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Ottawa chef John Taylor closes Domus Cafe after 18 yearsOne of Ottawa oldest and most respected restaurants, John Taylor Domus Cafe in the ByWard Market, has closed after 18 years. been a rough couple of years and the finance end of it sucks, he said.resources ran out. This is a cash flow business. The stress of finances really affects your health. I could see it in my wife and I didn want that.With his wife, Sylvia Taylor, he also owns the 30 seat Taylor Genuine Food and Wine Bar in Old Ottawa South, which will continue.is alive and well, he said. Edwards is the chef and he doing a great job. I work there part of the time, too. I still have mortgage to pay. Marys, near Stratford, Ont., 18 years ago, has been credited with bringing the local food movement to Ottawa restaurants, training dozens of chefs along the way.was such a trailblazer in farm to table cooking I was devastated when I heard the news, said Stephen Beckta, owner of three Ottawa restaurants. added so much to our culinary landscape in Ottawa. I had some of my greatestmeals and have some of best memories of eating at Domus.John Taylor’s Domus Cafe the cooking was innovative, but it honoured intrinsic flavours and left a very strong sense of where you were. Domus tasted like Ottawa. It will be enormously missed.didn do Cheap Sunglasses it alone, that for sure, Taylor said. were lucky enough to attract good people. I always been trying to use local producers, but I told my staff to createwhat they want. Taylor had planned to expand into part of that space, addinganother 75 seats and rebranding his restaurant.would have gonedownscale a bit, made it a little bit funkier to attract that new generation. But I decided last week to close instead. It really came down to money. I out of it. I also don think it fair to keep going if the passion has gone out of it. I need to recharge. ZenKitchen, a well regarded vegan restaurant on Somerset Street West, also closed on Saturday after falling behind on tax payments.last couple of years were hard, but last winter was brutal, said Taylor. used to be that Wholesale Handbags tax margins were five to 10 per cent. Now you lucky to break even. I literally worked in the kitchen all by myself some nights.dining has suffered a lot in Ottawa, said the owner of the top rated Beckta, which is to expand this winter, reopeningin the former Friday Roast Beef House on Elgin Street. in Ottawa feel recessions later and longer than in other places, and we feeling it now.created this aura, this hipster idea, but it hard, hard work, he said as he dumped plastic file trays into a waste bin in front of his former restaurant. admire what the Wholesale Bags young guys are doing, the new places like Town and Supply and Demand. Ihope they notwondering what they got themselves into.was a real farmers market when Cheap Wholesale Sunglasses I came here. It isn any more.are a lot of factorsfor closing,but I just want to thank people for a long run. Thanks for believing in us and supporting us all those years. Duration is unknown. Expect delays.174 Quigley Hill to Trim174 closed from Quigley Hill to Trim due to a collision. Detour via Cameron, Old Montreal, Frank Kenny, Innes and Trim. Duration is unknown. DoolanRidgetop closed from Dunhaven to Thomas A. Doolan due to a flooding. Follow the signed detour. Duration is unknown. Doolan Dunrobin to WoodkiltonThomas A. Doolan closed from Dunrobin to Woodkilton due to a flooding. Follow signed detour. Duration is unknown. Avoid area.(MTO) 416 Roger Stevens to Fallowfield(MTO) 416 southbound reduced to 1 lane from Fallowfield to Century due to construction. Overnight and every day until noon, from Monday, July 21 to friday, July 25.