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Ottawa's Best: Craft Beer Destination

For restaurants, pubs, taprooms, or breweries where craft beer selection, house beer, rotating taps, or brewery culture is a major reason to go.

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Ottawa's Best: Craft Beer Destination

Best Of · Ottawa, ON
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Craft Beer Destination

22 spots make the list in Ottawa · ranked by Restaurantica's craft beer destination scoring evaluation

8.3
Average Score
9.0
Top Score
22/196
Restaurants That Qualify
Leading the list:Braumeister Bierhalle· 9.0

Outstanding

Score 9.0+ • 8 restaurants
1

Braumeister Bierhalle

9.4
Bavarian · Wellington West / Hintonburg · $$

Braumeister reads first as a brewery-backed beer hall: locally produced craft beer sits beside German and Austrian pub food, with pretzels, Currywurst, schnitzel, and shared seating all supporting a beer-led visit.

2

Flora Hall Brewing

8.7
Craft Brewery · Bank Street / Centretown & Glebe · $$

Beer is not an add-on here: Flora Hall brews on site, keeps core styles and newer releases in play, and builds the food menu around lingering rounds rather than quick pints. The tap list has enough range for hop drinkers, malt drinkers, and non-alcoholic orders.

3

Broadhead Brewing Company

8.3
Craft Brewery · Orléans Town Centre

Broadhead earns this card through the beer program itself: eight Classics, a rotating 174 Taproom Series, and a taproom built around what the brewery makes. The room reads as a beer-first visit, with barbecue and events adding reasons to stay longer.

4

Brew Revolution

9.2
Craft Brewery · Kanata Centrum · $$

Beer is the reason the room exists: Brew Revolution brings house-made pours, guest taps, cider, wine, mixed drinks, and a taproom built for tasting. The food and event calendar work around that beer-first centre rather than sitting beside it.

5

Tooth and Nail Brewing Company

9.0
Brewpub · Wellington West / Hintonburg · $$

Tooth and Nail is a beer-first address with enough range to reward focused drinking: pilsner, stout, saison, pale ale, IPA, Kellerpils, and seasonal pours all have a place. The food menu supports that purpose instead of distracting from it.

6

Orleans Brewing Co.

8.6
Craft Brewery · Orléans Town Centre

Beer is the reason the room makes sense. The lineup has a flagship hazy IPA, a lagered ale, a big IIPA, a sour, and a maple red ale, while the kitchen gives those pours enough food support to keep the visit from feeling like a tasting-only stop.

7

Bicycle Craft Brewery

8.3
Craft Brewery · Trainyards Retail District

Bicycle Craft Brewery is strongest as a beer-first stop, with a tap room built around house pours, flights, can pours, and an online beer shop. The appeal is the range of house-brewed beer in a compact Industrial Avenue setting.

8

Dominion City Brewing Co.

9.0
Craft Brewery · Trainyards Retail District · $$

Dominion City leads with beer: Sunsplit, Town & Country, and a current taproom list deep enough to make the brewery itself the main reason to go.

Excellent

Score 8.0-8.9 • 9 restaurants
9

Nita Beer Company

8.4
Craft Brewery · Merivale Road Central

Nita's strongest identity is the brewery taproom itself: house draughts like OPA - Balanced IPA, Ten12 - Blonde Ale, 5 Fingers - Brown Ale, and Perfectum - Stout sit beside a food menu built for drinking in.

10

Beyond the Pale Brewing Company

8.8
Craft Brewery · Wellington West / Hintonburg · $$

Sixteen taps, year-round pours, rotating seasonals, and a retail beer identity make the brewery itself a central reason to visit.

11

Spark Beer & Pizza

8.9
Craft Brewery · Chinatown (Somerset Street West)

Spark's beer program is not a side list: the room is a brewery first, with hoppy, sour, Belgian-style, foeder-aged and draft pours tied to local malt, hops, yeast and award history.

12

Covered Bridge Brewing

8.4
Craft Brewery

Covered Bridge is strongest when treated as a beer stop first: the current board has hazy IPA, blonde ales, kolsch-style pours, barrel-aged strength and darker tap-list territory, with cans and flights giving the beer program more than one way to show itself.

13

The Manx Pub

8.9
British Pub · Elgin Street Corridor · $$

The tap list is built for drinkers who want range without leaving the pub's food behind. Ontario producers sit alongside established imports, making a pint and a Furlonger Club feel like a complete reason to stop rather than a prelude to somewhere else.

14

Wellington Gastropub

8.6
Gastro Pub · Wellington West / Hintonburg · $$$

The beer list is broad, current and Ontario-heavy, giving Wellington the drinks backbone a gastropub needs to feel convincing.

15

The Brig Pub

9.0
Gastro Pub · ByWard Market · $$

The tap list gives the pub side a clear reason to lead the visit. The Brig Pub House Lager sits beside Ontario and regional names from Beau's, Beyond the Pale, Cameron's, Perth, Steam Whistle, Sidelaunch, and Waupoos cider.

16

The Third

9.2
Canadian · Wellington West / Hintonburg · $

Beer is part of The Third's all-day rhythm, alongside a menu built for burgers, sandwiches and long catch-ups. The drinks program gives an ordinary meal an easy evening extension without changing the room's relaxed neighbourhood character.

17

Hunter's Public House

8.7
Pub Fare · South Keys / Bank Street South · $$

Local and regional taps are part of the draw, with Big Rig, Stray Dog, Broadhead, Dominion City, Perth, Ashton, and cider labels giving the bar side real purpose.

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