Reading Time: 2 minutesWooden Boat Food Company#1-20 Hurst AvenueKitchener, ON   N2G 2Z7https://www.wbfood.ca/ A veteran of the local food-and-beverage scene and a waiter at the […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Grand Trunk Saloon30 Ontario Street South,Kitchener, ON N2G 1X2(519) 578-8282 [Previously posted] Among its other features that run during […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes[Previously published] I get to talk to many chefs, and whenever I ask what they like to eat in their […]

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: 2 minutesOmni Palace247 King Street NorthWaterloo, ON   N2J 2Y8(519) 208-6288www.omni-palace.com Update:It is unfortunate because I (and others) like their food, but […]

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: 4 minutesFull Circle Grocery and Bulk has recently moved to a smart new store at 16 King Street East, Kitchener, a […]

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 […]