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A Capital Cooking Adventure in Ottawa
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Finding Your Inner Chef in Canada's Beautiful Capital City
4 days | 3 nights
Pricing: $978 (For One Person, Double Occupancy)
Availability: Year-Round Based on Your Travel Dates
Package includes:
- 3 Nights, Lord Elgin Hotel - Deluxe - For One (Dbl Occ)
- Deluxe Breakfast Buffet Each Morning
- Fairmont Signature Afternoon Tea “101”
- 5-Course Tasting Menu
- Food Tour of Ottawa's Byward Market
- Master Cooking Class at C’est Bon Cooking
- Lunch at Le Cordon Bleu Bistro and Tour of the Cooking School
A Capital Cooking Adventure in Ottawa, Canada
Just an hour’s drive from the US border lies Canada’s Capital city hosting more than 35 festivals each year and a ton of places to visit with fun things to experience. Whether it’s taking high tea in the ultra elegant Chateau Laurier, or discovering the world’s largest skating rink, the Rideau Canal, you’ll learn and truly be a part of what the culinary scene is all about in Ottawa today. Your food walking tour in the Byward Market will give you an insight into the history of the city’s people as well as it’s delicious and varied specialty shops and products available today. We’ve scheduled it early in your visit so that you can return later to visit your favorites again. We’ve selected a Cordon Bleu trained chef for your cooking class; only the best will do for you, our pampered guests. This is a walkable as well as beautiful city and bikes are also available for rent everywhere, with miles and miles of bike paths. If you dare, go on one of the Haunted walks when the sun sets, to learn some of the darker tales of Ottawa’s past. During the summer of course, the pomp and ceremony of the Changing of the Guard on Parliament Hill is not to be missed. There are many, many choices that will have you wanting to return again in another season.
Lord Elgin Hotel - Deluxe - For One (Dbl Occ) mapmore lodging info
Located directly across from Confederation Park and the National Art’s Center, right in the heart of downtown Ottawa, is the landmark Lord Elgin Hotel. The 355 guestrooms and 2 suites reflect elegance with the luxury furnishings and tall picture windows, and granite bathroom countertops with polished nickel accents. Your Elgin Class King Room offers the ultimate in comfort with a corner location providing views of the park from large opening windows. Your Bed features crisp white linens, a pillow menu and your room has a 42” flat screen TV. Enjoy complimentary freshly brewed hot drinks from the Keurig coffee/tea maker as you read your daily delivered newspaper. Also included is high-speed internet, local calls, robe and slippers, bottled water, mini-fridge and an umbrella for those rainy days.
Deluxe Breakfast Buffet Each Morning
Rise and shine with a full deluxe breakfast comprised of fresh juices and fruit, coffee or tea, pastries all carefully crafted by their in-house chefs. Select from daily baked muffins, chocolate croissants, cinnamon buns, delightful scones to start and follow it with delicious eggs benedict, omelets, bacon, cheeses, charcuteries, and much more.
Fairmont Signature Afternoon Tea “101”
As our guests, you will have the very special opportunity to experience a century old tradition– afternoon tea in Zoe’s Lounge. Enjoy fresh finger sandwiches, delicious scones, small pastries and a selection of personalized teas. Do chat with your server, as he performs tableside, an informative and interesting way to learn the history of taking tea and the difference between ‘high tea’ and what most people refer to as ‘tea’. Curious? Enjoy this special welcome to your luxurious home for the next three days.
5-Course Tasting Menu
The owner began his career with esteemed restauranteur Daniel Boulud, and it has only gotten better since then, if possible! At Beckta, Ottawa’s top rated restaurant for the past three year’s in a row, you can experience a blind and seasonally based tasting menu showcasing products that have mostly been grown locally and sustainably. The chefs here truly care about what they serve and it shows in how it is prepared and indeed how it was acquired. The team actually spends time working on sustainable farms, learning how the produce, meat and poultry they buy are grown, raised and harvested, giving them a respect for the land and the food it produces. The result is an incredible product that you are truly privileged to share with them. Enjoy the best of the best; a true culinary adventure, paired with the finest wines. This will definitely set the stage for your Canadian Culinary Experience.
Food Tour of Ottawa's Byward Market
Join in a foodie’s romp through the Byward Market, learning about the evolution of Ottawa’s food scene through the award-winning restaurants and wonderful ethnic and fine food shops located in the heart of Ottawa’s oldest neighborhood. Be treated to great conversation, enticing aromas, scrumptious flavors and a riot of colors in meticulously arranged food displays. Meet chefs, producers and food artisans who give this area so much of its character, and experience “the Market” as the locals do, feeling like a food industry insider, sampling some of the best there is available.
Master Cooking Class at C’est Bon Cooking
The main goal at C’est Bon is to put the fun back into the kitchen and to share the love of French cooking with you. They will give you the skills and techniques that you need to continue cooking when you return home armed with your recipes and new found confidence. Under the direction of Condon Bleu Chef Andree Riffou, you will learn to prepare a variety of dishes that will become gold standards in your repertoire. The menus consist of no-fail French classics that you will turn to again and again. Your mouth will begin to water as you smell the aromas rising up from the pans. Following the cooking, join your fellow chefs, and bite into your first succulent morsel, infused with wine and herbs. . . you smile with pride as you enjoy your meal together. Bon Appetit!
Lunch at Le Cordon Bleu Bistro and Tour of the Cooking School
An informative tour of the Cordon Bleu Cooking School has been arranged for you this morning. The chefs may choose to earn diplomas in Savory Cuisine, Pastry, or both. They may then obtain their Grand Diploma by apprenticing in the kitchens and learning how to run an actual restaurant with all it’s rules and regulations, etc. for a further 14 months. Following your tour, you will have a fabulous lunch at the Bistro at Signatures, part of the Cordon Bleu School. Located in an historic mansion, just steps from the Ottawa River, the Bistro offers a true touch of France with winding staircases and crystal chandeliers giving it an old world elegance. Here, there is a combination of bistro style and haute cuisine in a relaxed ambiance. The menus, which change weekly, showcase an outstanding selection of local seasonal ingredients with bold creativity and artistic presentation.. Come and experience the magic!