About Us
Ottawa’s Local Yes-taurant
Good Eats Cafe
Good Eats is a cafe located at 207 Bell St. North in Centretown West Ottawa known for its home-made style healthy meals. We are your local yes-taurant meaning we offer a variety of meals at a reasonable price, all while catering to and making changes to fit your dietary needs. Good Eats serves up a weekly changing menu of fresh sandwiches, salads, dinners, late night snacks and drinks, sweet treats, breakfast, and baked goods in their patio, in their cafe or for take out. We cater to meat-lovers, vegans, and vegetarians, while also serving gluten-free options.
Meet Our Team
Meet Karen Marcotte
Owner of Good Eats
A former mechanical engineer and IT project manager whose lifelong dream it was to run a café is finally bringing her creativity and ingenuity to the restaurant business. Although she has been practicing recipes on her family and friends for years with great success, she never had the courage to throw caution to the wind to open up a café. When she was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in late 2016 however, she decided that life was too short, she dodged one bullet and thought she should just bite the bullet and make her dreams come true. During her recovery, she spent her time on the couch planning, gathering recipes, doing market research and learning about the restaurant business. She fell in love with Good Eats and the business philosophy, so she bought it in January 2018. She has been impressing Ottawa locals with her delicious recipe ideas and positive spirit. Karen and her team love serving you meals, drinks and baked goods and want to keep making Good Eats the café where you can enjoy a sweet break from the grind ☕️
Meet Shawn Marsh
Chef at Good Eats
Shawn is the Chef at Good Eats and comes with a vast amount of industry cooking experience. Shawn shares an appreciation for using fresh, wholesome ingredients to create dishes with a mixture of flavours in each bite. He is vigilant about cleanliness and following processes, which works well to ensure that our meals are delicious and of the highest quality each time they are made. He is super friendly to everyone who comes in and makes an effort to learn everyone’s names.
Meet Saliha
Baker at Good Eats
Saliha spends her time in the Good Eats Bakery kitchen making all the breads and baked goods that the locals love. She puts so much care into constructing and baking the breads, scones and other baked goods as it is a real sense to pride for her. She has been baking since she was a little girl in Algeria and brings all that she learned there to the Good Eats kitchen for our customers (and us) to enjoy.
Meet Cassandra
Front-of-House attendant
Cassandra is our Front-of-House attendant who is a grab-the-bull-by-the-horns type of woman. When there is something to do or some opportunity to please a customer, she does it. She has developed many cocktail recipes based on the tastes of our customers and even makes in-house ginger beer for use in cocktails or to sooth a sore stomach! Cassandra works mostly in the evenings so she can be home during the day with her adorable little girl, so come in sometime, meet Cassandra and have her make you a cocktail.
Meet Trevor
Cook at Good Eats
Trevor is our afternoon and evening cook. He can follow a recipe or create something from scratch for you. Have some food intolerances or preferences? Want a slight alteration to the published menu? Trevor can work with the ingredients we have to make something that is sure to please and follow your preferences.
Good Eats is CLOSED ON VICTORIA MONDAY