Spaghetti bolognese...

Where is a good restaurant in or near Ottawa to get spaghetti with meat sauce?

Last night I suggested to maaseru that we should go out for supper. So we did.

She said she had a hankering for spaghetti. I have a fondness for spaghetti with meat sauce, a.k.a. spaghetti bolognese. Now, we usually go to the Colonnade for Italian food, and they do have spaghetti with meat sauce, but it isn't as good as the spaghetti with meat sauce that they used to have, which was the kind of meal you dream about for a week afterwards. We decided to go elsewhere.

I remembered that the Canal Ritz doesn't have spaghetti with meat sauce, so we went to Carmello's, where we had a coupon, and I know they have crème brulée on the menu for dessert - though last time I was there, they didn't have any.

We discovered they didn't have spaghetti with meat sauce either, though they had many delicious-sounding pasta dishes, and we both ended up ordering from among their specials - not a morsel of pasta in sight. Yummy, though.

And as for dessert.... They once again didn't have crème brulée. Do they ever, really? Are they just pretending?

So, on a whim, maaseru and I went to Tucson's at Bank and Hunt Club, and had their crème brulée cheesecake for dessert. Delicious - though maaseru said the textures were better last time she had it. I'd never had it before.

I remember Peter Cochrane telling me once, long ago, that the best crème brulée in Ottawa was at the Newport at Wellington and Churchill. This was shortly after he'd written a book about restaurants in Ottawa. I figured he should know. And you know, I still haven't been there. I think I'm too afraid to discover he was wrong. And the chef has probably changed half a dozen times since then....

Browsing online, I see that most Italian restaurants don't offere spaghetti bolognese. In fact, they hesitate to offer spaghetti at all. Why? I love spaghetti, and spaghetti blognese is a classic. I see that Tosca lists spaghetti bolognese on the menu. Has anyone been there? Is it good?

I suppose we could just wander down Preston St., searching.

So does anyone know where in Ottawa to get a good spaghetti bolognese? Or crème brulée?

What would I never write?

After some hesitation, I decided to take this meme from mad_jaks, jadesfire2808, and smithy161:

List at least three stories you think I will never ever write, and I may or may not write a snippet of one of them.