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Ottawa · 62 Sparks Street

A bank that learned to pour

Marble, brass, a 25-foot ceiling. We keep this pin because the building still behaves like a bank — including the vaults.

Hamachi crudo in a gold-rimmed bowl at Riviera Ottawa

Hamachi · Riviera, dineriviera.com

The official site still talks like a capital dining room: tartares and crudos, lobster spaghetti, steak frites, a bar that people actually fight for. We are not inventing a plate. We are saying you sit down here on purpose. The food is why the chair exists.

Riviera's long dining hall and brass bar in the former bank

Dining hall · Riviera, dineriviera.com

The vaults are a documented architecture feature, not a toilet rumor. One cellar. One set of communal washrooms. Wikipedia and the design press both say it. We still do not have a public photograph of that stall, so we will not fake one. Still not a washlet. Bidet unknown.

If you came for the brass bar, stay for the door that used to hold money. That is the pin.

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