Grace In the Kitchen

If you are looking for awesome cheese and a great selection with a very knowledgeable staff, this is your spot! I went in here with my elderly grandmother and she was completely flabbergasted (in a good way) about how amazing the service was! They let us try whatever cheese we wanted, and then of course we left with quite the spread. I’ve been back several times since. If we are headed to a party we will go in and buy whatever they recommend that day. Love it!

My go to store for anything kitchen and coffee related! I love that they have the Intelligentsia coffee beans!

If you like cooking food — or need inspiration to start cooking GO TO THIS STORE!
Its an amazing store in which you will find pretty much anything you need for your kitchen or even for a friends kitchen (great gift shopping place for sure). My go to place for kitchen gadgets in the west end of Ottawa. Just go in an wander around, but bring your $ because there will be something you will ‘need’ ;)
The other amazing section of this store is Serious Cheese (which is located inside the store but shoud almost have its own Unilocal listing). They have an unparallelled selection of cheeses — and they let you sample!!! I have my list of fav’s that I can only find here. I asked if they do cheese classes (because the staff are insanely knowledgeable about their products) and when I spoke to the owners apparently they are considering it… when they do I’ll change my review to 5 stars as this will then be my ideal destination :)

This place is awesome! I have never been in before, although my husband was in over the holidays (lucky me was the recipient!)
What an awesome shop! And HUGE! They have everything an upscale kitchen could need — from the tools to the groceries, including (but not limited to) spices — right down the pepper and salt mills, cheeses, chips, dishes, pots and pans, and top end coffee makers.
I will definitely be back to try out the coffee shop in the corner. You need the rest that refreshes (coffee) after a stroll through this shop. What was I waiting for?
They had some very good sales — leftovers from Christmas. I picked up a mug for myself (which had the design of a scarf and mittens. What can I say? I’m a knitter!) and one of those stoneware cookie molds which came with a recipe. This was on sale at a good price; I’ve seen it at double that elsewhere in the city. Did you know that there’s a difference in the mechanisms of a pepper and salt mills? Apparently the salt can rust and corrode a pepper mill, and the pepper is too hard for a salt mill. Whodathunk?!
I actually went in looking for coffee pots. The ones we have at work have been seriously used and abused. I’m also feeling the need for an espresso or latté machine, and was hoping I might find one of those nifty combo things here. Turns out that the design I’m thinking of is a bit passé. Too bad for me! However, the good coffee makers they have here are too good for work (read: expensive), and could almost be professional, like for coffee shops. So, I will have to keep shopping.
Yum. I’ve just gotta say this place was very inspiring!

I actually can’t beleive that i haven’t reviewed this place yet — truly a wicked little foodie shop tucked away in Kanata.
It’s a nice, little clean shop that has great fresh pastry’s and a coffee bar, truly one of the best cheese shops in otttawa. The back of the store features are large bank of coolers and freezers — lots of Gluten free items and a number of precooked meals… you gotta try the mac and cheese — it’s cha ching, but omg, it’s good.
The appliance and cookery section is fantastic with all the latest toys including Sous Vide Supreme’s and the Molecule R lineup.
This place is should be on every foodie list for getting their supplies.
enjoy.
review 6 of 30

Grace In The Kitchen, everyone refers to this store as the ultimate kitchen store in Ottawa, and people are 100% right. Whenever you walk in there you need to make sure you are ready to spend some serious coin, you just cannot resist the temptation, honestly it’s just not possible to walk in and not come out with a few dozen items.
However, I go to Grace In The Kitchen as often as I can, not for the gadgets or the food items.
I go for the coffee, yup! Kanata’s best kept secret, the coffee bar. They have a serious coffee machine, top of the line and it delivers an absolutely amazing espresso or just about any coffee they pull from the machine.
Not to mention that they use one of the top brands of coffee on the market by Intelligentsia. Both the owners and the staff serving you the coffee are well informed baristas. If they pull a coffee and they don’t like how it looks, they through it away and pull another, unlike a lot of coffee places that just pull the coffee and slap it on the counter for you to drink, good or bad. That to me is how a coffee should be served.
My favourite of the house is their Cubano, not a coffee blend but a coffee process. They add one scoop of coffee, mix a small amount of sugar and then add the next scoop of coffee. Then they pull the coffee and WOW what an amazing coffee.
The staff at Grace In The Kitchen take their time to explain why the do what they do and for a coffee snob like me, it s nice to see someone behind the counter who is well informed and takes their coffee seriously.

I’m always browsing this store to feed my inner Julia Child when it comes to working on my epic «Home French Cuisine.» I only reserve this store for my «must haves» as I find some things a little pricey, but without a doubt, Grace carries some of the best quality goods my «naked chef» eyes have ever seen. Last time, I went on the hunt for an oyster knife. Failing in every other store I’d been in, in Kanata, Grace was my last hope, and of course, was not dissapointed. Not only did they have exacly what I was looking for, they had a variety of different oyster knives (or shuckers if we want to get technical) which delighted me to no end. My better half was developing a nervous shifty eye as the wonderful clerk took a few out of the glass case for me to try in the palm of my hand, so of course, I went with the most expensive! Low and behold I LOVE my oyster knife and really came in handy Christmas and New Years when your trying to get your food out quickly!

My new favorite kitchen store. Has all the equipment I want and need. I’ll be a regular in there. A great addition to Kanata’s growing specialty shops.

Everything written before about Grace in the Kitchen is true — but the most important thing to know is that they have frozen Vij’s entrees.
sigh. I just might be moving back to Ottawa after all.

Like Jason D., I also walked by this place dozens of times, but never paid it much attention. I finally went in today as I was doing some Christmas shopping and I found a secret gold mine of Art-​is-​in-​Bakery bread, cheese, spices, fine chocolate, frozen pre-​made meals and other specialty foods. Especially since the Fresh Fruit Company closed in Old Ottawa South, I think this would be a welcomed resource for people with a refined taste, or who may just be entertaining that evening.
Of course, Grace in the Kitchen has lots of kitchen supplies. Possibly whatever you’re looking for since the store is fairly big. They have cookware, bakeware, barware, cleaning products, electrics, environmentally friendly products, espresso machines, flatware, gadgets, giftware, knives, stainless steel kitchen doodads, teapots, coffee pots, tablewear and thermometres. Since the list I just constructed was in alphabetical order, clearly I had to resort to the store’s website to remember everything I saw today. It’s that extensive and my memory isn’t what it used to be.

It’s funny how you don’t notice a store until the need for such store happens in your life. I sort of noticed Grace in the Kitchen on various shopping incursions along Bank St., but it wasn’t until the accident that I really saw it. The accident I am talking about was when my wife broke all of our wine glasses. Yes, all of them. We had done some drinking over a few days and had not yet done the dishes. All of our wine glasses were on the counter next to the sink. My wife swung her arm around and accidentally knocked all of them over into the sink. Crrrrash! So, rather than drink out of tumblers, we went wine glass shopping. We happened to be driving along Bank and spotted (or re-​spotted) Grace in the Kitchen. What a serendipitous find! This store is great — they truly have everything a kitchen needs: pots, pans, baking tins, spices, seasonings, bar supplies, forks & knives & spoons, etc. I am not up on all things kitcheny, but Grace in the Kitchen seems to stock only the newest and best gadgets and goods. So, don’t expect rock-​bottom prices, but at least you are getting top-​notch gear. It is Bank St., so parking is strictly street. But, you can park for free for an hour (not during rush hour). Bön appetit!