The story behind The Daily Slice
Claire Hutton opened The Daily Slice in the spring of 2018 after spending four years as a prep chef at a farm-to-table bistro in Stratford, Ontario. She came back to Ottawa with a secondhand Berkel slicer, a list of suppliers she trusted, and a very specific idea of what a neighbourhood deli should feel like: somewhere you could walk in on a Tuesday morning, pick up something genuinely good for lunch, and maybe grab a jar of something interesting for the weekend. The space on Hintonburg's Wellington Street West was a former hardware store, and the original pressed-tin ceiling is still up there if you look.