Move over Zagat, here comes cheapeats ottawa, the next in the best selling restaurant guide series.

The cheapeats team is looking for your favourite Ottawa area breakfast, lunch and dinner spots where you can get great food, cheap.

Ottawa, ON - October 8, 2003 - Not just cheap, the cheapeats team of Ottawa-based restaurant insiders, writers and serious eaters, are looking for the best quality, most interesting high value restaurants in the region. Ottawa, with more restaurants per capita than almost any other city in Canada, is the second city for this best selling restaurant guide series, which started with cheapeats toronto.

cheapeats restaurant guides recommend good, inexpensive restaurants which fit the price range - breakfast under $5, lunch under $10 and dinner under $15.

Restaurants are considered only if they have been recommended through the website (www.cheapeatsottawa.com), word-of-mouth or by a cheapeats reader, contributor or celebrity. No restaurants pay to be in the guide, and the researchers and reviews pay for their own meals.

The 2nd in the best-selling cheapeats restaurant guide series published by Plethora Press, cheapeats ottawa is looking for recommendations for best value, good quality restaurants the Ottawa region has to offer.

With completely independent word-of-mouth style restaurant profiles, recommendations for the best value meal and rates for budget, food quality, cleanliness and style, cheapeats guides profile restaurants ranging from greasy spoons to ethnic fine dining where you can get Breakfast for $5, Lunch & Brunch for $10 and of course Dinner for $15.

Visit www.cheapeatsottawa.com and recommend your favourites so they are considered for inclusion in the first edition of cheapeats ottawa. Or check out the restaurants already being considered for cheapeats ottawa, and comment on them (e.g. "that's NOT a cheap eat", "get the ginger chicken it's amazing", "endless cups of coffee w/ breakfast and they let you sit for hours")

cheapeats ottawa - will be on bookstore shelves early 2004.

cheapeats restaurant guides have been featured in Food Services & Hospitality Magazine, CP24's consumer report, CBC's Ontario Today, Metro Morning, Here & Now and Information Morning, the Halifax Herald, Toronto's NOW Magazine, FAB magazine, CityTV's Breakfast Television, CFRB, and ABC's Dining Around with Gene Burns.

cheapeats restaurant guides are now in their second year in Toronto. cheapeats toronto 2003/04 is #1 best seller at Toronto's Cookbook Store, and last years edition was a 2002 best-seller.

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For more info contact pr@cheapeatsottawa.com