Ottawa Shops in Downtown
Find the best shops in Downtown, Ottawa.
Fandom II
Ottawa's most famous RPG and D&D shop on Laurier Avenue with basement gaming tables, regular RPG events, and a community bulletin board.
All Books
A beloved used bookstore on Rideau Street packed floor-to-ceiling with secondhand books. Known for its remarkable owner who can locate any title from memory across the towering stacks.
Barely Bruised Books
A charming independent bookstore on the second floor of a Sandy Hill building, Barely Bruised Books carries over 80,000 new and used titles across all genres, with a personally curated feel and the largest Indigenous book section in Ontario.
The Snow Goose
Family-owned Inuit and First Nations art gallery on Sparks Street since 1963 — soapstone sculptures, prints, carvings, and Indigenous jewellery.
L.A. Pai Gallery
Contemporary art jewellery and sculpture gallery in ByWard Market since 2000 — ceramics, glass, metal, textile, and mixed media by Canadian artists.
Galerie St-Laurent + Hill
Canadian contemporary art gallery in ByWard Market since 1997 with paintings, photography, sculpture, and 40+ years of collection advisory.
Wallack Galleries
One of Canada's oldest commercial art galleries since 1936 in Centretown — figurative and abstract contemporary paintings, sculpture, and graphics.
Patrick McGahern Books
One of Ottawa's oldest antiquarian bookstores, operating since 1969 in the ByWard Market. Specializes in rare and collectible books, maps, and prints on Canadian history, Arctic exploration, and Irish literature.
Galerie d'art Jean-Claude Bergeron
Contemporary Canadian and international art in a heritage Victorian building near ByWard Market since 1992 — abstract expressionism, mixed media, and woodcuts.