The Confessional

Stop #2 on Sheena's Farewell to Ottawa Tour.

(That's Joe, btw in the picture -->>).


Oh, how Pub Italia shall be missed!
200 Beers, great Italian food, decent Scotch and wine list. Decor must surely violate at least one Papal Encyclical.

Doing a group outing? Book the Confessional. Room for up to 10 people, if you're friendly. Comes with own closing gate and a red light switch to tell your waitress when service is needed.


New addition last year is the Abbey, featuring a selection of Belgian beers perhaps rivaled only by Vineyards in the Byward Market.

Really can't do better than Pub Italia as an apres-travail local. Sheena will miss it as much in the coming months as she did back in 2002, when she was forced to avoid it for 8 consecutive weeks because of the night of the "Incident".


Note to my readers: Little American blondes travelling on expense accounts for the first time in their lives really ought not suck back a half-dozen 10% Belgian Chocolate Christmas Beers in less than an hour...