Ottawa Foodies

I love this place!! The date squares are amazing! They have the most bad as# meat slicer around as well. The cinnamon buns are great too.

I'm now living within walking distance of this place, so am pretty biased, but. It's well worth a stop for day-tripping foodies.

Notable:

Bakery goodies. Apart from some good breads, there're sticky buns, cookies (chewy and large), butter tarts, etc, etc; all highly recommended.

A little deli. The cheese, from a little Ontario producer whose name escapes me right now, is excellent. The deli-salad-standards are surprisingly good.

Eggs. Oddly enough. See separate entry. Get the eggs.

Plus local goodies; jarred what-nots, and some frozen entrées from thevillagekitchen.ca/ -- have tried veg lasagna; good, very rich and creamy. My 2nd-last visit found ramps, aka wild leeks, for sale.

(Apologies for the blah stolen pic.)

Eggs here are from the Bekings Poultry Farm
(Oxford Station, Ont)-- "All hens roam free. Wholesome all natural eggs from healthy grain fed chickens. Eggs the way they're supposed to taste."

Much better than a city supermarket egg, but without the hassle of tracking down a faded "Eggs for sale" sign at the end of a dusty gravel road. They're so stunningly fresh and tasty that poaching them is an entirely different thing from poaching the more easily found sort of egg. I am no egg expert, but these really do stand out.

Web site:

www.bekingseggs.com/