Anne DesBrisay

The award winning author of three editions (2004, 2008, 2011) of Capital Dining, a Guide to the Best Restaurants in the National Capital Region, Anne has written about restaurants in particular and food and travel in general, for a number of papers and magazines and for this blog. She contributes regularly to Ottawa Magazine, Taste & Travel Magazine, Harry Magazine and has written about Ottawa’s “power restaurants” for Macleans Magazine, and its Valley restaurants for CBC Radio. Her latest book, Ottawa Cooks, will be published in 2016.

For twenty years (1993-2012) Anne was the restaurant critic for the Ottawa Citizen.

Anne is senior judge at Gold Medal Plates and a well fed member of the national judging team for the Canadian Culinary Championships.

In 2013, Anne won a Gold Award from the Ontario Hostelry Institute for outstanding contributions to the hospitality, culinary and food industry within the printed world and the electronic media.