Some food photos from Ottawa

I finally got around to sorting out some food photos from Ottawa.

Pubwells on Sussex.

We sat out on the patio and it was a lovely atmosphere.  I had the sausage, mash and Yorkshire.  I can only tolerate pretty bland food at the moment, and they seasoned the mashed potatoes with a LOT of black pepper.  So I couldn't eat much of those.  Otherwise it was good.  Hubby said they had a great selection of beer; he had two Largers so it must have been okay.  Hubby got a wrap and fries.

The name of this place was neat; Scone Witch.  We went to the one on Elgin, and honestly it's not the easiest place to find.  The staff were Eastern European and super nice.  The "scone" was good; we got cheese scones with butter.  Now as I am from the UK, I would call this scone more of a biscuit.  As it is so much denser and reminds me of the biscuits you get in the States.  It's all to do with the type of flour we use on this side of the ocean.  The scones in the UK are so much lighter and fluffier inside.  It was all good though.

On one night we were super tired.  Sat down in a pub for a meal and basically they forgot about us. After waiting 30 minutes to be served, so we trudged back towards our hotel. All week we had been passing a restaurant, so we called in there to have a Pizza.  El Taco De Oro is a hole in a wall place.  Super nice, pretty busy and serves great food.  Again, I have to be careful what I eat, so wasn't brave enough to try the Mexican food, so had a pizza.  The pizza's were good and hubby had a Mexican Beer.  Would eat there again.

Now I only took these photos because the display was so colourful.  This was in a bakery in Byward Market and they are decorated sugar cookies.  I think they were around $5 each.  I didn't get one, but was impressed with the decorating skills.

I know I mentioned this in another post, but I could have eaten Bobino's Bagels everyday.  The soup was one of the best I have ever had.

So if you are in Ottawa, these are some places where you can't go wrong food wise, in my opinion.

Some days you wonder what you're going to see next!!

Saw this the other day while driving to Gatlinburg!!  It's a motorized version of a red wagon, very neat.  I took the photos as we were passing in the car.  Had hoped they would stop at Sugarlands, but they went on through.

What a neat thing to travel in on a lovely day.  Not good for your hair though.

When we went to Gatlinburg the other day for the Arts and Crafts Trail we stopped at a restaurant.  There was a cart outside and the roof was really interesting with all the moss on top of it.  Shame it had artificial flowers in the middle of the cart.  Also won't mention the name of the restaurant (though look closely at the cart!!) as we did not enjoy the meal we had here.

Looked up and saw this hornets nest in the tree beside us.

I have to say we have had a mixed bunch of meals while away, more bad than good I am afraid.  But will say when they were good, they were really good!!!

It could only happen to us!

I don't know why but some days I think we just attract the strangest type of people.  On our way down we stopped at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Tennessee to have a bite to eat.  We were minding our own business and eating our lunch when one of the servers came up to dh and asked what was on his t-shirt.  Dh said it was from the World Cup.  After seeing the blank expression on her face I said Soccer.

This is the t-shirt:

She went on to say "she thought it was maybe something to do with the theory of evolution and how we are all descended from people in Africa and thought he was brave wearing that around here?"  At our blank expressions she moved on.  Honestly it is a t-shirt from the 2010 World Cup Soccer, nothing more, nothing less!!!

Today we planned our day so we would have lunch at the Old Mill Restaurant in Pigeon Forge.  It is a very popular place and serves great corn chowder and corn fritters.  I love them and was really looking forward to them.  We are seated and across the way are a group of four people.  The one guy facing me tells me I am wearing an unusual t-shirt.  This is it:

What pray tell is unusual about this t-shirt?  So I say a couple of words back to him and he continues the conversation about my bloody t-shirt.  In the end I jokingly said stop looking at my chest, but no he carried on.  He was with his wife and two other guys and were older than us.  One of the other guys managed to change the conversation, thank goodness, but they continued to chat away, even when we got our soup.  They finally shut up when their meal came. 

Just after that our meal came and we had both ordered meatloaf with mashed potatoes and those bloody awful green beans.  What is it with everyone down here that they have to have green beans with everything?  Anyhow, we had just started eating our meal when the guy started to choke.  Then he vomited and coughed and coughed and coughed and vomited and vomited into his cloth napkin.  

Now despite not looking you could hear what was going on.  Suffice to say not only did I not eat my green beans, but barely touched the rest of my meal.  I was so disappointed, as I was looking forward to this meal; but I just couldn't stomach it. It turns out the guy had a Hiatus Hernia.  Oh well what can you do?

We finally got some rain, so fingers crossed it will cool down some.  Here is a view from our cabin looking towards Pigeon Forge.