About OH!

A daughter and her mother from Kharkiv,
cooking in Ottawa.

Anastasiia Stepanenko started OH! Catering in the summer of 2026, and she runs it with her mother, Nataliia. Both of them came to Ottawa from Ukraine.

Anastasiia Stepanenko in a red apron, whisking batter in a large steel pot in a commercial kitchen.
Anastasiia whisking batter for the UAFest 2026 stand, 9 September 2026. Photo: Nataliia Stepanenko.
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Where they come from

Kharkiv, Kyiv, Stuttgart,
then Ottawa.

Anastasiia is from Kharkiv, in north-east Ukraine, close to the Russian border. When the full-scale invasion began, the family moved to Kyiv. She remembers the constant air-raid sirens telling everyone to get to a basement or, failing that, a subway station.

Her father then moved the family out of Ukraine. They lived for a year in a rented house in Stuttgart, where she finished high school, and in 2023 they came to Canada and settled in Ottawa. Her mother, Nataliia, made the same journey and started over here too.

Education was my top priority, so I’m quite sure I wouldn’t have started a business at such a young age if life hadn’t given me this push.

Anastasiia, to Edible Ottawa, May 2026
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The Polar Bear

A restaurant with a cuisine on every floor,
planned at four.

At four, she told her parents she was leaving for Paris to open a restaurant. It would serve every kind of food, and it would be called the Polar Bear.

I had this huge idea that I’d build a skyscraper and every floor would have different cuisine; French, Chinese, Ukrainian and so on.

Anastasiia, to Edible Ottawa, May 2026

In Ottawa, the next step came through her mother. Nataliia took a management position at Rideau Gymnastics in Kanata, came up with themed camps for children, and chose her daughter to coach the cooking camp.

She told me I would be the coach of the cooking camp and after the first summer, I decided I loved it.

Anastasiia, to Edible Ottawa, May 2026

Soon after, Anastasiia rented space in the same building and opened Cookiddoo Studio, cooking and baking classes for children aged four to 15. She registered it at 17 and paid for it herself. She also takes short courses at Le Cordon Bleu, in pastry, French cuisine and culinary fundamentals.

Edible Ottawa told her story in “Cooking with Confidence” by Sonia Mendes, May 2026, and in July 2026 her studio was on CTV’s Your Morning Ottawa.

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Cooking for a crowd

Who she has cooked for,
and once as OH!

OH! is new, and so is its record. Anastasiia cooked the first two events below under her studio’s name. The third was OH!’s own stand at the festival.

  1. 13 June 2025

    Ukrainian Business Network evening, Invest Ottawa

    Catering for the network’s business evening in Ottawa, from Anastasiia and Cookiddoo Studio.

  2. February 2026

    Multicultural food fair, Perth, Ontario

    Ukrainian food for a charity fair: more than 50 litres of borscht and more than 200 pampushky.

  3. 13 September 2026

    The OH! stand at UAFest 2026, Riverside Park, Carleton Place

    The first day OH! cooked under its own name: borscht, varenyky, the Ukrainian Plate, nalysnyky, medovik, kartoshka cake and kvas.

Folded crepes cut into triangles on a paper plate, with tubs of cottage cheese and sour cream, on a green tablecloth.
Crepes on the Cookiddoo Studio table at the Perth food fair, February 2026. Photo: Cookiddoo Studio.
Guests, seen from behind, queue at a red tent beside the OH! Catering banner, in a park.
The OH! stand at UAFest 2026, Carleton Place, 13 September 2026. Some faces are blurred. Photo: Nataliia Stepanenko.
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OH!, since summer 2026

Mother and daughter,
one table at a time.

A restaurant business is what Anastasiia has wanted since she was small. In the summer of 2026 she started OH! Catering with her mother, and the two of them now cook for grown-up celebrations while Cookiddoo carries on as the children’s studio.

OH can mean a lot of things.

  • Open-hearted hosting. The point of a table is connection, so the food is laid out to be reached for and shared.
  • One considered table. Food people recognise, composed so that everyone at the table finds their own thing.
  • Off the host’s plate. The planning, the shopping, the prep, the setup and the styling all sit with us, so the last hour before guests arrive belongs to you.

