Ottawa - Zen Kitchen

Last but not least, for our final holiday meal, I took Jay out to Zen Kitchen a vegan restaurant in Ottawa. Again, by this time I was very lazy, so the photos are kind of crap sorry. However, the food was wonderful - perhaps not quite as good as Fressen in Toronto, but not far behind - and probably much more required, as Ottawa really isn't the mosst vegie-friendly place.
Jay had the Thai Lemongrass Curry for main.

While I had the Sopé - basically a mexican syle dish with tortillas, black beans, mushooms, chipolte-tequila sauce, salsa, guacamole and rice. Yummo!

For dessert, we had a tasting plate which was not as good as the main courses. Peacan pie was great. Chocolate brownie was a bit too full on for me. And try as I might, I just cannot appreciate vegan cheesecake!

Ottawa - Urban Pear

I went to dinner again in Ottawa (Glebe) at the Urban Pear restaurant with three of my favourite people, and had an amazing evening.

The photos really don't do it justice as I couldn't be bothered to take my camera - but as usual the food was fresh and tasty, and the service was brilliant. The Peargaritas were also heavenly and must be made! (tequila, triple sec, pear juice, lime).
 We started with an antipasti plate to share - with all ingredients sourced locally and just beautiful.

Jay then had his final salmon meal...and I had a fabulous vegetarian terrine type dish, with potatos and a sweet cherry tomato salad.

It is strange having a favourite restaurant which is more than 30+ hours travelling time from home, but this is one of them :)

Quebec City - the food

Two more cities to go and then I can stop annoying you all....Quebec City was one of my favourite places on our holiday, but food wise, not so great due to my dietary restrictions. They appear to have a lot of cute bars/restaurants where they basically sell the same things, most of which I can't eat, and omlettes and tomato/mozarella salads get dull after a while...perhaps I really was in Paris afterall!

But QC did have a branch of Commensal and amazing vegetarian buffet restaurant that is in Monteal as well. Phew!  You basically go in, get a tray, get what you want, and then they charge you by weight. Its like Sizzler but actually good and you don't get sick.

Plus the best thing in QC is really just to go shopping at the markets and sit on a balcony drinking champagne and eating cheese (life is tough). There is also lots and lots of different beer for boys...including with knut on the glass :)

Montreal - the food

Vegan/vego and find yourself in Montreal? go to Aux Vivres....my mobile phone photos really sucked, but the food was incredible and the staff lovely (and English speaking).  Jay had the Mumbai plate and I had a yummy bowl of vegan chilli (which thankfully did not have meat in it, like most of the "chilli" in the USA urgh).

There is a courtyard out the back which you can sit outside as well. I could give up cheese if all vegan food tasted like this. I can't believe they even do home delivery - Australia please catch up!

(BTW there are some awesome goth and rockability clothing shops just around the corner as well).

Montreal - brunch

Well clearly its not only the USA that has ridiculous portion sizes, this was our first brunch in Montreal...and I came back thinner. It really doesn't make sense! (mental note: tubs of M&Ms at work are not good for you).

We also had brunch at a place call Eggspectation. I just couldn't resist due to long history of Milfull/Annabel egg jokes. I had a really yummy  Egg-Chilada, basically an omelette with jalapenos and salsa, which I accept looks pretty grose in the photo, but it was yummy and spicy :)

Prince Edward Island - the food

I will always remember Prince Edward Island for my first ever gluten free waffles at our B&B...OMG yum! They clearly felt guilty for serving me bread and bacon the day before, but it was worth it.

I will also remember a beautiful lunch that Jay and I had at a place call Shipwright's cafe. The cafe (and bakery) are in a farmhouse built in 1880s, sort of in the middle of nowhere, near a town on PEI believe it or not called Kensington. The food is so fresh its amazing - you even eat looking out at their amazing vegetable garden. Its not vegetarian, but there are lots of vegetarian and gluten free options. For the first time on our trip, I got some GF bread to start with as Jay got the standard basket of bread that you get at restaurants all over USA/Canada. It was a scone and so light and beautiful and un-GF like. Went perfectly with a fresh strawberry frappe thing...

Jay then had Vegetarian Chilli Tostadas and I had a GF vegie burger. Serving sizes were ridiculous, but it was all so fresh and tasty. Highly recommend this place. And the bread smelt just fabulous...

Halifax - the food

Next stop on our journey was Halifax, a much smaller and gorgeous town in Nova Scotia. You wouldn't think the food here would be fantastic...but we still had some really yummy meals. First off, we thought that some pub grub was appropriate, and went to the cute little English pub a block away from our hotel called the Henry House. Here we started off with the amazing artichoke and spinach dip that you fine in most places that I grew quite in love with but made me fat. I had a yummy vegie currie soup for main, while Jay had an almost artistic looking salmon sandwich.

Unfortunately, I was quite sick in Halifax so we didn't get to explore too much here, but we also had a lovely meal down on the waterfront at a cafe/bar called....Highly recommend this place.

You can't get much better than fabulous cocktails, good vegie pasta/polenta in the sun, looking over a goregous harbour with good company. I must work out how to make their white sangria though, absolutely perfect. It would be fabulous for spring/summer drinks in Canberra. It had the following ingredients: Bianco Vermouth, Limoncello, Fresh Strawberries, Basil, Homemade Lemonade, a splash of Prosecco.