Ottawa Foodies

Word around the cubicle jungle has it that today is the last day of JP's at the Merivale and Hunt Club location. Guess I know where we're going for lunch. I'll be the one wearing a black armband.

Confirmed!

I was at JP's today, and overheard them chatting with a customer regarding the move. I didn't get all of the details, but think they are planning the move in the mid to late June timeframe.

I saw some signage at Baseline/Clyde behind the Petro Canada station announcing that JP Fries will be moving their stand there!

Saw the "Open until Christmas. Really!" sign and asked about it. The cashier noted that a recent change in bylaw allows them to be open year round, so if all goes well in December they're planning on staying open Jan/Feb as well!

I can confirm that they're open on weekends, because my girl and I totally had a large poutine for lunch yesterday ;)

The sign they've got up says that they're going to be there "until Christmas. Really!"

Does anyone know whether this is open on the weekends or not? I'm guessing not. It's the only time I can go that far.

Had a poutine today at JP's and it was good as usual. There was loads of cheese curds, almost as much cheese as fries in the box! The fries seemed a but on the crispy side compared to normal, but were still quite tasty.

But sssshhhhhh.... let's stop promoting it. The lunch hour line-ups are getting too long! ;-)

Like pizza is to the Newport Restaurant, poutine is to JP's! This little clogged artery piece of heaven is poutine fantasia. I LOVE JP's poutine, best anywhere, period.

My favourite Poutine in town. Lots of cheese curds and a nice light gravy.

Back to the standard Medium Poutine. We just had to go twice in one month, seeing as they close for the winter on Dec 1. I had my real camera with me this time so the picture looks phenomenal at full resolution -- great desktop wallpaper! ;-)

If you love poutine you owe it to yourself to try this place!

After wondering about it over many visits, I bit the bullet (and a whole lot more) and tried the belly busting "Sausage Poutine." I went with the Polish sausage option pictured here. It's a Medium Poutine with a slight reduction in fries to make room for the well-distributed pieces of a chopped up sausage.

Very tasty, but it throws off the carefully balanced ratios of fries to cheese to gravy. I ran out of fries first, then sausage and cheese, and was finally left with a little puddle of gravy. Next time I'll go back to the plain Medium Poutine!

This is most likely the best poutine in town. Excellent fries, loads of cheese curds and the perfect amount of tasty beef gravy. The fries are properly soaked but still manage to stay a bit crispy in places. As you reach the bottom and eat your last delicious fry, you'll notice that there's exactly one cheese curd and a little bit of gravy left to go with it. This is the epitome of poutine perfection!

OMG addictive!!!! Just watch out for the bomb dropping Seagulls!!!