Ottawa & Quebec Gourmet Adventure - A Foodie's Honest Review 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 Ottawa Culinary Chronicles 📍 Cocotte Bistro 🤨 🍽 The Good, The Bad & The Greasy: Appetizer All-Stars: 🦐 Crevettes Pernod - Plump shrimp swimming in an anise-kissed cream sauce that made us order extra bread just to sop it all up 🐮 Beef Tartare - A revelation with its horseradish kick that elevated the dish beyond typical "fancy burger meat" territory Main Course Mishaps: 🦆 Cassoulet - A duck leg so fatty it could lubricate a bicycle chain, buried under a salt mine of bacon and sausage 🥩 Steak Frites - Cooked perfectly medium-rare but seasoned with what tasted like existential dread 💸 Damage: $160 (We'd pay $140 just for those starters again) 🍦 Sweet Redemption: 📍 Piccolo Grande 🤩 🍋 Lemon Sorbet - Like biting into a Sicilian lemon grove, with just enough sweetness to balance the pucker 🥜 Pistachio Gelato - So luxuriously thick it should be classified as a building material ✨ Pro Tip: They use Bronte pistachios from Sicily and you can taste every penny of that investment 🥯 The Bagel Revelation: 📍 Bobino Bagel 🤩 🍐 Chicken Brie Pear - A symphony of textures and temperatures (warm chicken, oozy brie, crisp pear) that belongs in the sandwich hall of fame ☕ Matcha Latte - Tasted like someone waved a tea bag over some warm milk and called it a day Bobbiccino - The cold brew with velvety foam that restored our faith in caffeine 👨‍🍳 Behind the Scenes: Watching them hand-poach bagels in honey water while you eat is better than ASMR 🏰 Quebec City Quest 🐰 Le Lapin Sauté 🤨 🧅 French Onion Soup - So salty it could preserve a medieval sailor, with bread so soggy it qualified as a sponge 🐇 Tout Lapin Canard - Surprisingly delicate rabbit confit paired with duck that actually made us understand why the French love game meat 🍮 Crème Brûlée - The sugar crust had the structural integrity of a politician's promise 💸 Tourist Tax: $138 (Worth it for the bragging rights of eating bunny) Coming Soon: Montreal's most hyped spots put to the test - from smoked meat wars to bagel battles! #TheHarshTruthAboutFrenchCuisine #GelatoWinsAgain #BagelsBeforeBae