Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom October 28-31, Sidewalk Beershop in Waterloo is having a seasonal celebration — and cheersing to the further restaurant re-opening […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe popular breakfast Eggs Benedict is a unique, sort of self-reflexive dish: it’s essentially eggs with an egg sauce. And […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the first time in a very long time, I visited a large restaurant that, while it wasn’t yet at […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite the move to a new stage of re-opening, or perhaps because of it, many local food businesses have experienced […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Garland double-deck oven, standing 170 centimetres and weighing 570 kilograms, sits imposingly in Reeghan Peister’s newly renovated basement kitchen. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesWaterloo Region’s annual beery festival Oktoberfest didn’t really happen this year (nor did it in Munich), but as October wanes, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s the middle of October, and while the weather might be unseasonably warm at the moment, there’s some grey and […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesI have a very old, bulging-at-the-seams book of notes and recipes from the restaurant that, at once, makes me smile […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSeveral years ago, I listened to a speaker and environmental and social activist, Barton Seaver, in Guelph. He was talking […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYeah, so it’s great! Full stadiums, arenas and vomitoria of fans moving about. No, I mean it: it’s terrific that […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post for a few dining out selections is brought to you by the letter “J.” That includes dishes by […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesI believe there is a special place in hell for people who put stickers on fruit. This is more than […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn update: October 6 is National Beer Day in Canada, so here’s a look at some fun beer names from […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs we stroll the pathway toward the kitchen garden at Langdon Hall Country House Hotel and Spa, chef Jason Bangerter […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Christopher Columbus invaded what would become North America a few hundred years ago, he was hoping to find highly […]