Dining Out: Citizen restaurant critic Peter Hum's best bites of 2017

In 2017, I scoured from Stittsville to Aylmer to Wakefield to Orléans for delicious, memorable dishes, and I didn’t do too badly at all. 
Of course, new, upscale restaurants in Ottawa’s downtown dining districts — places such as Sur-Lie and Oz Kafe in the ByWard Market, Stofa on Wellington Street West and Orto Trattoria in the Glebe — provided thrills.  
But further afield, there was also La Maison Conroy in Aylmer, plus a wave of more casual eaterie