Pizza Bouquet

Nana Saveurs Kreyol et Caribéens sits on Beaubien Est in Rosemont, which is not a street that trades in hype or destination dining — and that suits this place perfectly.

Saint-Henri has a way of producing restaurants that feel genuinely local rather than locally themed, and La Toile — sitting on Saint-Jacques in the thick of the neighbourhood — sounds like a textbook example.

Masakali Indian Cuisine on Sherbrooke West is the fifth location of a kitchen that built its reputation in Ottawa — and that track record matters.

Pizzeria La Focaccia sits on Mont-Royal Est in the Plateau, the kind of address that sounds like every other neighbourhood pizzeria until you look a little closer at what's actually going on.

Le Chaska on Avenue Lincoln is built on a premise that has no right to cohere: a North Indian kitchen operating under the same roof as a live brick oven producing old-style pizza.