastern Passage restaurant’s fish cakes have yet again taken this title. But she’s not surprised. “I just think that we really work hard to keep them consistent, now […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner The Good Food Emporium Bronze Winner jane’s on the common Emma’s Eatery owner Kim Stacey says she wasn’t expecting her fish cakes to be such a big hit. “It was just a small addition to the menu because I wanted something to celebrate my Newfoundland heritage on my dad’s […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Good Food Emporium With favourites like the roasted chickpea or sweet apple salads, the lentil burger, the rice bowl, the vegetable curry and the spicy vegetarian stirfry, The Wooden Monkey offers an array of creative choices for produce-loving patrons. While it’s won this distinction […]
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To Gaza with love
OTTAWA – 1977-1990 I come from a Zionist household. I learn from an early age that anti-Semitism is always on the rise, that another Holocaust is always just around the corner and that no matter what, Israel is always right. That’s a lot for a kid to handle. Twice a week, after regular school, I […]
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Good Food reopens
Though it was delayed by issues with propane delivery, ovens and chimneys, you’ll now find former Gottingen Street eatery The Good Food Emporium (2186 Windsor Street, 422-3150) open at the corner of Windsor and Duncan, right next to the Bluenose Laundromat. Burritos, salads and those delish chocolate chip cookies, here we come. Related Stories
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Good Food Emporium’s last week on Gottingen
A staple on Gottingen for years, back to when it was Bob & Lori’s Food Emporium, the Good Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen Street, 422-3150)is expecting to move to new digs at the corner of Lawrence and Windsor streets, just next to the Bluenose Laundromat, next Friday, May 27. Related Stories
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Good Food to move
The Good Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen Street, 422-3150) is pulling up sticks. The beloved north end eatery is moving into the space recently vacated by George & Lito’s—former home of The Pyramid Cafe and Cafe Vienna—at 2186 Windsor Street, just below Cunard. Good Food queen Carol LeBlanc reports that the move was prompted by the Gottingen landlord raising the rent on the current space but not doing any work to improve it. Also, the location over on Windsor is well trafficked. Gottingen Good Food will close at the end of May and open in its new location the first week
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Dinner is over at The Good Food Emporium
Some bad news for fans of The Good Food Emporium’s dinner menu: The kitchen’s closed. About six months ago the 2179 Gottingen Street eatery decided to expand beyond its always-popular lunch hours to serve dinner Wednesday through Friday. The menu featured several Korean dishes, as well as Jamaican jerk tofu and Thai green curry—in all, […]
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Good Food, indeed
I was almost ready to believe The Cure’s Robert Smith had somehow looked into a crystal ball and forecast this rainy week in 2009 when he wrote “Monday you can fall apart,” because the events of Tuesday broke my heart. Tuesday was the sad day that two of my pals and I decided to head […]
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Good Food goes international
The Good Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen, 422-3150), so essential to the lunchtime diets of many of us Coast staffers, is now offering a whole new dinner menu, available from 5-9pm, Monday to Friday. Calling it “a local take on far away food,” dinner is prepared by multitalented chef Virgil Muir, who you may know from […]