Where can I get a tasting menu in Ottawa?

• Atelier

  Little Italy · Seven courses, $250 per person, Wed–Sat

  Chef Marc Lepine's restaurant serves nothing but its tasting menu — a seven-course format built around molecular-gastronomy technique, where each course is treated as its own small piece of design. Roughly three hours, with an optional wine pairing; no vegan option.

• Antheia

  Somerset West · Tasting menu, $250 per person, chef's counter plus two tables

  Chef Briana Kim's fermentation-focused follow-up to her acclaimed Alice. The menu runs on the restaurant's own fermentation calendar rather than the seasons, built from housemade misos, garums and shoyus, with a chef's counter that looks straight into the kitchen.

• Beckta Dining & Wine

  Downtown, Elgin Street · Five-course tasting menu, $140 per person, closed Sundays

  One of Ottawa's longest-running fine dining rooms, offering both an omnivore and a plant-based tasting menu alongside sommelier-guided wine pairings and a cellar built up over two decades.

• Restaurant e18hteen

  ByWard Market · Five-course chef's tasting menu, $140 per person

  A heritage-building steak-and-seafood room that updates its tasting menu weekly rather than seasonally — a way to taste more of what the kitchen does beyond the à la carte steaks it's known for. Wine pairing available.

• Aiāna

  Downtown, near Sparks Street · Nine-course tasting menu, $165 per person

  Chef Raghav Chaudhary's tasting menu frames Canadian terroir through a multicultural lens, and now runs a full vegetarian version alongside the classic at the same price — the whole table can book together and mix the two. A Wine Spectator–recognized pairing is available for $90.

Tasting menus like these fill up — Atelier and Antheia in particular are often booked weeks out — and most ask the whole table to order the same menu.