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Dining Out: Dhruvees offers welcome upscale spin on South Asian dishes – by Peter Hum Source:ottawacitizen.com The Beechwood Avenue restaurant is the vision made real of Ottawa-based, India-born entrepreneur Donald Wingell, who worked for years as a manager at deluxe hotels in Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia and Singapore. Dhruvees 18 Beechwood Ave., 613-744-7888, dhruvees.com Open: Tuesday to Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Monday Prices: main courses between $20 and $32 Access: steps and ramp to front door There are two kinds of people in the world. First, there are those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty while ripping off the shells of cooked crustaceans so as to feast on their sweet, toothsome flesh, even if it means appearing embarrassingly primal in front of your sophisticated dining companions. Then there are those who would rather not. Diners from both camps should be happy at Dhruvees, which opened in early February in New Edinburgh. ...