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I posted this on OttawaFoodies This was a great event! Well organized, friendly, for a great cause and delicious. Correct me if I make mistakes, hard to remember everything, but here's the rundown on what was served: Stop 1 - Zaks. Breakfast poutine. Homefries, cheese curds, hollandaise sauce and a sprinkle of paprika. Not really all that good. Tasted fine, but wasn't really a poutine. Stop 2 - Courtyard Restaurant. Thin crispy fries, duck gravy, duck confit, foie gras torchon. Tasted amazing. Was a little disappointed that the foie gras was revealed to be in the dish only after I'd started eating (ethical issues), but this was by far my favourite poutine of the day. Stop 3 - Garlic Corner. Normal poutine. Thin fries, cheese curds, gravy. Average. Didn't register though when compared to the others on the crawl. Stop 4 - Murray Street. No fries, instead spätzle, shredded mariposa duck confit, roast duck gravy, Glengarry “Fen Squeaks†cheese curds. I didn't like the spätzle, but everything else in the dish was super delicious. Beautiful restaurant too, and Chef Mitton explained the origin of the dish and how the restaurant works. Stop 5 - Dunn's. Thin crispy fries, some sort of gravy, small chunks of smoked meat and curds. Very salty. Average. Stop 6 - Island Flava. Thin crispy fries, gravy, curds, and jerk chicken chunks. The jerk chicken made this poutine super delicious. I will definitely have this again. Stop 7 - D’Arcy McGee's. Advertised as a Guinness poutine. I had to leave (who knew eating so much poutine would take longer than expected, hehe) so I didn't try this variety. Paola from C'est Bon Cooking did a great job of leading the tour. Thanks to everyone who put this together. Great times.

My liver is screaming for this marathon to be over. Hollerado -> Jimmy Cliff -> Weezer -> VICTORY!! ( -> Trailer Park Bingo) -> SLEEP!

Julia was awesome to help a huge Hold Steady fan buddy of mine who came from Toronto on a shoestring budget hoping to see the show for a bargain price. And look what happened! Good vibes! He had a blast btw, thanks again Julia!

Kinda looks like Mr. Bean

Congrats to Andrei Markov on becoming a Canadian citizen today. Well done.

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Dube, right?

Miche or Bobby Powerchords? I think Miche just has one kid so far. Pretty awesome thing to do with your kids!

pretty sure it's gonna be small servings, folks.

One more tidbit before I sleep... According to the Citizen, Alejandro Escovedo and his band played a 40 minute lunchtime set on Sparks St. Anyone witness this?

COOOOOOOOOL! You know those 12 year old kids that play sweet covers on Booth St while the Fest is letting people out? Arcade Fire went and played with them after their show the other night! Pretty awesome. Here's some photos Photos from DavidForcier.com

nice, I can get behind that pick.

Well, Islands was terrible (perhaps Nick caught on to the fact that nobody knew they were playing). Woodhands was fun, Konono1 was borrrring (went into tent, same boring groove lasted for over ten minutes so I left), Crowded House wasn't as good as I expected..... Butttttt, Old Crow Medicine Show was fantastic! So, all in all a good night. Need sleep. Damn you Bluesfest.

Bluesfest tweeted that seating for Escovedo / Cash is sold out but some standing room might become available.

No, it's Islands tonight. Confirmed. Nick Thorburn. Ex of the Unicorns. Bluesfest fucked up the schedule and name. I want them to issue a news release to clarify it like they did yesterday for Santana but they're just a small Cdn indie band (as is Woodhands and the headliner) so BF probably doesn't care.

Another scheduling change, since it was released and never corrected since: Tonight's line-up on the Subway stage: Islands – 6:30 p.m., Woodhands – 8:15 p.m., Marianas Trench – 9:30 p.m.

He knows there's only 4 faces on Mt Rushmore, right? Hehe. Of course it's just hyperbole to make a point but I still thought it was dumb. Tough crowd.

So, any bets on The Musical Box playing Return of the Giant Hogweed?

I posted the list in the quote above, no Smoke's but I need to try that place soon. I've heard many conflicting reviews.

Yeah, last year I did bluesfest every day, came home, wrote a bit of the review of the day for this site, got up at 6, worked til 5, tried to finish the review from the night before, then repeated that 11 times.  Totally exhausting. If you're not working during the fest it should be pretty doable to submit some writing daily.  Just my two cents.  Shitty that you feel run down though zero.Â

And now a text version of that story

Ottawa Citizen writers not impressed with tent

So I'm registered in a poutine crawl this Saturday afternoon. Pretty excited. Plus it's an event for charity so there's TWO good things going on. Here's where the crawl is going: Only 30 spots available. Click here for more details and for links to sign up

But at least you and Mike and RobL(?) had a pretty awesome view of part of the show, right?

Marriage clinched