A look back at a controversial year for Ottawa's restaurant scene

Ottawa’s restaurant scene dished up a lot of stories in 2017. Unfortunately, a few of them were hard to stomach.
Most unpalatable was veteran Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael’s admission in late October that he had sexually harassed three female co-workers with inappropriate comments while cocaine and alcohol abuse fuelled his behaviour. Carmichael, who has a stake in the highly visible downtown restaurants Riviera, Datsun and two El Camino locations, said that he had entered reha