And then there is the simplest meaning: OH! — the reaction we are designing for.

Every event starts with four details: the date, the guest count, the neighbourhood and what the table is doing — grazing before dinner, standing in for the meal, or carrying a brunch through the morning. Those four answers set the format, the quantities and the length of table you will need.

OH! is a service-area business in Ottawa. Food is prepared in a rented commercial kitchen in Ottawa, then delivered and composed on the table in your space. There is no storefront and no public address. We arrive with the food, the boards and the serving pieces, build the display on your surface, and leave it guest-ready. The format suits roughly 12 to 50 guests in houses, condo party rooms, back gardens, community halls and offices.

Two to four weeks is a comfortable planning window for a styled table. December dates, long-weekend Saturdays and shower season fill earliest, and short-notice weekday events are always worth asking about.

We answer every enquiry within one business day, and the reply names the next step and what it takes to hold the date.

  • A tall stack of freshly made crepes on a dark baking tray.Crepes for the nalysnyky
  • Crepes browning in cast-iron pans on a commercial range, with a finished stack on a tray behind.Crepes on the range
  • Four crepe pans on a commercial range, batter just poured into three of them.Four pans at once
Cooking for the UAFest 2026 stand in the rented kitchen, 10 September 2026. Photos: Nataliia Stepanenko.
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What it costs

The numbers, up front.
Before you ask for them.

Styled tables start at $42 per guest, plus applicable taxes, and the working range runs $42–$65 per guest, with the top of it being tables that replace a meal. Your quote is built from four things: guest count, table format, how long the event runs and the setup the room needs, and it separates food, styling and delivery so each part of the number is visible.

The event minimum is $600 before delivery and taxes. Delivery and on-site styling are $45 within 25 km of the kitchen. A worked example and the full deposit, final-count and cancellation terms sit on the pricing page.

We serve the City of Ottawa, Ontario — Kanata, Stittsville, Nepean, Barrhaven, Westboro, the central neighbourhoods, Orléans, Manotick and Riverside South among them. Delivery and on-site styling are $45 within 25 km of the kitchen. Past 25 km the charge is quoted for your address, and either way the figure is on the quote before you book.

A downtown condo with a booked service elevator, a Kanata driveway with a kitchen island waiting, and a community hall with a two-hour rental block before the guests arrive are three different builds. Tell us which one you have and the setup plan comes back with the quote. Our Ottawa service areas page goes through the setup neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

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Straight answers

What we can do,
and what we cannot.

OH! is new, and the first tables for Ottawa hosts are still ahead, so there are no reviews here yet. The photographs of Anastasiia, the kitchen and the UAFest stand on this page are real, and each caption says when it was taken. The styled tables elsewhere on the site are generated pictures of the style we build toward.

If you ate at our UAFest stand or ordered from the festival kitchen, leave a few words. They go straight to the kitchen, and with your permission they can appear on this site under your first name.

OH! works out of a commercial kitchen in Ottawa that we rent by the hour, so the premises permit for it is held by the facility. There is no liability policy in OH!'s own name today, so a venue-specific certificate of insurance is something we cannot supply. Venues in Ottawa routinely ask suppliers for one, so raise it with us early and you get a straight answer for your date and venue in writing.

Share dietary preferences and allergy information when you enquire. We plan suitable choices and label the table clearly. For severe or life-threatening allergies we talk through cross-contact before you book, and we cannot guarantee allergen-free preparation on a shared table.

Start here

Tell us the date.
We will tell you what it takes.

Call +1 613 710-0554 with your date, guest count and neighbourhood, or send the same details through the form and the quote comes back with the setup plan attached.

Plan your table

After UAFest 2026

The festival kitchen, delivered home.

Frozen varenyky by the bag from our stand. Order on the site and we bring them to your door, free in Kanata.

  • Varenyky, frozen bag$45
  • Two bags$80
  • The box of three$110

Free delivery in Kanata · elsewhere in Ottawa from $50

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