An Introduction to Us!

Hello, and welcome to Eatsinthe613’s first blog post! You may know us from Instagram and Tiktok, where we’ve been posting our favourite food finds in Ottawa for the past year and a half. We’ve started this blog as a way to connect even further with our audience and share some more long-form content about the Ottawa food scene. We also wanted to introduce ourselves to you, put faces to the content you’ve been seeing. 

Eatsinthe613 is run by us - Annie and Katie! Eats started as a fun way for the two of us to spend time together as a couple, and document all of the cool food experiences we have had. Over a year later, it has turned into a real passion project for us, and we’re starting to fine-tune our content and curate some fun lists and suggestions for our audience. Eats also really aligns with our professional goals, with Annie in Journalism and Social Media and Katie in English Lit. It has helped us keep our writing and content skills sharp in a way that really interests us, and we hope to continue to do this in the future!

We both grew up outside of Ottawa and moved here for university: Annie at Carleton University, and Katie at the University of Ottawa. Annie graduated last year with an Honours Bachelor of Journalism, and Katie is looking forward to graduating this fall with a Bachelor of English Literature. Since graduating, Annie has worked in communications for festivals and non-profits, deepening her love for Ottawa’s tourism and food and scene. 

Throughout high school and university, we have both worked in the food industry. Annie worked in restaurants in Ottawa for the past few years as a server and bartender, and Katie has worked as a barista and is currently a baker! We both love learning the ins and outs of the food business and think we have a great perspective from both the customer and service sides. Eatsinthe613 has been a great way for us to experience all that Ottawa has to offer and try all kinds of cuisine! 

We have built up a good stock of restaurants that we highly recommend in Ottawa, which you can find if you browse our Instagram or TikTok pages. We also have a handy Restaurant Masterdoc that can help you quickly find exactly what kind of food you’re looking for. We have every restaurant we’ve tried categorized by neighbourhood, price, cuisine, and occasion. You can select what you are looking for in a drop-down menu and find restaurants that fit your needs!

While we do have quite a few options, we are always looking for more food to eat and experience! On our About Us page, there is a form that you can fill out to recommend new places to us! Please feel free to reach out; we love connecting with you and hearing other people’s opinions on the Ottawa area’s food scene.

With the launch of the website, we are hoping to add more longform content to our arsenal. You will still be able to find all of our recommendations on our Instagram and Tik Tok pages, but we also want to continue doing blog posts about bigger events, curated lists of recommendations, and more!

You can find us on Instagram and Tik Tok @eatsinthe613, as well as our Restaurant Masterdoc on Airtable, and now at our website as well! We will have links to as much as possible on both our social media pages and the website to keep everyone as up to date as possible. With this expansion we hope to reach more people and offer even more content about the Ottawa food scene!

We hope that this gives you a deeper insight into us, how @eatsinthe613 came to be, and what we hope it can become. Use our contact form to send us some suggestions, or just to say hi! Make sure to follow us and turn on notifications to be the first to find out where we’ve been eating lately!