About Us - Community Involvement

As a locally owned and operated business, we pride ourselves on our community involvement. The Courtyard Restaurant participates in the following community events and is a member of many local organizations such as…

  • Savour Ottawa
    The Courtyard is a proud member of Savour Ottawa.  Savour Ottawa works to develop and promote Ottawa and area as a premier, year-round culinary destination, with robust offerings of local foods and experiences for both locals and visitors to the area.Food Service members must purchase at minimum 15% of their food costs, or $25,000, directly from local farmers.

  • Bon Appetit Ottawa 
    As a founding member/participant of this event, the Courtyard Restaurant takes great pride in supporting Bon Appetit Ottawa every year. We encourage you to join us at this “event with a heart of gold” which has donated over $100,000.00 to local charities.

  • ByWard Market Winterlude Stew Cook-Off  
    Great fun – and great stew! - is had by all at this event and the proceeds are donated to the Ottawa Center for Crime Prevention.

  • Tulipfestival
    The Courtyard supports the annual Tulipfestival as a “Friend of the Festival” sponsor.

  • Winterlude
    North America’s greatest winter festival, Winterlude is 3 exciting weekends of winter fun. The Courtyard Restaurant supports the festival as a sponsor and is an “Official Winterlude Restaurant”.

  • Ottawa Tourism – Member
  • Meeting Professionals International, Ottawa Chapter – Member

 

In addition to these events and memberships, we support over 50 different charities and organizations through donations and in-kind sponsorships such as:

  • Breast Cancer Action Survivors Walk
  • Boys and Girls Club
  • Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind
  • Canadian Cancer Society
  • Operation Go Home
  • CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario)
  • Salvation Army Caring Hands
    And many more….

If you would like to have the Courtyard Restaurant participate in your event, please contact us and keep in mind the following guidelines…

  • participation / sponsorship for any event requires a formal, written request from the organization, received preferably by fax (613)241-5738
  • we prefer to support local events
  • although we would love to say yes to every request, we realistically cannot due to budget constraints or previous commitments
  • please allow at least 30 days for us to respond to your request