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For most businesses, it would have been publicity on a silver platter.
But for Ottawa’s hipster Union Local 613 restaurant, a nomination in a magazine’s search for “Canada’s top bar” was about as welcome as a Saturday-afternoon freezer meltdown.
After the small Somerset Street West eatery voiced objections, Air Canada’s inflight enRoute magazine removed Union Local 613 from an online list of about 100 favourite bars across Canada. The winner will be selected by readers and named in the magazine’s December issue.
“We took exception to the fact that they felt that it was a privilege to be associated with their brands without asking us if we wanted our brand to be associated with that,” Union co-owner Ivan Gedz said Wednesday.
Gedz said the restaurant would have let its name stand if enRoute and contest co-sponsor Rickard’s, a beer brand from Molson-Coors, agreed to make a donation to the Ottawa Food Bank.
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“We said to them, if they donate 1,000 bucks to the food bank they could keep using our brand, and they got back to us and said, ‘No thank you,’ ” Gedz said.
The food bank is a favourite cause of the restaurant, which has a new-age, foody-socialist vibe with communal seating and a “locavorism” philosophy.
Contest organizers said they were surprised by the request. Five other Ottawa-area bars remain on the list: Zoé’s Lounge in the Fairmont Château Laurier, the Albion Rooms at the Novotel hotel, Trio on Richmond Road, the Hintonburg Public House, and Wakefield’s Black Sheep Inn.
rbostelaar@ottawacitizen.com
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But for Ottawa’s hipster Union Local 613 restaurant, a nomination in a magazine’s search for “Canada’s top bar” was about as welcome as a Saturday-afternoon freezer meltdown.
After the small Somerset Street West eatery voiced objections, Air Canada’s inflight enRoute magazine removed Union Local 613 from an online list of about 100 favourite bars across Canada. The winner will be selected by readers and named in the magazine’s December issue.
“We took exception to the fact that they felt that it was a privilege to be associated with their brands without asking us if we wanted our brand to be associated with that,” Union co-owner Ivan Gedz said Wednesday.
Gedz said the restaurant would have let its name stand if enRoute and contest co-sponsor Rickard’s, a beer brand from Molson-Coors, agreed to make a donation to the Ottawa Food Bank.
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“We said to them, if they donate 1,000 bucks to the food bank they could keep using our brand, and they got back to us and said, ‘No thank you,’ ” Gedz said.
The food bank is a favourite cause of the restaurant, which has a new-age, foody-socialist vibe with communal seating and a “locavorism” philosophy.
Contest organizers said they were surprised by the request. Five other Ottawa-area bars remain on the list: Zoé’s Lounge in the Fairmont Château Laurier, the Albion Rooms at the Novotel hotel, Trio on Richmond Road, the Hintonburg Public House, and Wakefield’s Black Sheep Inn.
rbostelaar@ottawacitizen.com
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