And make sure you stop in Thyme & Again , a cute food shop that's half heat-and-eat take home food, half dessert cafe. They're also Ottawa's highly-praised upscale catering business- something to keep in mind! We bought an Art-is-in Bakery baguette, some coffees and a couple of desserts to take home (as we walked in just as they were closing). Since we were going to C&J's for dinner within a couple of hours, we didn't have a chance to try the desserts yet. Especially since we happened to visit the Ottawa Bagelshop, who had what I believe to be the only proper macarons in the city. Unfortunately, they were from Christmas time and had been preserved in the freezer. They kind of tasted like freezer, of course, and although cute and delicate, were filled will strange, supersweet, almost nauseating goos. The pink ones with raspberry filling were lovely; the chocolate was passable; the other three (passionfruit?, lemon-coconut, and possibly some incarnation of pistachio?) were notsomuch. That's what happens when you pay full price (ouch) for frozen macarons- you can't fully appreciate desserts that have been frozen for almost a month. My excitement got the best of me! Even so, I could tell from what little I could taste that my first-time-ever macarons that i made over Christmas break (what is it with macarons and Christmas?) were much more almondy and pleasant. Which leads me to conclude that either I don't really like macarons (and feel very much a peasant because of it), or that my impulse-buy of frozen, cute but filled with far-too-sweet goo macarons were not true macarons. Either way, I am left with the satisfaction of having filled my single homemade batch with a dreamy, dark chocolate ganache that worked as a filling between two incredibly sweet macaron halves. They could have been cuter, but not too much tastier.
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